Howard Da Silva (Ben Franklin) and William Daniels (John Adams) in "1776" (1969). Photo by Martha Swope.Can't let July 4th go by without my annual tribute to the musical 1776, a brilliant piece of theatre (IMHO) that managed to make a subject with little to no suspense as tense as a thriller. It was pulled off partly by way of a calendar placed on the wall of Independence Hall, the invention of playwright Peter St…
