BROADWAY REVIEW: ‘1776′ is at war with its own material
In short, then, you have a revival that wants both to revive the material and blow it up, even though “1776″ hardly was a crude work of musical triumphalism. Sure, “1776″ is problematic, not unlike most cultural entities from 1969, but if that it was it wanted to foreground, the production needed to have better sense of the irony of bringing it back to our attention.
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