The Music Man

[musicalsinger20]

Posted: 1/30/05 at 5:48pm

Please only respond to this if you like "The Music Man"
What is your favorite scene? I really like the Library scene and "Till There Was You"

[zepka102]

Posted: 1/30/05 at 5:52pm

anything with eulalie... she cracks me up

[StickToPriest]

Posted: 1/30/05 at 5:52pm

I adore the entire Beggining of The Music Man.
From 'Rock Island' through 'Iowa Stubborn' all the way to the end of 'Ya Got Trouble' and the scenes in between them.
A brilliant opening trio of songs.

I, also, love the library scene.

[InfiniteTheaterFrenzy]

Posted: 1/30/05 at 6:02pm

Rock Island= one of the most brilliant, daring opening numbers ever created for a musical

I also love Trouble and Marian the Librarian.

[GovernorSlaton]

Posted: 1/30/05 at 6:06pm

Marian the Librarian was the most fun to do when I played Hill, although Trouble was great too.

[Derek]

Posted: 1/30/05 at 6:11pm

i love the whole show :)

[Adoannie925]

Posted: 1/30/05 at 6:23pm

I loooove "The Music Man", but my faborite scene is probably "Gary, Indiana." I love the whole show, so it's hard to say!

[seasons of love]

Posted: 1/30/05 at 6:30pm

oy vey.... i could never pick just one favorite scene. the music man was one of the classics that i grew up on...

[timote316]

Posted: 1/30/05 at 6:32pm

I love, love, love the Music Man! The theater group I'm in was going to do it this summer, but extrenuating circumstances canned that idea.

My favorite song is definately Rock Island.

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

Posted: 1/30/05 at 6:33pm

library scene and rock harbor are great! Timote- i'd like to rent your sig space.

[Marquise]

Posted: 1/30/05 at 6:35pm

it's had to pick but among them most definitely "76 Trombones", "Rock Island", "Marian" (the library scene) and "Shipoopi".

[wicked4good2]

Posted: 1/30/05 at 7:04pm

ahh i LOVE the music man. we just watched the movie in my musical theatre class last week (robert preston version), and i've seen it numerous times onstage. my favorite scenes would have to be "trouble" the piano scene at the puru's with amaryllis, and "shipoopi"

[DestinyBeckoned]

Posted: 1/30/05 at 7:05pm

shipoopi has a special place in my heart, since that was my first acting ever, being zaneeta in 8th grade. But I really like Rock Island and Marian the Librarian.

[KateMusic]

Posted: 1/30/05 at 7:07pm

Rock Island . . . pure genius

[Chrysanthemum62001]

Posted: 1/30/05 at 7:10pm

HELLO CRAIG BIERKO!!! Sorry, I couldn't resist. I saw this in February of 2001 and I will never forget hom amazed I was with Craig Bierko. He is the best part! But seriously, my favorite part is Trouble.

[La Vie Boheme]

Posted: 1/30/05 at 7:17pm

Def the trouble scene...

Music Man is your classic, fun, ol' skool B'way show...I like it

[RumTumTugger22]

Posted: 1/30/05 at 7:18pm

i agree with La Vie

[CatieElphie1]

Posted: 1/30/05 at 7:18pm

I love Rock Island....but mostly that's becuase I go to school there, and my mom and dad work there, so it's fun to sing a song about a town that I know about...but I always have loved the library scene. It rox my sox

[Jon]

Posted: 1/30/05 at 7:18pm

If you have a good barbershop quartet, those numbers are quite enjoyable, espcially the Lida Rose sequence when they sing counterpoint with Marian.

[Elizabeth_DeBris]

Posted: 1/30/05 at 7:25pm

Rock Island! Oh, and Trouble. I was never really partial to the library scene, but it's been growing on me. And Pick-a-Little, Talk-a-Little cracks me up every time I hear it.
"Balzac!"

[wicked1]

Posted: 1/30/05 at 7:29pm

I really loved "The Music Man"! I saw if for the first time a few years ago on Broadway. I had never seen it before then, not even a movie version. My favorite part was the end. I was very surprised when they came out as the marching band. I didn't expect it at all!

[Letty2]

Posted: 1/30/05 at 7:33pm

haha I was Eulalie last year in my school production and one of my favorite scenes was the Madison Gymnasium scene where Tommy throws a firecracker at Eulalie

[LightMyCandle125]

Posted: 1/30/05 at 7:46pm

craig was amazing in the revival! my fave part was when the entire cast came out at the end with different instruments that they had all definitely learned and praticed. it was awesome. i loooooooooove trouble!!!!

[leomaxfrank]

Posted: 1/30/05 at 7:48pm

The opening is wonderful, "Rock Island", "Trouble", and the library scene. Willson's score is tremendous and I believe underappreciated. Bierko's Harold Hill was EXCELLENT - even if a slight imitation.

I truly loved the revival, minus Stroman's infamous 'kids doing backflips' - over it!

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 1/30/05 at 8:17pm

When I did the show, 76 TROMBONES was my favorite scene - I played Tommy Djilas and I got to do a lot of dancing. In the overall show, my favorite scene is the final scene where the kids entirely in uniform march onto stage with their instruments and play for their parents. None of the kids have learned anything about music obviously, but their parents still applaud them and all the children are happier than ever - seeing all the kids embrace their parents - and especially Winthrop's smile (for the first time) can be very moving and touching if done correctly.