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* [[AcCENT Upon the Wrong SylLABle]]: "The Lees of Old Virginia."
* [[Acting for Two]]: Standard practice in the straw hat circuit tours during the 1970s. Livingston and Morris, the delegates from New York, were frequently played by the same actor. And in a production number cut after the initial tryout, most of the cast doubled as (mostly incompetent) soldiers.
* [[Aluminum Christmas Trees]]: The show is filled with odd or bizarre details that are ''true'', discovered because its authors [[Shown Their Work|did an amazing amount of research]]. For instance, Benjamin Franklin is carried into Congress in a sedan chair, but it's not because he's [[Too Important to Walk]] -- it's because his gout is acting up and he ''can't'' walk (and the servants carrying him were prisoners from the local jail). Sometimes the details were so hard to believe, the writers had to ignore or change them [[Reality Is Unrealistic|because they were afraid the audience would think they had made it up.]] The most significant example of this would be a line taken from something [[John Adams]] wrote in one of his letters -- that if the Founding Fathers did not ban slavery, "there will be trouble a hundred years hence." The writers had to modify the line because if they quoted it word-for-word no one would believe they hadn't put those words in Adams' mouth with the clarity of a century of hindsight.
** It didn't always help. Ill-informed critics -- like [[Roger Ebert]] -- mistook the genuine details used to show that the Founding Fathers were real people as flights of fancy and complained the musical did them a disservice in presenting them so.
* [[Altum Videtur]]: Edward Rutledge celebrates the entrance of the bickering Delaware delegation by making a loud proclamation in Latin about their "eternal peace and harmony".
* [[American Accents]]: Ranging from the Deep South to New England, naturally enough.
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