Trouble in River City

If anybody wants to get into serious acting. Learn this song. If you can master it. you have a chance.

Ignorant gullible suckers believing someone who has engineered a threat.

Actually, I think the fact that this song does have so many parallels to the sleazy way politicians sell totally baseless ideas on the public is part of what makes this show so brilliant.

The great thing, for me, about "The Music Man" is in it's simplicity. Lots of stories try to be this perfectly told, and most of them fail. The Music Man is truly a gem of musical theater. It gets everything right.

Favorite musical. easily

Of all the great stage performances that actually got to be recreated on film by the original performer this has to rank with Rex Harrison in my fair lady and Yul Brynner in the King and I as the very best. We are so lucky that he actually got to do the film, cause no one could play Harold Hill like he could.

I read somewhere that the studio originally didn't want Preston to do Hill in the movie. Thankfully Meredith Wilson (the author) said that if there is no Preston, there is no movie.

Yeah, Sinatra wanted to play Hill. Preston was one of a kind. He was great in dramas like All The Way Home and The Dark At The Top Of The Stairs.

What, they don't curse in Texas? What are you doing commenting on a month old comment anyway? Don't you have a wheat harvest to tend to or something?