July 4th Casa de Mousepod Screening©

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I love 1776 - a musical that stops being a musical for a huge chunk of its middle - and a show that actually creates palpable suspense as to its incredibly well-known outcome.

I've been in three stage productions of 1776 - twice as South Carolina's Rutledge, and once as John Adams. I can recite pretty much the whole thing. The movie stands as a rare example of preserving almost the entire Broadway cast, and keeping close to line by line parity with the original script. (I should refer to it as the original book, but that's such a confusing term.)