
Ben Franklin in Paris (1964, repro)
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Mark Sandrich Jr. and Sidney Michaels’s 'Ben Franklin in Paris' arrived at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in 1964, running for an astonishing 215 performances and generating immense media profile as an opulent golden-era musical spectacular event. Set in the high-stakes diplomatic courts of Paris in 1776, the melody-infused historical narrative chronicles Benjamin Franklin as he deploys an intricate campaign of political strategy and romantic alignments to secure French support for the American Revolution, starring stage titan Robert Preston.

