Founding fathers found in Torrance
John Adams, rock star The Aerospace Players fly high with “1776” by Bondo Wyszpolski Okay, there were some tech issues and so forth on opening night, but the large and mostly amateur cast that staged the musical “1776” pulled it off. And quite well, actually. We’re talking about the 1969 work with music and lyrics by Sherman Edwards and a book by Peter Stone that at the end of the season walked away with three Tony Awards, including one for Best Musical. This production by the Aerospace Players is hardly Broadway caliber, but we only need a few of the almost 30 actors to really stand out, and fortunately the lead actor, Evan Cooper, in the role of John Adams, is truly convincing. I’m not going to tell you he’s excellent, but he’s very, very good. And that’s important because, essentially, “1776” is his story. The musical is set in the spring and early summer of 1776 when delegates from the thirteen colonies have gathered to create a Declaration of Independence that will proclaim their separation from England as the United States of America. In order to get them all to sign their names on it, each of them has to agree to the precise wording. In many ways, this is like the play…
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