One of my all time favorite musicals—when I was teaching I used to show it to my classes! Classic. ;-)
On seeing John Adams shocked that Jefferson and his wife were going to have a ‘nooner’, Benjamin Franklin comments,
“Don’t worry, John, the history books will clean it up!” LOL.
Still one of my favorites. I agree with you, that movie is a great way to teach kids about what happened in 1776. If more “adults” would watch it, they’d understand why independence had to come before the abolition of slavery. Unfortunately, most prefer to remain ignorant to that fact. When I hear the ignorant complain about the founding fathers not addressing slavery at that time, I always think of “1776”.