The Atlanta Constitution from Atlanta, Georgia • 52

LAST 11 DAYS ftCHDEHY AVABD! crashing bore, I must add that the information is 'so well integrated into the play's structure and responsible for so much of its humor that it is given without the audience's awareness, that they are absorbing what Continued on Page 15A '1 776 9 Success Big Surprise BEST I HCTilESS 1 ilfituillihiluh who' that BARBRA STREISAND I TODAY: 1.2:00 KNOCKING at mjr door fiSSSsi tiO By DIANE THOMAS It would doubtless be curmudgeonly to suggest that the creators on "1776," that seem ingly naive lit- 1 1 Broadway or to indulge in a little flag waving on the other. Stone manages the seemingly impossible task of giving each delegate a distinct personality, ranging from the rum-soaked representative from Rhode Island to a little weasel of a conservative from Delaware. He also makes it clear where each stood on vital issues. Lest this make the play sound like a Rasv. 233-3361 or 237-9682 C8PRI 81 10 ROSWELL N.W.

Ioee una muviv auuui unc ui the most hotly discussed sub- 1 introducing HARVEY KEITEL 1 starring ZINA BE! HUNE rw nice cm. kit Features! ATLANTA'S ORIGINAL -THE SOUTH FIRST- VPEACHTREE HT13TH ST. 882-3581 lects In America today, sleeper which emerged with the "Best Musi-" cal" Tony award, knewM what they were about commer- cially when they began their work. Journal-Constitution Want Ads Pay Off Neither the dim nunm composer-lyricist Sherman Edwards nor the director Peter Hunt had ever worked on Broadway before. Yet in "1776" they, along with author Peter Stone, have turned out a play which, as solid sellout performances testify, appeals to the New York audience and which will, from its very unsophisticated, unassuming nature, have an even greate drawing power on the road.

The show casts the formal traditions of musical comedy to the winds. Not only is there no big, brassy "ten o'clock number," no chorus line and little love interest, there isn't even an intermission. In dealing with the Continental Congress ami the formulation of our Declaration of Independence, "1776" is not afraid on the one hand to reduce such history book giants as John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson to very human beings, s- CUTIS especially yLrtrrrrr there's nothing tCf ELSE T0 BUY! If 1 EVERYTHING INCLUDED zsjIaaa no money dovjh WJy EASY BUDGET TERMS Jr yTW UP TO 70 TRADE-IN 1 J( ALLOWANCE ON YOUR stJsb PRESENT POOL Afiffiffl CALL TODAY SUNDAY fjj If 1 FREE SHOP-AT-HOME SERVICE 0 Jl 0 0 DAILY SUNDAY VJ I 0 1 1 AQUA.MATI POOL CO. int ruiMrn (Km. 4ll) (404) AIIMU.

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