Based on a musical stage play the original release year was 1972.
I was six years old then and I remember my mother stating the movie wasn't "suitable" for a child my age.
July 1976 I was ten and observed the movie via network TV.
I am currently unsure how much dialog the network censored but I just recall the action consisted of a lot of busy gentlemen subsequently singing and arguing AND MORE ARGUING....at that time I didn't understand why at age six it had deemed forbidden viewing.
I watched it yesterday on streaming service; the first blue comment was Richard Henry Lee's "I will go home (to Virginia) and refresh the missus..."
HA HA HA; Lee is also making a rather large assumption by presuming Ms. Lee WANTS REFRESHING.
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When I was a child such comments would have soared directly over my head; even though my mother said in 1976: "John Adams is upset that Thomas Jefferson wants to make love to his wife. Adams feels that Jefferson has lots of better things to do...like writing 'The Declaration Of Independence'."
I do recall wondering why that particular job had been delegated to Jefferson; the documentation chore that is!
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Re Ben Franklin (not the store of course) the TV network must have eliminated the "drinking and whoring" references....but man was Franklin a LOUSY FATHER!
