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Stageography
List Of Full Length Plays Produced By George M. Cohan
Year
|
Title
|
Opening Night
|
Theater
|
Stars
|
1901
|
The Governor's Son*
|
2/25
|
Savoy
|
The Four Cohans & Ethel Levey
|
1903
|
Running For Office*
|
4/27
|
14th Street
|
The Four Cohans, Ethel Levey, Fred Niblo
|
|
Mother Goose +
|
12/2
|
The New Amsterdam
|
Klaw & Erlanger, Producers
|
1904
|
Little Johnny Jones*
|
11/7
|
Liberty
|
George, Jerry, Nellie Cohan, Ethel Levey, Donald Brian, Tom Lewis
|
1906
|
45 Minutes From Broadway*
|
1/1
|
The New Amsterdam
|
Fay Templeton, Victor Moore, Donald Brian
|
|
George Washington Jr.*
|
2/12
|
Herald Square
|
George, Jerry, Nellie Cohan, Ethel Levey
|
|
Popularity*
|
10/1
|
Wallach
|
Thomas Ross
|
1907
|
The Honeymooners*
|
6/3
|
Aerial Gardens
|
George, Jerry, Nellie Cohan
|
|
The Talk Of New York*
|
12/3
|
Knickerbocker
|
Victor Moore
|
1908
|
50 Miles From Boston*
|
2/3
|
Garrick
|
Edna Wallace Hopper
|
|
The Yankee Prince*
|
4/28
|
Knickerbocker
|
The Four Cohans
|
|
The American Idea*
|
10/5
|
New York
|
Trixie Freganza
|
1909
|
Cohan & Harris Minstrels*
|
8/16
|
New York
|
George "Honey Boy" Evans, Julian Eltinge
|
|
The Fortune Hunter
|
9/4
|
Gaiety
|
John Barrymore
|
|
The Man Who Owns Broadway*
|
10/11
|
New York
|
Raymond Hitchcock
|
1910
|
Get Rich Quick Wallingford*
|
9/19
|
Gaiety
|
Hale Hamilton, Edward Ellis
|
|
The Aviator
|
12/6
|
Astor
|
Wallace Eddinger
|
1911
|
The Little Millionaire*
|
9/25
|
Cohan
|
George, Jerry & Nellie Cohan, Tom Lewis
|
|
The Only Son
|
10/16
|
Gaiety
|
Wallace Eddinger
|
|
The Red Widow
|
11/6
|
Astor
|
Raymond Hitchcock
|
1912
|
Officer 666
|
1/29
|
Gaiety
|
Wallace Eddinger
|
|
Broadway Jones*
|
9/23
|
Cohan
|
George, Jerry & Nellie Cohan, Lila Rhodes
|
|
Hawthorne Of The USA
|
11/4
|
Astor
|
Douglas Fairbanks
|
|
Stop Theif
|
12/25
|
Gaiety
|
Frank Bacon
|
1913
|
Nearly Married
|
9/5
|
Gaiety
|
Bruce McRae, Ruth Sheply
|
|
Seven Keys To Baldpate*
|
9/22
|
Astor
|
Wallace Eddinger
|
1914
|
The Beauty Shop
|
4/13
|
Astor
|
Raymond Hitchcock
|
|
It Pays To Advertise
|
9/8
|
Cohan
|
Grant Mitchell
|
|
The Miracle Man*
|
9/21
|
Astor
|
Frank Bacon
|
|
Hello Broadway*
|
12/25
|
Astor
|
George M. Cohan, William Collier
|
1915
|
Young America
|
8/28
|
Astor
|
Otto Kruger
|
|
House Of Glass
|
9/1
|
Candler
|
Mary Ryan
|
|
Hit The Trail Holliday*
|
9/13
|
Astor
|
Fred Niblo
|
1916
|
Cohan Revue Of 1916*
|
2/9
|
Astor
|
Charles Winninger
|
|
The Intruder
|
9/26
|
Cohan & Harris
|
Frank Kemble Cooper
|
|
Captain Kidd Jr.
