Excerpt:
"Picture the scene.

The date: Summer, 1776.

The place: “Foul, fetid, fuming, foggy, filthy” Philadelphia.

The problem: Massachusetts Delegate John Adams (who is obnoxious and disliked (opens in a new window)) has just about had it with his fellow delegates, who piddle around Philadelphia not acknowledging the reality of what the men assembled need to consider: the question of independence.
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it’s also rooted in a lot of real history too, making it a perfect way to understand and appreciate the real personalities of Founding Fathers on and off the battlefield during the American Revolution. "

Musical numbers explore the group project that was the drafting of the Declaration of Independence (wherein Thomas Jefferson gets stuck quite literally holding the quill), the Triangle Trade (as Edward Rutledge argues against an anti-slavery clause in the document draft), and even how Adams, T.J., and Ben Franklin felt about the responsibility of birthing a new nation (an “eaglet,” metaphorically speaking). And who could forget Adams, Franklin, and Richard Henry Lee galloping around a Philadelphia water feature singing the praises and merits of “the Lees of old Virginia.”"