Twenty Years on Broadway: And the Years It Took to Get There

In 1924, the legendary George M. Cohan, the original “Yankee Doodle Boy,” and the father of the American musical comedy, wrote this slangy, funny, revealing, surprisingly self-aware autobiography, Twenty Years on Broadway, and the Years It Took to Get There; The True Story of a Trouper's Life from the Cradle to the Closed Shop. After decades out of print, it’s back! Including a new afterword by musical theatre scholar Scott Miller.Cohan was a successful Broadway playwright, composer, lyricist, actor, singer, dancer, director, and producer. He wrote more than fifty plays and musicals, and more than three hundred songs, including huge hits like “Give My Regards to Broadway,” “You're a Grand Old Flag,” “Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway,” and “Over There,” among many others. More than any other artist Cohan invented the musical comedy and gave the American musical theatre a voice.This fast-paced, charmingly conversational book explores the life and career of one of the musical theatre’s most important figures, while it also chronicles the American theatre from the 1870s to the 1940s. Read more