George M. Cohan Tonight!
Written, Arranged and Directed by Chip Deffaa, Music and Lyrics by George M. Cohan
With additional Material by Chip Deffaa, Musical Direction by Sterling Price-McKinney
He may well have been the single most talented figure in American theatrical history. George M. Cohan gave Broadway its pace, its beat, its snap. He wrote, directed, and produced scores of shows; penned hundreds of songs; and became the most popular musical comedy star of his era. Critics called him The First Actor, and The Man Who Knows Broadway. George M. Cohan Tonight! starring Jon Peterson, follows the course of his extraordinary life and career.
Starting out as a poor Irish-American kid from Providence, RI, Cohan never spent more than a few weeks in school, But he remade the American songbook, and made America not Europe, the standard-setter for musical theater. In George M. Cohan Tonight!, a song and dance show, you’ll hear such timeless Cohan songs as I’m a Yankee Doodle Dandy, Give My Regards to Broadway, You’re a Grand Old Flag, and Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway, plus a wealth of rediscoveries and songs rich with sentiment, syncopation, and life-affirming melody.
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