Review: ’1776′ bounces back to life with women playing the Founding Fathers

The Washington Post: A moment arrives in the deeply moving, Broadway-bound revival of “1776” when one’s conscience and senses are assaulted with the blunt force of a prizefighter’s upper cut. It happens during Sara Porkalob’s crackling delivery of “Molasses to Rum,” the Act 2 song scathingly denouncing the Continental Congress’s Northern delegates for their hypocrisy over slavery.