MEGHAN PRESSMAN Managing Director/CEO
DOUGLAS C. BAKER Producing Director
GORDON DAVIDSON Founding Artistic Director
The American Repertory Theater Roundabout Theatre Company National Artists Management Company NETworks Presentations
APRIL 11 – MAY 7, 2023 AHMANSON THEATRE
Music and Lyrics by
Sherman Edwards
Book by
Peter Stone
Based on a Concept by Sherman Edwards
Original Broadway Production Produced by Stuart Ostrow
with
Shelby Acosta Gisela Adisa Nancy Anderseon Tiffany Barbour Dawn Cantwell
Julie Cardia Amanda Dayhoff Sara Gallo Joanna Glushak Anissa Marie Greigo Kassandra Haddock Shawna Hamic Lisa Karlin Connor Lyon Liz Mikel Nykila Norman Oneika Phillips Lulu Picart Kayla Saunders Ariella Serur Brooke Simpson Sav Souza Lillie Eliza Thomas Tieisha Thomas Gwynne Wood Candice Marie Woods
Set Design
SCOTT PASK
Costume Design
EMILIO SOSA
Lighting Design
JEN SCHRIEVER
Projection Design
DAVID BENGALI
Hair and Wig Design
MIA NEAL
Fight Choreographer
THOMAS SCHALL
Dialect Coach
ERIKA BAILEY
Orchestrations
JOHN CLANCY
Original Music Supervision by
DAVID CHASE
Vocal Design
ANNMARIE MILAZZO
Music Coordinator
DEAN SHARENOW
Associate Director
BRISA ARELI MUNOZ
Associate Choreographer
COURTNEY PAIGE ROSS
Casting
STEWART/WHITLEY
Marketing and Publicity Direction
BOND THEATRICAL
Tour Booking
THE BOOKING GROUP
MEREDITH BLAIR
KARA GEBHART
Production Management
NETWORKS PRESENTATIONS
HECTOR GUIVAS
Production Stage Manager
GENEVIEVE KERSH
Company Manager
KATIE CORTEZ
General Managers
GENTRY & ASSOCIATES
GREGORY VANDER PLOEG
MADELINE MCCLUSKEY
Executive Producer
NATIONAL ARTISTS MANAGEMENT COMPANY
BARRY WEISSLER AND ALECIA PARKER
Music Supervision
Music Direction
RYAN CANTWELL
Choreographed by
Jeffrey L. Page
Directed by
JEFFREY L. PAGE AND DIANE PAULUS
CAST
(in order of appearance)
John Adams, Massachusetts . . . . . GISELA ADISA
George Read, Delaware . . . . . GWYNNE WOOD
Col. Thomas McKean, Delaware . . . . . DAWN CANTWELL
Andrew McNair, Congressional Custodian . . . . . JTIFFANI BARBOUR
Caesar Rodney, Delaware. . . . . NYKILA NORMAN
Stephen Hopkins, Rhode Island. . . . . JULIE CARDIA
Abigail Adams/Rev. Jonathan Witherspoon, New Jersey. . . . . TIEISHA THOMAS
Thomas Jefferson, Virginia. . . . . NANCY ANDERSON
Charles Thomson, Secretary. . . . . SHELBY ACOSTA
John Dickinson, Pennsylvania. . . . . JOANNA GLUSHAK
Richard Henry Lee, Virginia. . . . . SHAWNA HAMIC
John Hancock, President of the Congress. . . . . ONEIKA PHILLIPS
Benjamin Franklin, Pennsylvania. . . . . LIZ MIKEL
Joseph Hewes, North Carolina. . . . . CANDICE MARIE WOODS
Samuel Chase, Maryland. . . . . LULU PICART
Edward Rutledge, South Carolina. . . . . KASSANDRA HADDOCK
Judge James Wilson, Pennsylvania. . . . . ARIELLA SERUR
Roger Sherman, Connecticut. . . . . ANISSA MARIE GRIEGO
Dr. Josiah Bartlett, New Hampshire. . . . . SAV SOUZA
Courier. . . . . BROOKE SIMPSON
Understudies
Standbys and understudies never substitute for the listed performers unless a specific announcement is made at the time of the appearance.
