George M!
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In this biographical musical celebrating the achievements of composer-lyricist-librettist-playwright-director-producer-actor-singer-dancer George M. Cohan, the story takes us from his birth in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1878, through his Success and failures and ends with his final Broadway triumph in 1937 playing President Roosevelt in I’d Rather Be Right.
- Opened
- 1968
- Performances
- 427
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Revolution
Productions1 on Broadway
| 1968 | Palace Theatre Original. April 10, 1968 | 433 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 4 albums held
Licensing 2 entries
| US | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
| UK | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
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16 passages naming George M!, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
Earlier shows that displayed unequivocally American themes—for example, the so-called Mulligan shows of Edward Harrigan and Tony Hart between 1879 and 1883, Percy Gaunt and Charles H. Hoyt’s phenomenally successful A Trip to Chinatown in 1891 (657 performances), and George M. Cohan’s Little Johnny Jones in 1904—are tod… book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p29
James Cagney portrayed him in the 1942 biopic Yankee Doodle Dandy, and Joel Grey played him in George M! (1968). book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p111
George M! missed the Tony Award deadline, opening just after a season that included The Happy Time, How Now, Dow Jones, Ilya, Darling, and Tony-winner Hallelujah, Baby!—all flops, and rightly so. Hence, Clive Barnes and his “personal Tonys.” By the time the next awards deadline rolled around, George M! was long gone an… book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p346
Bernadette Peters, Joel Grey’s sister in Stewart’s George M! (1967) and the Ruby Keeler-ish ingénue in the Off-Broadway Dames at Sea (1968), had already starred in not one but three musical flops: Lionel Bart’s La Strada (1969); the 1971 revival of On the Town; and as Carlotta Monti, opposite Mickey Rooney’s Bill Field… book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p586
The previous summer he'd appeared on the citronella circuit in producer Black’s 1968 bio-tuner George M! book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p1067
Joel Grey starred in George M! in 1968. book:the-golden-age-of-american-musical-theatre-1943-1965-naden-corinne-j-rowman-litt#p209
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