A touring production of the musical ‘1776,’ now playing in San Jose, casts the Founding Fathers with female, transgender and non-binary actor
After the runaway success of “Hamilton,” a whole lot of theaters here and elsewhere started reviving that other musical about the Founding Fathers, “1776.”
The tour launched in February, almost exactly a month after the show closed on Broadway. Its six-day run at San Jose’s Center for the Performing Arts, presented by Broadway San Jose, is the only Bay Area stop on the tour. “I saw a post that somebody put on social media that said, ‘This just in. Benjamin Franklin was a dude,’ says Liz Mikel, who plays Franklin. “And I had to respond, ‘But he was also human. And a human is portraying him on stage.’”
“This is really the reason why I took this job,” says Gisela Adisa, who stars as John Adams. “I get to be an element of myself, in a very Brechtian way, where the audience right away understands we’re stepping into the shoes of these people. We are not these people, but this is our interpretation of these people and the founding of this nation. Even though it is very much honoring what the original creators made, because it’s coming out of us, it takes on different levels of meaning.
Much of the drama centers around the Original Sin of this country, the compromise of allowing slavery to get all the states on board to declare independence, and how even the delegates opposed to slavery profited from it in one way or another.
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