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If it’s June in the Valley, it must be time for Shakespeare in the Sangres at the Jones Theater! This year, the Westcliffe Center for the Performing Arts (WCPA) is thrilled to announce two major productions: opening with the musical 1776 on Friday, June 19, and then following up with Julius Caesar, opening on Friday, June 26.  Before there was Hamilton, there was 1776–a musical as erudite as it is witty, and a direct inspiration for Lin-Manuel Miranda’s smash hit. “It’s hot as hell in Philadelphia…” and the fractious members of the Continental Congress are fed up with John Adams and his radical ideas about American independence during the broiling summer of 1776. It takes the combined wiles of Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson…