The run closed March 17, 1906
- Opened
- January 1, 1906
- Closed
- March 17, 1906
- Performances
- 90
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- New Amsterdam Theatre
Of the 1,071 productions we hold that opened in the 1900s and record a performance count, this is the 211th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Forty-five Minutes From Broadway 1 more that season
| 1912 | George M Cohans Theatre Revival | 36 perf. |
Who was in it29 named
Ned Achard
Frank Benor
Rhea G Clemens
Hazel Cox
Alf Deball
J S Donnelly
S R Droscher
Maurice Elliott
Mabel Ellis
Floyd E Francis
Louis R Grisel
A Claire Heath
Marguerite Lane
Desiree Lazard
Madeline Leboeuf
James H Manning
Margaretta Masi
Nevada Maynard
Eugene Mcgregor
Fern Minard
Charles Prince
Julia Ralph
Nat Royster
Joe Simons
Marion Singer
4 of these 29 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 25 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Creative team
- Director
- George M. Cohan
- Producer
- Marc Klaw & A. L. Erlanger
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Around this production
The first night of the New Year saw three openings, all of them were successful. They were George M. Cohan’s “Forty-five Minutes From Broadway” with Fay Templeton, Victor Moore and Donald Brian; A Pictorial History of the American Theatre 1860 1985 Blum, p. 93
- 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 Showtime A History of the Broadway Musical Theatre Larry Stempel, p. 161
- Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway, 69 , 110 Cambridge Companion To the Musical Cambridge Companions To Music the the Cambrid, p. 535
- 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. Anything Goes A History of American Musical Theatre Ethan Mordden, p. 77
- 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”). Anything Goes A History of American Musical Theatre Ethan Mordden, p. 78
- 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. Anything Goes A History of American Musical Theatre Ethan Mordden, p. 81
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- No recording is held for Forty-five Minutes From Broadway at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.