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He is perhaps best known for writing the book, music, and lyrics for the 1957 hit Broadway musical The Music Man [2] and "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" (1951). Willson wrote three other musicals, two of which appeared on Broadway, [3] and composed symphonies and popular songs.
The Music Man is a musical with book, music, and lyrics by Meredith Willson, based on a story by Willson and Franklin Lacey. The plot concerns con man Harold Hill, who poses as a boys' band organizer and leader and sells band instruments and uniforms to naïve Midwestern townsfolk, promising to train the members of the new band.
- Meredith Willson, Franklin Lacey, Abba Bogin
- 1983
In 1949, many people, including the songwriter Frank Loesser, suggested that Willson write a musical about his early life in Iowa. So using his memories of Mason City, Willson created The Music Man. Each character in The Music Man's River City is based on someone he knew from Mason City.
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THERE is nothing more disarming than the gentle form of flattery that suggests our children have some unsuspected artistic talent. It is this flattery which Harold Hill (a virile baritone) employs; so cleverly that his confidence trick of posing as a Professor of Music claiming to teach boys how to play military band instruments over-night, succeed...
Professor Harold Hill has developed a reputation among travelling salesmen and none of it good. In order to sell his band instruments and uniforms he promises to form a local student band. After he gets paid it's away - and - no band. He is concentrating this time on River City, Iowa. To focus attention on the need for a boys' band he attacks the t...
Rock IslandIowa StubbornTroublePiano Lesson29 roles, 14 principals, including 2 children, and an authentic barber-shop quartet. 6 to 10 children. Large singing and dancing ensembles. Total cast, 40-60.
Jun 22, 2022 · Meredith Willson. Born in small-town Mason City, Iowa, Robert Meredith Willson based The Music Man on his own upbringing. Willson wrote in his memoir, “I didn’t have to make up anything. I simply remembered Mason City as close as I could.”
Aug 7, 2024 · “Even though Robert Preston won a Tony Award for The Music Man, Jack Warner wanted a big star,” says Debra Warren, author of Robert Preston: Forever the Music Man. Bing Crosby and Frank...
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Jun 16, 1984 · Meredith Willson, the author, composer and lyricist of the Broadway musicals ''The Music Man,'' ''The Unsinkable Molly Brown'' and ''Here's Love,'' died last night at St. John's Hospital in...
