Word: cohane
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What's this? A Broadway musical that comes out foursquare for motherhood? And, for that matter, fatherhood? Shades of George M. Cohan! Nor is that by any means the end of the sins against chic committed by Baby. It is set in a leafy college town, about as far as you can get from show business, which seems to provide the themes and setting for most of Broadway's current musicals. And in a theatrical atmosphere where producers will spend millions on state-of-the-glitz stagecraft but not a penny for tribute to the ordinary issues that...
...George M. Cohan, Broadway's premier showman and songwriter of the World War I era (Over There, The Yankee Doodle Boy), was accused of failing to document a claim of $55,000 in expenses. Cohan won a landmark court victory in 1930, when the judge ruled that his estimated expenses were reasonable for a man in his position. "The Cohan Rule" survived until Congress passed new rules on documentation...
Cagney began his career as a burlesque actor in the early part of the 20th century, and made his first movie. "Sinners' Holiday," in 1930. He won an Academy Award in 1942 as George M. Cohan in Yankee Doodle Dandy." and returned from a 20 year retirement in 1981 to film "Ragtime...
...century, was no longer that new little country on the other side of the Atlantic. It had proven its might in the Spanish-American War and was well on the way to becoming a major world power. To this setting of jingoism and unbridled national pride came George M. Cohan, singer, dancer, and playwright, with more than a touch of the patriotic. Little Johnny Jones, his 1904 musical celebrating the expansive American spirit might find audiences as appreciative today as 80 years ago with the occasion of its revival at the Goodspeed Opera House...
Osmond receives solid, but never overpowering support, from a superb chorus. They all nimbly dance their way through Dan Siretta's inventive choreography. Siretta does not recreate the dances of the period, but rather their style, which makes it easier for a modern audience to appreciate them. Cohan's score offers delights other than the songs which went on to become American institutions. He could write not only belt-em-outs, but gentle ballads like "Life's a Funny Proposition," done subtlely and straightforwardly by Osmond, and wonderful comic creations such as "Captain of a Ten Day Boat" a parody...