|
11/13
|
Cohan & Harris
|
Otto Kruger
|
1917
|
The Willow Tree
|
3/6
|
Cohan & Harris
|
Fay Bainter
|
|
A Tailor-Made Man
|
8/27
|
Cohan & Harris
|
Grant Mitchell
|
|
The King
|
11/20
|
Cohan
|
Leo Ditrichstein
|
|
Going Up
|
12/25
|
Liberty
|
Frank Craven, Ruth Donnelly, Donald Meek
|
|
Cohan Revue Of 1918*
|
12/31
|
New Amsterdam
|
Nora Bayes, Charles Winninger
|
1918
|
The Little Teacher
|
2/4
|
Playhouse
|
Mary Ryan
|
|
Once Upon A Time
|
4/15
|
Fulton
|
Chauncey Olcott
|
|
Out There +
|
5/17
|
Century
|
George M. Cohan, Laurette Taylor, Minnie Maddern Fiske, George Arliss
|
|
Three Faces East
|
8/13
|
Cohan & Harris
|
Emmett Corrigan, Violet Heming
|
|
The Matinee Hero
|
10/7
|
Vanderbuilt
|
Leo Ditrichstein
|
|
A Prince There Was*
|
12/24
|
Cohan
|
George M. Cohan
|
|
The Voice Of McConnell*
|
12/25
|
Manhattan Opera
|
Chauncey Olcott
|
1919
|
Mis' Nelly Of New Orleans
|
2/4
|
Henry Miller
|
Minnie Maddern Fiske
|
|
The Royal Vagabond*
|
2/17
|
Cohan & Harris
|
Frederick Santley, Tessa Kosta
|
1920
|
The Acquittal**
|
1/5
|
Cohan & Harris
|
William Harrigan, Chrystal Herne
|
|
Genius And The Crowd
|
9/6
|
Cohan
|
George Renavent
|
|
The Tavern
|
9/27
|
Cohan
|
Arnold Daly
|
|
The Meanest Man In The World*
|
10/12
|
Hudson
|
Frank Thomas
|
|
Mary
|
10/18
|
Knickerbocker
|
Janet Velie, Jack McGowan
|
1921
|
Nemesis
|
4/4
|
Hudson
|
Emmett Corrigan
|
|
The O'Brien Girl
|
10/3
|
Liberty
|
Elizabeth Hines
|
1922
|
Madeleine & The Movies*
|
3/6
|
Gaiety
|
Georgette Cohan
|
|
So This Is London**
|
8/30
|
Hudson
|
Lily Cahill, Edmund Breese
|
|
Little Nellie Kelly*
|
11/13
|
Liberty
|
Elizabeth Hines, Charles King
|
1923
|
Two Fellows & A Girl**
|
7/19
|
Vanderbuilt
|
John Halliday, Alan Dinehart
|
|
The Rise Of Rose O'Reily*
|
12/25
|
Liberty
|
Virginia O'Brien, Jack McGowan
|
|
The Song & Dance Man*
|
12/31
|
Hudson
|
George M. Cohan
|
1925
|
American Born*
|
10/5
|
Hudson
|
George M. Cohan
|
1926
|
The Hometowners*
|
8/23
|
Hudson
|
Robert McWade
|
|
Yellow
|
9/21
|
National
|
Chester Morris, Spencer Tracy
|
1927
|
The Baby Cyclone*
|
9/12
|
Henry Miller
|
Grant Mitchell, Spencer Tracy
|
|
The Merry Malones*
|
9/26
|
Erlanger
|
George M. Cohan
|
|
Los Angeles
|
12/19
|
Hudson
|
Francis Dale, Alison Skipworth
|
1928
|
Whispering Friends*
|
2/20
|
Hudson
|
Chester Morris, William Harrigan
|
|
Elmer The Great
|
9/24
|
Lyceum
|
Walter Huston
|
|
By Request
|
9/27
|
Hudson
|
J.C. & Elliot Nugent
|
|
Billie*
|
10/1
|
Erlanger
|
Polly Walker, Joseph Wagstaff
|
1929
|
Vermont
|
1/7
|
Erlanger
|
John T. Doyle, Allyn Joslyn
|
|
Gambling*
|
8/26
|
Fulton
|
George M. Cohan
|
1930
|
The Rhapsody
|
9/15
|
Cort
|
Louis Calhern, Natalie Schafer
|
|
All In The Game*
|
|
|
|
|
A Well Known Woman*
|
|
|
|
1931
|
Friendship*
|
8/31
|
Fulton
|
George M. Cohan, Helen F. Cohan
|
1932
|
Confidential Service*
|
|
|
|
1933
|
Pigeons & People*
|
1/16
|
Harris
|
George M. Cohan
|
|
Ah, Wilderness +
|
10/2
|
Guild
|
George M. Cohan
|
1936
|
Dear Old Darling*
|
3/2
|
Alvin
|
George M. Cohan
|
1937
|
Fulton Of Oak Falls*
|
2/10
|
Morosco
|
George M. Cohan
|
|
I'd Rather Be Right +
|
11/2
|
Alvin
|
George M. Cohan, Joy Hodges, Georgie Tapps
|
1940
|
The Return Of Vagabond*
|
5/17
|
National
|
George M. Cohan, Celeste Holm
|
1941
|
The Musical Comedy Man*
|
|
|
|
1968
|
George M! (Tribute/Bio)
|
4/10
|
Palace
|
Joel Grey, Bernadette Peters
|
* indicates plays written by George M. Cohan ** indicates plays co-written by George M. Cohan
+ indicates plays Cohan only appeared in
The four plays which don't have an opening date, theater, or star, were plays written by Cohan but never
produced.