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An award-winning two-part play with music, adapted and directed by Martin Jarvis, celebrating - sometimes irreverently - the American colonies' struggle to break from British rule. Delegates, risking hanging for treason鈥� carve out the Declaration of Independence - the basis of American democracy for 250 years.

A glittering US-based cast includes Alfred Molina, Ioan Gruffudd, Steven Weber, Josh Stamberg, Gregory Harrison and Erin Bennett.

鈥�1776鈥� - A musical play based on a conception of Sherman Edwards with book by Peter Stone. Music and Lyrics by Sherman Edwards

Cast
Benjamin Franklin鈥�Alfred Molina
John Adams...Ioan Gruffudd
Rutledge鈥�Steven Weber
Dickinson鈥�Josh Stamberg
Jefferson鈥�Chase Fein
Hancock鈥�Andre Sogliuzzo
Thomson鈥�Gregory Harrison
Henry Lee鈥�Richard Leacock
McNair鈥�JD Cullum
Hopkins鈥�William Calvert
McKean鈥�Matthew Wolf
Courier鈥�Jack Stuhley
Abigail Adams鈥�Erin Bennett
Martha Jefferson鈥�Janine Barris
Delegates: Henri Lubatti, Darren Richardson, Alan Shearman, Mark Jude Sullivan and members of the company
Congress Singers: Sebastian Guerrero, Tyler Ledon, Drew Tablak, Loren Smith, Ken White

Keyboard: Noriko Olling Wright
Music director: Jason Currie
Sound Design: Neil Wogenson and Charles Carroll
Production associate: Tracy Pattin
Producers: Mark Holden and Rosalind Ayres
Adapted and directed by Martin Jarvis

Musicians: Chad Wright, Josh Brown, Mike Edwards, Taryn Spink, Jenni Asher

A Jarvis & Ayres production for 麻豆社 Radio 4

Story of America is a major collection of dramatisations of milestone American titles marking 250 years since the Declaration of Independence