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GEORGE M! brings George M. Cohan's familiar music to audiences in Brunswick, Me., Aug. 4-16; Westbury, L.T., through Aug. 10; Haddonfield, N.J., Aug. 11-23, with Mickey Rooney; Corning, N.Y., Aug. 26-31; and Los Angeles' Dorothy Chandler Pavilion through Aug. 23, with Joel Grey, who starred on Broadway...
...door wide open," the producers promised. TherE they closed it by hiring as host Disney Star Dean Jones (That Darn Cat), and by laying on a premiere as topical as Early Berle, as substantial as tapioca. They struck body blows at Shirley Tern ple movies and George M. Cohan musicals. A chorus boy wore a huge papier-mache Richard Nixon head. Mid-finale, Jones apologized "if we've offended anybody," and the cast broke into This Land Is My Land. The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour (CBS) is a revival of the summer-substitute show starring Citybilly Singei Campbell (TIME...
GEORGE M! (Columbia). The good old songs are still the good old songs, and little new dimension has been added by the score of the musical comedy tracing the life of Composer-Showman George M. Cohan. Joel Grey delivers the Yankee Doodle Dandy songs with combustible energy. But aficionados of the music of the period might do better to dig out their...
...COMEDY PLAYHOUSE (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). The Seven Little Foys. The story of the vaudeville family, starring Eddie Foy Jr. as Eddie Foy Sr. and Mickey Rooney as George M. Cohan. Repeat...
...evening is essentially a family album of George M. Cohan's music. This may be the only musical at which the audience comes into the theater humming the songs. They hold up remarkably well, even though they celebrate the memory of a simple, ardent and unskeptical U.S. that no longer exists. No one now can summon up the unblemished patriotic fervor of You're a Grand Old Flag, Yankee Doodle Dandy and Over There. Few men now can adorn a woman in the romantic gauze and adoring awe of a song like Mary. Every addicted New Yorker...