The Music Man

By Meredith Willson

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• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0000CLM86
• Release Date: January 1962
• Publisher: Pyramid Books
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Nice placeholder for the movie memories.

It is good to have movies novelized to explain what you were supposed to have noticed, and they also adjust the story when needed. This book, however, is almost the Script and is more like someone telling you what they see as it goes along in the 1962 film. One of the pluses is that there are plenty of stills from the movie. With captions. You will see the original lyrics but no sound bars to accompany them. The basic story is Professor Harold Hill sells boys’ musical instruments. He helps them organize a band while waiting for the uniforms to arrive. Naturally, he is a fraud and does not know one note from another. He is told that he could never get away with that in Ioway. So, the challenge is on. We get to see if his maneuvers can work or if he will get lost in his own dream. The movie/play is a musical; however, the book works just as well.