Bicentennial Red, White, and Blues

Dolls of Our Lives

Allison Horrocks and Mary Mahoney

Society & Culture, History

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

With so much recent discussion about the ideas and intentions of the "founders," we decided to watch the film version of the musical 1776...so you won't have to. Clocking in at 2 hours and 45 minutes, this performance will give you more questions than answers as to how the Declaration of Independence was actually written. We talk about Mr. Feeny's (a.k.a William David Daniels's) turn as John Adams, what's really going on with the depiction of Thomas Jefferson's wife, and the general fixation with leading white men of this era.

original air date: July 27, 2022

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0:00.0	Welcome everyone to American Girls. This is the podcast where we're reliving the American
0:14.5	girls series book by book except here on Patreon or we're doing whatever we think works
0:19.9	within the world of this show.'m Mary I am obnoxious and disliked no that's John
0:26.7	Adams I am Allison wow wow thank you for being here Allison and you know we're about to go back in time together and you know I just wonder your thoughts about 1776.
0:40.0	You know, I've never wanted to be Blythe Danner less than after watching this musical in which she stars as Martha Jefferson.
0:48.0	Unrecognizably, so I will add.
0:51.0	Oh, yeah.
0:54.0	I mean, this is the suggestion that we've had from some folks over time and you know I've just
1:01.0	been thinking a lot about like musicals and like historical production like historical dramas and whatever so this kind of hit me at a good moment. We were just talking about the Elvis movie which I have not seen yet and I'm not sure if I will like I don't know why they're making me go to a theater when I'm not prepared to do that right now but like I'm wondering if I can emotionally, spiritually handle that film at this time?
1:24.5	I don't know. So we chose to talk about the 1776 film version of the musical, which, like the
1:32.0	Watergate scandal, turned 50 this year.
1:36.1	This is a musical retelling that I'm not sure I was ever like really prepared for.
1:41.1	I think that my like romantic vision of the man who played Mr. Feeney being in a starring role
1:48.2	allowed me to block out the other like two hours and 44 minutes of this two hour and 45 minute feature.
1:55.0	Yeah, you know, it's interesting that you were looking at the runtime of
1:58.4	Hamilton before because you imagine that that was a lot shorter than this movie and in fact it's not I don't think but it just felt that way to you.
2:06.4	It felt very different to me so I saw Hamilton in theaters several years ago I first saw this
2:12.4	1776 on a wheeled out television at my high school.
2:19.0	I chose to re-watch this on Amazon Prime, you know, when they were talking about tyranny I was like, I get it,
2:26.2	I've been strapped to this chair for hours watching this musical.
2:29.4	I'm actually shocked to hear that you watch this in high school because I know that you like me
2:34.3	went to a Catholic high school and that's a very abstinence only environment and this is
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