
1776
Summer 2016
Witness the birth of a nation! The founding fathers gather in the sweltering heat of summer to debate whether or not to declare independence in this lively, Tony-award-winning musical.
Performances
Kresge Little Theatre
- Aug. 12, 2016, 8 p.m.
- Aug. 13, 2016, 8 p.m.
- Aug. 14, 2016, 2 p.m.
Staff
- Producer: Phil Arevalo (G)
- Stage Director: Emma Brown
- Vocal Directors: Johnnie Han, Tom Ostrowski
- Orchestra Director: Julie Henion ('11)
- Assistant Orchestra Director: Liza Zahray ('17)
Cast
- John Adams: Anna-Constantia Richardson
- Benjamin Franklin: Michael DeFillippi
- Abigail Adams: Jaie Deschene
- Thomas Jefferson: Sara Haugland
- John Dickinson: Tyler Crosby
- James Wilson: Kristina Kim ('17)
- Edward Rutledge: Christine Chilingerian
- Richard Henry Lee: Danielle Smith
- John Hancock: Cynthia Goodman
- Charles Thomson: Deborah Gaz (W '98)
- Josiah Bartlett: Rebecca Burstein
- Stephen Hopkins: Brett Jordan
- Roger Sherman: Emma Joyce
- Samuel Chase: Kirsten Olson ('14)
- Lewis Morris: Lev Kandel
- Robert Livingston: Alexander Frieden
- John Witherspoon: Alexander Frieden
- Caesar Rodney: Wyn Brown
- Thomas McKean: dRay Bowens-Rubin ('12)
- Martha Jefferson: Meghan Jolliffe
- Joseph Hewes: Nora Sotomayor
- George Read: Meghan Jolliffe
- Courier: Rebecca Graber (W '11)
- Lyman Hall: Rebecca Graber (W '11)
- Andrew McNair: Haley Cope ('18)