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Forty-five Minutes From Broadway

Shows · Forty-five Minutes From Broadway

More of a play with music than a musical comedy - there were only five songs in the score — Forty-five Minutes from Broadway was written as a vehicle for Fay Templeton, but it was Victor Moore, in his first leading role on Broadway, who stole everyone’s attention. In the story, set in New Rochelle, New York – which is only 45 minutes from Broadway – a nasty millionaire has died leaving a will that no one can find.

Opened
1906
Performances
90
Type
Musical
Era
Early
Music: George M. CohanLyrics: George M. CohanBook: George M. Cohan

Productions2 on Broadway

1906 New Amsterdam Theatre Original. January 1, 1906 · George M. Cohan 90 performances
1912 George M Cohans Theatre Revival. March 14, 1912 36 performances

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In the literature7 passages

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 book:showtime-a-history-of-the-broadway-musical-theatre-larry-stempel#p161

Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway, 69 , 110 book:cambridge-companion-to-the-musical-cambridge-companions-to-music-the-the-cambrid#p535

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. book:anything-goes-a-history-of-american-musical-theatre-ethan-mordden#p77

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”). book:anything-goes-a-history-of-american-musical-theatre-ethan-mordden#p78

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. book:anything-goes-a-history-of-american-musical-theatre-ethan-mordden#p81

an adaptation of George M. Cohan’s 1906 musical Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway (1959) by Walter Kerr and William H. Graham, starring Tammy Grimes and Larry Blyden—moved NBC to offer Gower six specials to produce and direct for the 1959-1960 television season. book:before-the-parade-passes-by-gower-champion-and-the-glorious-american-musical-joh#p104

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