Fifty Miles From Boston Theatrical Performance 1908-02-03 Garrick Theater 32 performances this "play with music" dedicated to Cohan's idol Ned Harrigan of the old song and dance Irish vaudeville dance team of Harrigan and Hart. Harrigan had retired from the stage, and Broadway had more or less forgotten him. But Cohan remembered and invited him to the first night opening: there Harrigan discovered that one of the principals was named in his honor. Playing the role of Cohan's Harrigan was George Parson. The song that stopped the show was "H-A-R-R-I-G-A-N" one of the last song and dance songs Cohan wrote for Broadway that entered into his classical canon. Performing Arts Encyclopedia http://www.loc.gov/performingarts Tap Dance America http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/tda/tda-home.html tda IHAS 151216 loc.music.tda.1483