Also credited on9 works
Oklahoma!
Take Me Along
Plain And Fancy
She Loves Me
Sunny
Mary Poppins
One Touch of Venus
Very Good Eddie
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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In the literature8 passages
- Musicology professor Raymond Knapp calls The Music Man “the most perfect of American musicals” [242] . Willson had already established himself as a proud native of Mason City, Iowa in his popular radio appearances as a musician and humorist. It was his friend and fellow composer Frank Loesser who encouraged him to write a musical about hi…ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
- It has a surprisingly unsentimental effect. Not that Broadway guru Lehman Engel was impressed: “The makers of The Music Man must have felt that they were in trouble when they resorted to an exercise in terpsichore involving a number of fat ladies in Grecian costumes, and the music reached for adrenalin in the form of an old-fashioned Amer…ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
- Soon this would change. The film adaptation of The Music Man took a chance that paid off in casting the original stage lead, Robert Preston, who had little proven box office traction, but Jack Warner and Cukor were not eager to take a similar chance and allow Julie Andrews to repeat her stage role as Eliza Doolittle. In replacing Andrews,…ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
- Sandy Wilson did it in The Boyfriend, Lionel Bart did it in Oliver, Frank Loesser did it in The Most Happy Fella, Meredith Willson did it in The Music Man and Noel Coward did it throughout his lifetime. Beyond those few individuals, and except for Mr Coward (for the others were isolated works in long careers), I know no other case in the…ebooks/Citron, Stephen/Musical From the Inside Out, The - Stephen Citron.txt
- 223 The New York theatre critics who awarded the Tony for best musical to The Music Man over West Side Story will never outlive that ludicrous injustice. One explanation is that an innovative musical like West Side Story resisted formula and may not have been understood by them on a single hearing.ebooks/Citron, Stephen/Musical From the Inside Out, The - Stephen Citron.txt
- At the end of The Music Man , Harold Hill is in love for real with Marian. His con has turned out to have actual value for the citizens of River City. And he’s a changed man.ebooks/Cuden, Steve/Beating Broadway_ How to Create Stories for Musicals That Get Standing Ovations - Steve Cuden.txt
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