The Music Man Chenowith or Shirley- Page 2

[RockyRoad]

Posted: 5/5/05 at 7:05pm

Shirley wins hands down.

And Matthew.....ewwww.

[Lorelai]

Posted: 5/5/05 at 7:08pm

I'll have to catch the Shirly version soon but for now.....Rebecca Luker.

[Footlooser]

Posted: 5/5/05 at 7:16pm

Let me start bvy saying I'm not a big fan of the show to beging with even though I have been in it twice. I perfer the New version because I love the song "My White Knight" Cheno did great and Brodrick wasn't as bad as everyone on here says he was. I don't like Shirly Jones in the original and Robert Preston was great but hell, it's Robert Preston , I mean, would there be any doubt he would be great? All in all, if you are going to watch it I would go with the new one.

[Footlooser]

Posted: 5/5/05 at 7:16pm

double Post. oops

Updated On: 5/6/05 at 07:16 PM

[stylinbohemian]

Posted: 5/5/05 at 7:33pm

I <3 chenos version better then shirly btw do u know that u spelled chenoweth wrong?

[InfiniteGirl]

Posted: 5/5/05 at 8:56pm

Perhaps with better direction KC and MB could have summoned up the energy and charm we all know they possess but definitely failed to bring to the TV movie vers. That thing was unwatchable! Most egregious: They include exactly one person of color in each group shot. Please! If you want to mix up River City, fantastic - but must it be so painfully, obviously token-istic?

[kangaroo]

Posted: 5/5/05 at 10:04pm

I am definitely going to go for Cheno because I love her, and the two songs that you mentioned were my favorite in the movie. Honestly, I don't like the musical all that much... but Cheno made it watchable for me. I know... the tv movie version was awful, but I still sat through the entire thing

~kangaroo :)

[Jon]

Posted: 5/5/05 at 11:27pm

You didn't like the Boy Band Barbershop Quartet in the TV version? They're supposed to be the School Board - they looked like high school students!

On the other hand, Tommy Djilas looked like a 27 year old chorus boy -which is typical.

[BwayBaby18]

Posted: 5/5/05 at 11:34pm

Defintle Shirly Jones.....

i Love Kristin...but the production itself kinda sucked.... she was good in a bad remake.... *tear*





who said the movie was miscast because for the most part you're right...But i think Kristin and Molly Shannon wern't

[The Ninth Show]

Posted: 5/6/05 at 12:14am

Meg Bussert - the best Marian ever. Revival with Dick Van Dyke. It played City Center in the summer of 1980.

[neelyohara]

Posted: 5/6/05 at 12:58am

Shirley. So totally Shirley.

[Mamie]

Posted: 5/6/05 at 1:18am

Robert Preston and Shirley Jones set the bar so high that anyone attempting a remake is just being foolish. Frankly I can't understand why they constantly attempt to remake classic films that are already perfect. There are plenty of faulty films out there that can be remade and improved on. Take "Phantom" for instance.... (I know - not in my life.)

[OnTheAisle]

Posted: 5/6/05 at 8:54am

I grew up with the movie version of "The Music Man" - probably one of the first movie musicals from a stage show I ever saw, so I have a firm bias towards Shirley Jones (the American Julie Andrews, IMHO)... When I started binging on Cast Recordings I found Barbara Cook, who is truly amazing, but still no Shirley. As much as I admire and enjoy Kristin, she just couldn't hold a candle to the other ladies... but she had an easier time of it than Matthew (there's only ONE definitive Harold Hill)... Having said all that, it was still an opportunity to watch a musical on tv, and I'll take televised broadway musicals over anything else any day of the week!

[mikewood]

Posted: 5/6/05 at 9:09am

Bierko definitely was channeling the Great Preston! Is Robert Preston still with us?

[magruder]

Posted: 5/6/05 at 9:15am

Robert Preston has been dead for almost 20 years. Were he still alive, the Broderick TV movie would have killed him.

[OnTheAisle]

Posted: 5/6/05 at 10:10am

LOL Magruder!

For some reason, Music Man has made a big comeback this year on the HS Spring Musical circuit - I've suffered through three since March, and the only way to survive is to "hear" Robert Preston's delivery... he was a true legend!

[MyDreamsRecurring]

Posted: 5/6/05 at 10:48am

The Robert Preston version of The Music Man is far superior to the new version. I love Kristen Chenoweth, but she didn't do the character of Marian justice.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 5/6/05 at 11:11am

Ninth, a good friend of mine was Amaryllis in that production, and of course Christian Slater was Winthrop.

[ConvinceMe2]

Posted: 5/6/05 at 11:34am

In my opinion, the 1963 film version of The Music Man is the most perfect film version of a Broadway musical ever made. It simply cannot be improved upon.