Cohan’s Little Johnny Jones Premieres

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Article abstract: George M. Cohan’s musical shows Little Johnny Jones and Forty-five Minutes from Broadway helped to establish his vision of musical theater as a distinctive American art form.

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George M. Cohan and his family act, the Four Cohans, were a vaudeville group of national prominence when, in 1900, Cohan focused his ambitions as a playwright, songwriter, and performer on the New York theater. At the time, there were three strains of musical theater: the world of musical vaudeville (Cohan’s background), European-style...

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