1776

As somebody with a degree in both History and American Studies, (student debt flex), I actually don't mind the dry parts of light political history in between all the songs, especially as somebody who doesn't always really like musicals. Unfortunately the music here isn't quite "Hamilton" or even the great, Tenacious D: "Ben Franklin was a rebel indeed, he liked to get naked while he smoked on the weed, he was a genius, but if he was here today, the government would fuck him up his righteous-A!"

No one got laid after taking their date to this. Oh my lord, I watched all 2 1/2+ hours of this thing.

The first two hours-ish are kind of a fluffy nothing, with a lot of superfluous musical numbers and way too much focus on how horny the Founding Fathers were. But then, it takes a hard turn into being about slavery, and the hypocrisy of Northerners who profited off it, and the question of whether independence was worth allowing slavery to continue, and the possibility that it wasn't, and this is all really good and important but the movie this was before just can't narratively support it!!

A funny musical that does seem to drag at parts with long parts with no music. Also a few songs fall completely flat and seem out of place or just muddled performance. But the leads are great, have fantastic charisma and constantly made me laugh. A fun, forgotten musical.

It's a musical about the writing of the Declaration of Independence. What more do you need than that?