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Today in Musical History: Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway

Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway, George M. Cohan’s sixth Broadway musical, opened Jan. 1, 1906, at the New Amsterdam Theatre and ran for 90 performances, closing March 17. It reopened November 5 at the New York Theatre with the cast almost … Continue reading

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Essential Film Musicals: Yankee Doodle Dandy

“There’s little that’s really original,” Roger Ebert has said of the musical biopic Yankee Doodle Dandy. “The greatness of the film resides entirely in the Cagney performance.” In its 1942 review, Variety similarly noted, “James Cagney does a Cohan of … Continue reading

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