Archive for June 30th, 2007

1776 (1972)

Saturday, June 30th, 2007

This is a revolution, dammit! We’re going to have to offend somebody!

1776

If the rest of American history would have had such great musical numbers, I might have gotten better grades. Okay, this adaptation of the hit Broadway play wasn’t exactly letter-perfect history but it is remarkably faithful to the facts for, you know, a musical. It’s also extremely entertaining if you allow for its stage bound origins.

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