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Forty-Five Minutes From Broadway is a three-act musical by George M. Cohan written about New Rochelle, New York. [1] The title refers to the 45-minute train ride from New Rochelle to Broadway. [2] The musical debuted on January 1, 1906 at the New Amsterdam Theatre on Broadway and ran for 90 performances
What is known is that Mary Cohan was adored by her larger-than-life father. The song "Mary's a Grand Old Name," written by George M. Cohan for the Broadway musical Only 45 Minutes from Broadway and featured in the 1942 film Yankee Doodle Dandy, was reportedly written by Cohan for his daughter, Mary. [8] Mary Cohan Ronkin died in 1983.
The title refers to the amount of time it takes to walk to Broadway from the play's setting (and reminiscent of George M. Cohan's 1906 play Forty-five Minutes from Broadway, 1906), a coffee shop inspired by one located off the lobby of the Hotel Edison in Midtown Manhattan, a long-time diner for "theatre types...prized for its casual atmosphere, inexpensive prices and matzoh ball soup".
"The 42nd Street and Broadway Strut" music by Albert Von Tilzer; lyrics by Neville Fleeson "42nd Street Dub" by Prince Jammy "42nd Street Dub" by Renegade Soundwave "42nd Street Psycho Blues" by Janis Ian "44th Street Suite" by McCoy Tyner "45 Minutes from Broadway" by George M. Cohan "45th Street At 8th Avenue" by Isao Suzuki Quartet
45 Minutes from Broadway is a 1920 American silent comedy film directed by Joseph De Grasse and starring Charles Ray, Dorothy Devore and Eugenie Besserer. [1] It was based on the 1906 play of the same title by George M. Cohan .
"Seasons of Love" is a song from the 1996 Broadway musical Rent, written and composed by Jonathan Larson. The song starts with an ostinato piano motif, which provides the harmonic framework for the cast to sing "Five hundred twenty-five thousand, six hundred minutes" (the number of minutes in a common year). The main instruments used throughout ...
"Ain't It Funny What a Difference Just a Few Hours Make" is a popular song, introduced in the 1904 Broadway show The Yankee Consul, and briefly becoming a standard. The song is a lament by Abijah Booze, the American Consul in Puerto Plata, [ 1 ] who regrets having to rise early.
Hundreds of musical comedies were staged on Broadway in the 1890s and early 1900s made up of songs written in New York's Tin Pan Alley involving composers such as Gus Edwards, John Walter Bratton, and George M. Cohan (Little Johnny Jones (1904), 45 Minutes From Broadway (1906), and George Washington Jr. (1906)).