NY STATE: BROADWAY'S JIM RAPOSA IN GEORGE M. COHAN TONIGHT!
Washington County's Theater Home for Music, Musicals, and Cabaret, The MAINSTAGE AT FORT SALEM THEATER (11 East Broadway, Salem, NY - 518-854-9200), announces its final presentation for the summer season, Broadway song and dance man Jim Raposa starring as Broadway song-and-dance man George M. Cohan in Chip Deffaa's musical biography entitled "George M. Cohan Tonight!". Performances are Fridays & Saturdays at 8:00 pm and Sundays at 2:00 pm, August 12th through 21st. George M. Cohan was a major American entertainer, playwright, composer, lyricist, actor, singer, dancer, and producer who began his career performing with his parents and sister in vaudeville. Maturing to pen songs and sketches and then shows, he went on to write some 500 songs during his lifetime. Beginning with Little Johnny Jones in 1904, he created and appeared in more than three dozen shows that were produced on Broadway. Cohan's many popular songs include "Over There", "Give My Regards to Broadway", "The Yankee Doodle Boy", and "You're a Grand Old Flag". Known in the decade before World War I as "the man who owned Broadway," he is considered the father of American musical comedy. His life and music were depicted in the Academy Award-winning film, Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), and the 1968 musical, George M!
Portraying the theatrical giant is Arlington, Vermont, resident Jim Raposa, whose own illustrious career includes the role of Donatello in the film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, as well as a stint in Cats on Broadway, where he met his wife Claudia Shell, with whom he currently teaches in the Performing Arts Department at Burr and Burton Academy in Manchester (VT). A veteran of the Los Angeles companies of The Lion King and Ragtime, Raposa had not performed professionally for five years when Fort Salem's artistic director, Jay Kerr, coaxed him out of retirement to appear in last season's StarCrossed, in which Raposa played a Gene Kelly-type singer-dancer. Call for cover/minimum information.
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