If you go into the American Airlines Theatre expecting to see a revival of the Peter Stone/Sherman Edwards musical 1776, you are in for a surprise, not to say shock. Because this version, dually directed by Jeffrey L. Page and Diana Paulus, is less a "revival" than it is a total reconceptualization that comes off rather like a hybrid of Brecht and Weill's The Threepenny Opera and Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton, but fa…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:13AM on October 7, 2022