Word: cohane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Yankee Doodle Dandy. Cagney's favorite role, says he in his autobiography. He good taste. You could watch this eight times a week on Million Dollar Movie and never get tired of it, especially the Cohan dance numbers. It's filled with stock Warner Brothers actors, not to mention the great Walter Huston and somebody who does an uncanny Franklin Roosevelt imitation. The movie's disregard for Cohan's real personality makes no difference. He was a patriot, and patriotism is never out of style...
...went into a restaurant there was always some wag having the waiter bring me a tray of grapefruit. It got to be awfully tiresome." So which of his 62 films did he enjoy the most? Yankee Doodle Dandy, in which he played the Broadway music maker George M. Cohan. Says Jimmy, now a gentleman farmer in New York...
George M! A thoroughly enjoyable version of the Joel Grey Broadway hit about the life of entertainer George M. Cohan, thanks mainly to Greg Minahan, the show's director, who plays the title role with phenomenal energy and conviction. Minahan's charistmatic performance is complemented by foot-stomping choreography and a lively Cohan score which includes standards like "Yankee Doodle Dandy," "Over There" and "Give My Regards to Broadway." The best Grant-in-Aid musical in at last three years. At the Agassiz, November 20-22, at 8 p.m. Tickets $3.50 and $3, $2 for students...
George M! A supremely entertaining version of the Joel Grey Broadway hit about the life of entertainer George M. Cohan, thanks mainly to Greg Minahan, the show's director, who plays the title role with phenomenal energy and conviction. Minahan's charismatic performance is complemented by a lively George M. Cohan score--including standards like "Yankee Doodle Dandy," "Over There" and "Give My Regards to Broadway,"--and foot-stomping choreography. The best Grant-in-Aid musical in at least three years. At the Agassiz, November 13-15 and 20-22, at 8 p.m. Tickets $3.50 and $3, $2 for students...
Loud and ebullient, George M! resounds with the rhythms of taps and canes and musical hosannas to the man who, according to legend, once owned Broadway. Giving it "the Cohan touch--speed, lights, music," Greg Minahan has set the Grant-in-Aid production of Joel Grey's Broadway hit squarely on the right track...