Productions1 on Broadway
| 1968 | Palace Theatre Original. April 10, 1968 | 427 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 2 albums held
Licensing 2 entries
| US | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
| UK | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
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In the literature16 passages
Earlier shows that displayed unequivocally American themes—for example, the so-called Mulligan shows of Edward Harrigan and Tony Hart between 1879 and 1883, Percy Gaunt and Charles H. Hoyt’s phenomenally successful A Trip to Chinatown in 1891 (657 performances), and George M. Cohan’s Little Johnny Jones in 1904—are tod… book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p29
James Cagney portrayed him in the 1942 biopic Yankee Doodle Dandy, and Joel Grey played him in George M! (1968). book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p111
George M! missed the Tony Award deadline, opening just after a season that included The Happy Time, How Now, Dow Jones, Ilya, Darling, and Tony-winner Hallelujah, Baby!—all flops, and rightly so. Hence, Clive Barnes and his “personal Tonys.” By the time the next awards deadline rolled around, George M! was long gone an… book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p346
Bernadette Peters, Joel Grey’s sister in Stewart’s George M! (1967) and the Ruby Keeler-ish ingénue in the Off-Broadway Dames at Sea (1968), had already starred in not one but three musical flops: Lionel Bart’s La Strada (1969); the 1971 revival of On the Town; and as Carlotta Monti, opposite Mickey Rooney’s Bill Field… book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p586
The previous summer he'd appeared on the citronella circuit in producer Black’s 1968 bio-tuner George M! book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p1067
Joel Grey starred in George M! in 1968. book:the-golden-age-of-american-musical-theatre-1943-1965-naden-corinne-j-rowman-litt#p209
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