“Sit Down, John!” and Stand Up for History: Feuds, Freedoms, and Founders — A screening of “1776” at the Uptown Market
📅 Monday, September 16th | 7:30 PM
📍 Uptown Market, Greenwood, SC
🎟️ Free Admission | Bring a chair, a blanket, and a revolutionary spirit
In honor of the 250th anniversary of American Independence, the Greenwood County 250th Coalition is teaming up with the Greenwood Film Society for a special outdoor screening of the bold, brassy, and shockingly relevant musical that proves democracy was never easy — and never boring.
Get ready for 1776 (1972), a toe-tapping, head-scratching, laugh-out-loud (and occasionally cry-into-your-popcorn) look at the men who drafted the Declaration of Independence — and nearly throttled each other in the process.
Starring William Daniels as a relentlessly annoying John Adams (his words, not ours), Howard Da Silva as a delightfully mischievous Benjamin Franklin, and Ken Howard as a deeply conflicted Thomas Jefferson, this film doesn’t just sing history — it debates, brawls, and bargains with it.
🎵 Yes, there are songs. Yes, they’re good. And no, this movie doesn’t sugarcoat a thing.
From the grinding gridlock of Congress to the moral compromises that haunt the founding of the nation (looking at you, slavery debate), 1776 lays bare the flawed humanity of the Founding Fathers — with wit, heart, and powdered wigs.
📜 Screening one day before Constitution Day, this is your chance to see a cinematic take on the fight for American independence… before they even had a Constitution to argue about.
