
Little Johnny Jones
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George M. Cohan’s 'Little Johnny Jones' stands as an epochal, history-making milestone that permanently gave birth to modern American musical comedy, running for an accomplished original run at the Liberty Theatre in 1904. The fast-paced farcical plot centers on Johnny Jones, an immaculate, hyper-confident American jockey who travels to England to compete in the prestigious Derby, collapsing into a high-stakes crisis when an unprincipled rival frames him for fixing the race, forced to deploy detective deceptions to clear his name. Directed by Cohan himself, the show introduced legendary standards like "The Yankee Doodle Boy" and "Give My Regards to Broadway."

