"The production is instead so overpumped and overplayed as to be hardly comprehensible is the result of a fundamental misunderstanding of the musical, which is plenty complicated as written."
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"Short of lightning-fast rap battles, if anything can make a group of dead white men talking interesting, it's the knowledge that we're really watching a lively, fresh generation of actors making their names known and their voices heard."
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"You leave the production newly amazed by the radical contingency of history as we know it...The spirit of ’76 still haunts America, for better and for worse."
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"I find myself deeply moved by the collective work to bring out the beauty and joy in such a fundamentally corrupted musical, and I’m glad to have witnessed it. I want other people to witness it."
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"Stern looks do not, politically and artistically, get us very far, but great musical moments still have power: they win the signatures; they rally the troops; they ring the bell."
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"In truth, the conceit of the production doesn’t add any significant extrinsic meanings to the musical."
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"At its best, the Roundabout’s production of '1776' ... shakes off any undue weight of expectation, treating the audience to classic musical theater songs sung by voices that have never before been given access."
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"This '1776' allows audience to witness a history anew through an outsider’s eye, as it reframes the classic Trumbull painting in a different light...one that inspires, yes, but one that also continues to haunt in its incompleteness."
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