A little off topicŠ but I can't help but comment.
While Vincent Canby and Roger Ebert didn't care for the film version of
"1776", I have always loved the musical. It is, after all, a musical, not
a documentary. And it won several major Tony and Drama Desk awards.
I've always found the music quite engaging, from the epistolary duet
between Adams and his wife, to the implication of the northern colonies in
the slave trade ("Molasses to Rum"), an amazing anti-war song "Momma Look
Sharp" (it was the late 1960s) and the anthem of the conservatives "Cool
Considerate Men"Š
It was unfortunate that Cool Considerate Men was cut from the film but I
understand it has been restored in later releases.
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deg farrelly, Media Librarian
Arizona State University Libraries
Hayden Library C1H1
P.O. Box 871006
Tempe, Arizona 85287-1006
Phone: 602.332.3103
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