In Laurents, Styne, and Sondheim's Gypsy, the three ecdysiasts teach Louise the finer points of stripping as they bump and grind, “You gotta get a gimmick.” Lin-Manuel Miranda quickly learned how to do it in mega-watt Hamilton with its racially diverse cast. For the 2022 revival of Peter Stone and...
, the three ecdysiasts teach Louise the finer points of stripping as they bump and grind, “You gotta get a gimmick.” Lin-Manuel Miranda quickly learned how to do it in mega-wattwith its racially diverse cast. For the 2022 revival of Peter Stone and Sherman Edwards' Tony Award-winning Best Musical history lesson,, directors Jeffrey I. Paige and Diane Paulus take the gimmick and move the needle to 11.
There's a beautiful closeness and empathy when John Adams , Benjamin Franklin , Thomas Jefferson , and the others, are played a panoply of all shapes, sizes, and colors. Yes, it's a gimmick, but what a grand one. After five minutes, you utterly forget the genders represented on stage and are drawn right into the story. That's the ultimate power of theater – make believe of the highest order. We don't care if the Continental Congress are guys or gals or trans or whatever.
Stone's book is a masterclass in historical condensation – full of insight, wit, and compassion for these men who had no true guiding principles on which to form this brand new nation. English philosopher John Locke had an enormous influence on the fathers, but this dangerous experiment in independence was a one-off, fueled by Adams, “obnoxious and disliked” by the others, and spurred on by foxy Franklin and a wary Jefferson.
The most powerful number is “Molasses to Rum,” hissed by South Carolina's Edward Rutledge , that portrays the north's hypocrisy in the slave trade. It's a vicious triangle, she argues. How can you criticize our way of life when you depend and wittingly participate in the trade? You in Massachusetts and Rhode Island make the rum from the sugar we harvest from slaves in the south. “Mr.
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