"Boy, she doesn't have a very melodic voice!"
"It's a man. It's George M. Cohan."
I also noted that he largely recites the song, rather like Maurice Chevalier used to get away with: For little girls grow bigger every day!
Men are allowed to get away with that more often than women. In his case, he was talented musically, just didn't have a good voice. Vaudeville teaches you how to get around that.
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I remember going to see George M.! with my mother and sister. I think it must have been 1968 in San Francisco one summer when my father was doing a summer sabbatical at Berkeley; I was 12. Wiki shows its being on Broadway that year, but maybe SF got quick access that never would have been available in Houston. I think we also saw Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, parts of which I remember very well even though it went right over my head. I can't remember much about George M.! except that song, which has always stuck with me.
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