Dick Van Dyke in The Music Man

[SongNDanceman2402]

Posted: 8/18/05 at 8:09pm

I read in a Broadway book that there was a short revival of the Music Man with Dick Van Dyke in it. Does anyone have any information on it? is there a soundtrack? thanks!

[Dollypop]

Posted: 8/18/05 at 8:44pm

As it was a live Broadway production, there was no "soundtrack". Soundtracks are taken from films.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 8/18/05 at 9:00pm

I don't believe a cast recording was made. The show played at City Center in 1980. Even though Dick Van Dyke seems like a great Harold Hill, I don't believe he received good reviews. The show is noted for the young Winthrop, Christian Slater.

[Demitri2]

Posted: 8/18/05 at 9:47pm

I saw him in the show at the Pantages in L.A. He was terrible in the part. I was always a fan but his Harold Hill was waaaaaaay off base. He had no sexual allure, played Hill as a baffoon and you never once saw a change in character from a coniving schemer who finally sees the light. Harold Hill came off as Buddy and Albert combined.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 8/18/05 at 10:59pm

"I saw him in the show..."

Since the last masculine noun in the preceding post was Christian Slater, is it he to whom you're referring?

Updated On: 8/18/05 at 10:59 PM

[SongNDanceman2402]

Posted: 8/18/05 at 11:55pm

oh. i'm sorry to hear he wasnt so great.

[The Distinctive Baritone]

Posted: 8/19/05 at 12:29am

Someone else on this board mentioned a while ago that supposedly he was drunk a lot during the run...

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 8/19/05 at 12:37am

My friend played Amaryllis in the City Center revival - and yes, it was a very short run. No, there is no recording.

[SongNDanceman2402]

Posted: 8/19/05 at 10:46am

oh.

[OtherDaryl]

Posted: 8/19/05 at 1:47pm

I saw this on tour at the Arie Crown in Chicago one Mother's Day a hundred years ago. Not terribly memorable, but for the performance of Meg Bussert as Marian (of library fame), who received a Tony nomination the same year for Brigadoon. Best I can find, she's now on the faculty at NYU in the Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions.

[MusicalDirector109]

Posted: 8/19/05 at 4:14pm

I saw the production and Mr. Van Dyke was drunk. He screwed up "Trouble" big time and I also remember his face begin so terribly red. It was not a good production.

[SongNDanceman2402]

Posted: 8/19/05 at 4:34pm

i would hate to pay all that money to have the lead drunk on stage.

[CastAlbumFan]

Posted: 8/19/05 at 5:02pm

Yes, this was during Van Dyke's period of alcoholism. Steven Susskind said in one of his books "He was on the wagon-And not the Wells Fargo Wagon, either."

Updated On: 8/19/05 at 05:02 PM