Kenneth Jones Playbill On-Line 2 hours, 39 minutes ago Ordway Center's producing artistic director James A. Rocco and Ordway associate artistic director Jayme McDaniel share direction and choreography credit on the musical, which is said to offer a grittier view of showbiz life than past tellings of the Cohan story. Performances play to Aug. 17. Hingston (Broadway's Contact and Curtains) plays the young Cohan, and Richard Sanders (famous as Les Nessman on the hit TV show "WKRP in Cincinnati") is the elder Cohan. The show borrows from the Cohan song trunk (brimming with such hits as "Give My Regards to Broadway," "You're a Grand Old Flag," "Over There" and more) to create a score that meshes with a libretto by David Armstrong, producing artistic director of The 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle, where a version of this project...
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