It won the New York Drama Critics' Circle award for Best Play, and ran for 173 performances.
Thomas Jefferson has just returned from France, hoping to relax with his daughters at Monticello.
Hit by tough political opposition, specifically afraid of rising monarch strength, he urges Jefferson to become his Secretary of State.
The cast on opening night was: The play has been presented on television twice, by NBC in 1963 (starring Charlton Heston as Thomas Jefferson, John Fraser as Alexander Hamilton, and Howard St. John as George Washington) and in 1976 by PBS (starring Robert Murch as Thomas Jefferson, Philip LeStrange as Alexander Hamilton, and Ralph Clanton as George Washington), but it has never been made into a theatrical film.
Ironically, the first telecast, in 1963, took place on November 15, one week before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.