For John Adams—LILLIE ELIZA THOMAS, TIEISHA THOMAS; for Robert Livingston—TIFFANI BARBOUR, ONEIKA PHILLIPS, LILLIE ELIZA THOMAS; for George Read— DAWN CANTWELL, JULIE CARDIA, SARA GALLO, ARIELLA SERUR; for Col. Thomas McKean—JULIE CARDIA, AMANDA DAYHOFF, LISA KARLIN; for Andrew McNair—KAYLA SAUNDERS, CANDICE MARIE WOODS; for Stephen Hopkins—AMANDA DAYHOFF, LISA KARLIN; for Abigail Adams/Rev. Jonathan Witherspoon—BROOKE SIMPSON; for Thomas Jefferson—DAWN CANTWELL, GWYNNE WOOD; for Charles Thomson—AMANDA DAYHOFF, ANISSA MARIE GRIEGO, SAV SOUZA; for John Dickinson—DAWN CANTWELL, JULIE CARDIA; for Richard Henry Lee—LISA KARLIN, SAV SOUZA, GWYNNE WOOD; for Martha Jefferson/Dr. Lyman Hall—ANISSA MARIE GRIEGO, ARIELLA SERUR; for John Hancock—LILLIE ELIZA THOMAS, TIEISHA THOMAS; for Benjamin Franklin—ONEIKA PHILLIPS, LILLIE ELIZA THOMAS; for Joseph Hewes— TIFFANI BARBOUR, KAYLA SAUNDERS; for Samuel Chase—SHELBY ACOSTA, LISA KARLIN; for Edward Rutledge— AMANDA DAYHOFF, LULU PICART, GWYNNE WOOD; for Judge James Wilson—SARA GALLO, ANISSA MARIE GRIEGO, SAV SOUZA; for Roger Sherman—SHELBY ACOSTA, SARA GALLO, LULU PICART; for Courier— KAYLA SAUNDERS, CANDICE MARIE WOODS; for Dr. Josiah Bartlett—SHELBY ACOSTA, SARA GALLO, ARIELLA SERUR; for Caesar Rodney—ONEIKA PHILLIPS, KAYLA SAUNDERS, CANDICE MARIE WOODS.
Standbys
AMANDA DAYHOFF, SARA GALLO, LISA KARLIN, KAYLA SAUNDERS, LILLIE ELIZA THOMAS
Production Stage Manager. . . . . GENEVIEVE KERSH
Stage Manager. . . . . CHRIS ZACCARDI
Assistant Stage Manager. . . . . SAGE LUMSDEN
Dance Captain. . . . . ONEIKA PHILLIPS
Assistant Dance Captain. . . . . LISA KARLIN
Fight Captain. . . . . SAV SOUZA
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Musical Numbers
ACT I
"Sit Down, John". . . . . John Adams, Company
"Piddle, Twiddle, and Resolve". . . . . Adams, Company
"Till Then". . . . . John and Abigail Adams
"The Lees of Old Virginia". . . . . Lee, Franklin, Adams, Historical Lees
"But, Mr. Adams". . . . . Adams, Franklin, Jefferson, Sherman, Livingston
"Yours, Yours, Yours". . . . . John and Abigail Adams
"He Plays the Violin". . . . . Martha Jefferson, Franklin, Adams, Jefferson
ACT II
"Cool, Cool Considerate Men". . . . . Dickinson, Hall, Hancock, Hewes, Read, Rutledge, Thomson, Wilson
"Momma, Look Sharp". . . . . Courier, McNair, Company
"The Egg". . . . . Franklin, Adams, Jefferson, Company
"Molasses to Rum". . . . . Rutledge, Company
"Yours, Yours, Yours" (reprise). . . . . Abigail Adams
"Is Anybody There?". . . . . Adams
THERE WILL BE ONE 15-MINUTE INTERMISSION
Orchestra
Conductor & Keyboards—RYAN CANTWELL;
Associate Conductor—ALYSSA KAY THOMPSON;
Drums, Percussion—NOAH HADLAND;
Cello—DAVID MERGEN;
French Horn—DANIELLE ONDARZA;
Trombone— STEVE TRAPANI;
Trumpet, Piccolo Trumpet,
Flugelhorn—DOMINIC DERASSE;
Bass—WILLIAM JOHNSON;
Violin— JEN CHOI FISCHER;
Guitars, Dobro, Mandolin, Banjo—GABRIEL WAREING;
Saxophone, Clarinets, Flutes—PHIL VARRICCHIO.
Music Supervisor: RYAN CANTWELL
Music Coordinator: DEAN SHARENOW
Music Director: RYAN CANTWELL
Associate Music Director: ALYSSA KAY THOMPSON
Music Assistant: IAN CHAN
Electronic Music Design: BILLY STEIN AND HIRO IIDA FOR STRANGE CRANIUM
Music Copyist: RUSSELL BARTMUS
Los Angeles Contractor ROBERT PAYNE
A NOTE ABOUT PRONOUNS AND GENDER AT 1776
Our amazing company is made up of female, trans, and non-binary individuals. As you read the program, you may notice that the cast, crew, and creative teams list their pronouns next to their names. We recognize that this might be new to some of our audiences and want to take the opportunity to highlight some concepts around pronouns and gender expansiveness.
WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY “GENDER EXPANSIVENESS”?
There are an infinite amount of ways that people experience gender. Here is a glossary of some terms that you may hear when discussing gender:
- • Gender Identity. A person’s internal sense of their self and their gender.
- • Non-Binary. An umbrella gender identity that does not conform to the false idea that there are only two genders, male and female. Some other terms that fall under the non-binary umbrella are agender, genderqueer, gender-fluid, pangender, or gender non-conforming.
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• Trans or Transgender. A person whose gender identity differs with their gender assigned at birth. Some people who identify as non-binary may also identify as trans.
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• Cis or Cisgender. A person whose gender identity aligns with their gender assigned at birth.
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• Pronouns. Pronouns are the words we use to talk about people aside from using their names (ex: she/her, he/him, they/them, and many more.) Sometimes pronouns correlate with someone’s gender identity, and sometimes they don’t.