Constituting America – Constituting America's 2017 "Celebrate America" Summer Auction
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Restored Director's Cut DVD of the Tony Award winning Broadway Musical! 1776!

Item Number
388
Estimated Value
60 USD
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Item Description

Janine Turner will personally autograph DVD  to you!

Restored Director's Cut DVD of the Tony Award winning Broadway Musical!

"The cast, a number of whom reprise their roles from the Broadway production, is nearly flawless. William Daniels IS John Adams, hard-headed, driven, passionate, "obnoxious and disliked". Howard da Silva is equally effective as Benjamin Franklin, elder statesman and earthy man-of-the-world, while the rest of the actors do very well by their characters. Of necessity, the film's emphasis is on Congress, and therefore on the male of the species; women are limited to two roles--Martha Jefferson, played by Blythe Danner, and Abigail Adams, played by Virginia Vestoff. Of Danner's role, there is little to say beyond the fact that the actress is a luminous screen presence. Vestoff, on the other hand, has a rather more substantial role as John Adams's wife, confidant, and sounding board. The film effectively portrays the correspondence between John and Abigail, a partnership that was, in many ways, remarkable in American history."