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| The Music Man was one of the last great movie musicals from any studio, and it proved to be that rarest of events: a Broadway show that has stood the test of time.
Music Man tells the story of "Professor" Harold Hill, the upbeat charlatan who promises to teach a small-town boys band by the "think system."
Composer Meredith Willson based The Music Man on his own small-town Midwestern boyhood, circa 1912, a quasi-mythical place where the old-maid librarian looks and sings like a songbird named Marian.
The boy is an adorable Winthrop, lisp-singing "Gary, Indiana." Willson's entire score, featuring a combination of what are now standards, such as "Goodnight My Someone" and "Till There Was You" and show-specific numbers ("Trouble," "76 Trombones"),
is never less than infectious. This dazzling production is also as bright and sunny as any 4th of July in Iowa could ever hope to be. |
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Closest to the CTE production!
1. Music Man
CAPITOL
December 1957
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