11 - Molasses to Rum - 1776 (1997 Revival)

1776 - The New Broadway Cast Recording
Music and Lyrics by Sherman Edwards.
Book by Peter Stone.
Based on a Concept by Sherman Edwards.
Musical staging by Kathleen Marshall.
Directed by Scott Ellis.
© 1997 TVT Soundtrax.
© 1997 Roundabout Theatre Company.

[@justanotherredheadattheend955]

This version in particular is amazing, it's just so ruthless and intense. He gets waaay too into it, absolutely rubbing their noses in the ugly side of the business the Northerners would prefer to leave unspoken.

[@yanivrubin4166]

"T'isn't morals, t'is money that saves"
-me before watching a show for free on the internet

[@hauntsandamusements]

Possibly the best version of this song.

[@richardjacobson3634]

Underrated opinion

[@PatheticCreature6892]

I agree

[@bignumber1weezerstan]

tbh i prefer broadway

[@LMD2915]

I agree. I've seen this performed so many times, and this version, to me, was the best.

[@julianneravely5112]

Hard to touch John Cullum, but this is the best I have heard, aside from Cullum.

[@sparroweyy]

thanks to this musical I aced history class

[@michelelindor]

Same! American History I had down pact!

[@flanplan5903]

My parents saw this revival in the theater two years before I was born…I can only imagine how fucking intense this number was to have been seen live.

[@chrisdimopoulos3768]

I think this is Gregg Edelman whom I went to college with. Talented guy.

[@caedmonnoeske3931]

Truth! Everyone views black slavery as a purely Southern problem and institution, which it most definitely was not...

[@haydenclewes3542]

Great version. Very good.
Just need Cullum in there ;)

[@kennethwayne6857]

While I am an obsessive fan of John Cullum and can appreciate the sentiment, hopefully you don't mean that no other actor can play the role. Way back, I used to audition for it (too old now, unfortunately). Like Paris, we'll always have Mr. Cullum's performance on film.

[@bcdside]

A fantastic song about a fantastically-evil institution... an institution that’s even larger, worldwide today than it was in 1776.

[@kennethwayne6857]

Sadly true. It will always be with us in some form or another.

[@nicholastosoni707]

A remake of 1776 would be worth it just to recast this song as an animated, nightmarish Disney Acid Sequence.

[@anastasiabeaverhausen8220]

Good. But can't top Cullum.