1776 TALKS BACK!

Immediately after the Sunday, October 27th, 2024, matinee performance of the musical 1776, the 27 cast members lined up on a row of chairs that filled the length of the stage, and participated in a question-and-answer session with the audience. Audience members were fascinated to hear stories about the real people that the play’s characters were based on, the result of research done by the individual cast members. For example, they learned that we have Judge Wilson (played by Dan Kane) to thank for the Electoral College, or the cost of actually buying a slave, or that couriers (ours was played by Rowland Hazard) were most often teen-age boys, or how Independence Hall looks in real life (the space is not all that big.). Every cast member had an interesting story to tell about their character, sometimes things alluded to in the play (like Abigail Adams' activism) and sometimes not (like the fact that Jefferson's wife, Martha, only lived a few more years).

Thank you to all that joined us for our production of 1776 and for this wonderful opportunity to meet our patrons!