1776

Staff

... Conductor	Peter Howard (i)
... Producer	Thomas Z. Shepard
... Engineers	Fred Plaut Arthur Kendy Glen Kolotkin

Cast

... John Hancock (President)	David Ford
... Dr. Josiah Bartlett (New Hampshire)	Paul-David Richards
... John Adams (Massachusetts)	William Daniels
... Stephen Hopkins (Rhode Island)	Roy Poole
... Roger Sherman (Connecticut)	David Vosburgh
... Lewis Morris (New York)	Ronald Kross
... Robert Livingston (New York)	Henry Le Clair
... Rev. John Witherspoon (New Jersey)	Edmund Lyndeck
... Benjamin Franklin (Pennsylvania)	Rex Everhart
... John Dickinson (Pennsylvania)	Paul Hecht
... James Wilson (Pennsylvania)	Emory Bass
... Caesar Rodney (Delaware)	Robert Gaus
... Col. Thomas McKean (Delaware)	Bruce MacKay
... George Read (Delaware)	Duane Bodin
... Samuel Chase (Maryland)	Philip Polito
... Richard Henry Lee (Virginia)	Ronald Holgate
... Thomas Jefferson (Virginia)	Ken Howard
... Joseph Hewes (North Carolina)	Charles Rule
... Edward Rutledge (South Carolina)	Clifford David
... Dr. Lyman Hall (Georgia)	Jonathan Moore
... Charles Thomson (Congressional Secretary)	Ralston Hill
... Andrew McNair (Congressional Custodian)	William Duell
... Leather Apron	B. J. Slater
... Courier	Scott Jarvis
... Abigail Adams	Virginia Vestoff
... Martha Jefferson	Betty Buckley

Tracks

Understudy Rex Everhart performs the role of Benjamin Franklin on the recording, as Howard Da Silva (who had played the role on opening night and would return to it) was recovering from a heart attack.