The run dates incomplete
- Opened
- March 16, 1969
- Closed
- —
- Performances
- 1,217
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Richard Rodgers Theatre
Of the 603 productions we hold that opened in the 1960s and record a performance count, this is the 14th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
No closing date. 5,632 of 13,459 productions have none, and at this distance that means the ending was never recorded rather than that the run went on.
Other stagings of 1776 3 more that season
| 1970 | Noël Coward Theatre Transfer | |
| 1997 | Revival Revival | 333 perf. |
| 2022 | American Airlines Theatre Revival · Jeffrey L. Page & Diane Paulus | 105 perf. |
Who was in it6 named
6 of these 6 names have a person record behind them and link to one. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Characters26 roles recorded
William Daniels John Adams
Howard da Silva Benjamin Franklin
Paul Hecht John Dickinson
Clifford David Edward Rutledge
Ken Howard Thomas Jefferson
David Ford John Hancock
Betty Buckley Martha Jefferson
Virginia Vestoff Abigail Adams
Ralston Hill Charles Thomson
Ron Holgate Richard Henry Lee
William Duell Andrew McNair
Roy Poole Stephen Hopkins
David Vosburgh Roger Sherman
Henry Le Clair Robert Livingston
Bruce MacKay Thomas McKean
Jonathan Moore Dr. Lyman Hall
Philip Polito Samuel Chase
Emory Bass James Wilson
Duane Bodin George Read
Robert Gaus Caesar Rodney
Ronald Kross Lewis Morris
Edmund Lyndeck The Rev. John Witherspoon
Dal Richards Josiah Bartlett
Charles Rule Joseph Hewes
Scott Jarvis Courier
B.J Slater Leather Apron
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- Peter Hunt
- Choreographer
- Onna White
- Orchestrations
- Eddie Sauter
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Tony Awards 3 from 5 nominations
| Best Musical | Won |
Recordings 3 held for the work
None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against 1776, and nothing in the record says which production any of them documents. Closing that join is the point of this catalogue and it is not closed yet.
Around this production
Composer Sherman Edwards was a former high school history teacher who spent years writing the show. President Nixon, a fan of the musical, requested a special White House performance but asked that the song 'Cool, Cool, Considerate Men' -- which mocked conservative congressmen -- be cut. Producer Jack Warner also removed it from the 1972 film at Nixon's request.
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- Which of the 3 recordings of 1776 document this run, if any.
- When it closed.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.