 1776 Sheet (Vocal Selections)
 1776 Film Version on DVD
 1776 Broadway Cast Recording
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1776 The Musical is a depiction of the history leading up to the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
This is the only musical written by Sherman Edwards. He was primarily a history teacher, and spent 7 years researching before he began to write. The book is often toted as being one of the best musical scripts ever written.
Audition Preparation Suggestions for 1776
This show contains many male roles and very few female roles. Almost no dance ability is required. |
- John Adams
- Representative from Massachusetts. Obnoxious, disliked by the congress. Fighting emphatically for independence. William Daniels type.
- Abigail Adams (Mezzo, 40s)
- John's vibrant wife.
- Benjamin Franklin
- crusty and sagacious, suffers from gout
- John Dickinson of Pennsylvania
- hawkish and determined
- Wilson of Pennsylvania
- sycophantic
- Rutledge (legit voice)
- young and cock-sure
- Richard Henry Lee of Virginia
- egocentric aristocrat
- Martha Jefferson (20s)
- Thomas' lovely wife.
- Roger Sherman of Connecticut
- a preoccupied loner
- Livingston
- decent
- McNair (the Congressional custodian), John Hancock (President of the Congress), Charles Thomson (Secretary to the Congress), Thomas Jefferson (Wrote the Declaration of Independence), George Washington (Commander of Army of the United Colonies), Josiah Bartlett of New Hampshire, George Read of Delaware, Robert Livingston of New York, Caesar Rodney of Delaware, Rev. John Witherspoon of New Jersey, Stephen Hopkins of Rhode Island, Dr. Lyman Hall of Georgia, Colonel Thomas McKean of Delaware
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- Sit Down, John (Delegates)
- Piddle, Twiddle and Resolve (John)
- Till Then (John & Abigail)
- The Lees of Old Virginia (Richard Lee)
- But Mr. Adams (Delegates)
- Yours, Yours, Yours (John & Abigail)
- He Plays The Violin (Martha)
- Cool, Cool Considerate Men (Dickinson & Conservatives)
- Momma Look Sharp
 (The Courier)
- The Egg (Jefferson, Adams, & Franklin)
- Molasses To Rum (Rutledge)
- Compliments (McNair)
- Is Anybody There? (John)
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