Musical Mondays: 1776

1776 is a musical starring our Founding Fathers, chronicling the story of the creation of the Declaration of Independence. Clearly this is a plot that lends itself to catchy tunes!

I want to be Ben Franklin if I ever get the chance to be in this show. I've seen the show done in Boston with Mark and Karen. After seeing the show Karen and I became obsessed with the show and the movie (which we borrowed from Peter for an extended period of time... SALT PETER JOHN!!)

The craziest song from the show would have to be the Lees of Old Virginia. And leave it to YouTube to have THE BEST version of this song I have ever seen. Let me set the scene in case you haven't seen the show (shame on you). John Adams (who is basically the lead role in the show) with the help of Ben Franklin convinces Richard Henry Lee of Virginia to leave Philadelphia and go convince Virginia to propose a move for independence (since everyone hates John Adams and Massachusetts). This video stars some enormous fat guy as Richard Henry Lee--which really works in my opinion. The video gets going about 2 minutes into the clip and gets REALLY GOOD towards the end.



"Abigail what's in those kegs?"

SALT PETER JOHHHHN!