March 19, 2026 2:03 pm
By Sherman Edwards and Peter Stone
Before there was Hamilton, there was 1776 – a musical as erudite as it is witty. “It’s hot as hell in Philadelphia…” and the fractious members of the Continental Congress are fed up with John Adams and his radical ideas about American independence during the broiling summer of 1776. It takes the combined wiles of Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson to work on the Congress and push for a vote on a Declaration of Independence from Great Britain.
