Before there were feeds, there were broadsides. 📰

At the heart of Broadside the Musical is the Common Press, the technology that turned ink, paper, and an idea into something that could help shape public opinion across Boston.

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You push open the door of a tavern near Boston in 1776 and the room hums with low voices. On the wall, a fresh broadside catches your eye, ink still bold, the original social meme, shaping the room’s conversation. 🎭🙃
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Speaking of rights, Abigail Adams said "Remember the Ladies." Upstairs at the Green Dragon, the Needle Guard goes full chaos: Mercy paints coal-black teeth, Sarah hefts a jug, Phillis hisses “Hurry,” and Abigail becomes a Drunken Maiden, so a coded message can get past a patrol. 🎭 #BroadsideMusical

The curtain falls after the famous echo of musket fire near Concord. Now picture this: Joseph Warren slips Paul Revere a fresh-off-the-press broadside, and a group of colonists gathers in a tavern to sign-up for the new army. History’s next act is already brewing!🎭

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New fave moment from #BroadsideMusical: upstairs at the Green Dragon, Abigail/Mercy/Sarah sew secret messages into a petticoat while poor Dr. Warren wears it as a mannequin. Then “The Governor’s Fancy” mop-wig satire sneaks their spies past the redcoats. Photos ⬇️ #BroadsideTheMusical

Sam Adams nods off at Edes & Gill while his writing pseudonyms; Populus, Candidus, Valerius Poplicola, A Chatterer, float out of the ink to rally the colonists. Broadsides fly, taverns buzz, and the British soldiers get haunted in all the best ways. 👻📰 #BroadsideMusical #NewWorks #AmericanRevolution

I'm trying to imagine what the Edes & Gill print shop in Boston looked like from the street. Inside, Boston’s revolution was taking shape. Sam Adams slipped in his pseudonyms (Vindex, Populus, Candidus), Revere etched history on copper, and truth found its sharpest edge in ink. 🎭 #broadsidemusical