Forty-five Minutes From Broadway
Shows · Forty-five Minutes From Broadway
More of a play with music than a musical comedy - there were only five songs in the score — Forty-five Minutes from Broadway was written as a vehicle for Fay Templeton, but it was Victor Moore, in his first leading role on Broadway, who stole everyone’s attention. In the story, set in New Rochelle, New York – which is only 45 minutes from Broadway – a nasty millionaire has died leaving a will that no one can find.
- Opened
- 1906
- Performances
- 90
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Early
Productions2 on Broadway
| 1906 | New Amsterdam Theatre Original. January 1, 1906 · George M. Cohan | 90 performances |
| 1912 | George M Cohans Theatre Revival. March 14, 1912 | 36 performances |
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He did so most memorably with three productions: Little Johnny Jones (1904), Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway (1906), and George Washington, Jr. (1906). These were breezy morality plays whose stories book:showtime-a-history-of-the-broadway-musical-theatre-larry-stempel#p161
Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway, 69 , 110 book:cambridge-companion-to-the-musical-cambridge-companions-to-music-the-the-cambrid#p535
Cohan got one hit out of the genre: Forty-Five Minutes From Broadway (1906) has only a handful of numbers, and the middle act (of three) has no singing at all. book:anything-goes-a-history-of-american-musical-theatre-ethan-mordden#p77
Forty-Five Minutes From Broadway’s heroine’s solo, “Mary’s A Grand Old Name,” is not only self-righteous about being called Mary (“There is no falseness there”), but upbraids any Marie for masquerading (“She’ll surely bleach her hair”). book:anything-goes-a-history-of-american-musical-theatre-ethan-mordden#p78
Again, he was the Kid Burns in Forty-Five Minutes From Broadway, too: and George Washington Jr. and The Man Who Owns Broadway and The Yankee Prince, to cite other Cohan titles. book:anything-goes-a-history-of-american-musical-theatre-ethan-mordden#p81
an adaptation of George M. Cohan’s 1906 musical Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway (1959) by Walter Kerr and William H. Graham, starring Tammy Grimes and Larry Blyden—moved NBC to offer Gower six specials to produce and direct for the 1959-1960 television season. book:before-the-parade-passes-by-gower-champion-and-the-glorious-american-musical-joh#p104
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