When I was a band director, I conducted the pit orchestra for the high school annnual musical...that year it was the Music Man. We rehearsed the music on lunch hours for 3 months, and two weeks of onstage reheasals after school at night. One night one of the students showed up in a T shirt that said on it: "This is really the pits." I couldn't stop laughing. [Get it? Pit orchestra?]. I had her show the shirt off to everyone. In a couple of days, everyone, kids and adults had the same T-shirt, even the pianist. They gave one to me. The girl's parents had ordered a bunch of them for the pit orchestra. When the student actors came out onstage to start rehearsal, they slowly stopped rehearsing started laughing and pointing at us. . The Drama teacher said "What happened? What's going on?" They showed her the entire pit orchestra in their shirts. She exclaimed "Oh my God!" she lost it laughing. We had a damn good time rehearsing from then on, and knew nothing could possibly go wrong after that..
@Marcus-Oh-really-yes
9 ай бұрын
I just watched a KZitem interview with Shirley (Shirley Jones on filming "The Music Man"), and she said that she discovered three months in while shooting the movie that she was pregnant with her future son Patrick Cassidy, but the director told her not to tell anybody. During the kissing scene with Robert Preston on the footbridge in the park during the song "Till There Was You," about six months into filming, while they embraced, Shirley's stomach rumbled and little unborn Patrick kicked and kicked, and Robert Preston looked at Shirley and asked "WHAT WAS THAT?" 🙂
@auntvesuvi3872
9 ай бұрын
Thank you, Kemi! 🎺 This is one of my all-time favorites. Cheers to director Morton DaCosta.
@nutjobification
9 ай бұрын
There are honestly so many remakes these days, I really want remakes of these classic musicals. Not necessarily because I think they can do them better, but I do want more people exposed to these classic films and numbers
@davidfox5383
9 ай бұрын
There WAS a TV remake of this with Matthew Broderick. I usually like him but he had all the charisma of a wet rag in that.
@oliverbrownlow5615
9 ай бұрын
@@davidfox5383 Yes. while there are numerous classic musicals that weren't filmed so well the first time that they couldn't profit from a remake, the Matthew Broderick *Music Man* shows that you should be careful what remakes you wish for. There are also many great Broadway musicals that have never been filmed at all.
@johnnehrich9601
9 ай бұрын
This was one of Ronnie Howard's first roles, although at the same time, he also was playing Opie on the Andy Griffith show (as RON Howard), then starred in Happy Days. Later he became a director, including such fabulous hits as Apollo 13.
@ink-cow
9 ай бұрын
Hermione Gingold was a popular character actress who was also a musical caliber talent. She was one of the main characters in the musical Gigi, performing a famous song with Maurice Chevalier.
@stevelambson1628
9 ай бұрын
I was obsessed with this movie as a kid. I learned to sing the TROUBLE song, and did it for my family often, about age 9 or 10. We had the vinyl record album sound track. Shirley Jones was a famous actress also known the Oklahoma! and of course the mother in the Partridge Family. And Ron Howard is a directing legend, and remembered for Happy Days and the Andy Griffith show. I never get tired of this movie.
@glennwisniewski9536
9 ай бұрын
He was in American Graffiti.
@dulcimerrafi
9 ай бұрын
I was, too. There’s a home video of me somewhere where I sing 76 Trombones by heart. I was about 6 or 7 at the time.
@thomastimlin1724
9 ай бұрын
Till There Was You was covered by the Beatles n 1963, and it was the 2nd song they did on the Ed Sullivan Show 1st appearance on Feb 9, 1964. Paul sang solo on it, and George Harrison did abeautiful guitar solo . Merideth Willson, the composer of this musical, was so impressed they chose his song he sent them a telegram thanking them and thought their songs were good too.
@laurabryannan
9 ай бұрын
This show was so popular, The Beatles covered a song from it, "Till There was You," on their very first US album!
@evonnemccausland3531
9 ай бұрын
This is Robert Preston's most renowned performance! He did MANY Broadway performances!!! Cary Grant was asked to do the role in this movie...he said that Robert Preston was the ONLY person who could pull off the part!!! Amaryllis is named after a flower!!! The Livery Stable is where you could rent a horse and buggy!!! The magic of Harold Hill is that he gets the whole town to sing and dance!!! Hermione Gingold was in Gigi, Bell Book and Candle, and A Little Night Music!!!
@TS-pl4tf
9 ай бұрын
All three worthy movies to watch!!
@melenatorr
9 ай бұрын
Cary Grant was all class, both on and off screen.
@barbarawissinger
4 ай бұрын
Paul Ford (Mayor Shinn) was the commanding officer of Phil Silver’s Bilko.
@kallen868
2 ай бұрын
I think you may be thinking of the story that Cary (who was British) was asked to play Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady instead of the original Rex Harrison. Grant said he wouldn't even see the film unless Rex reprised his role. Sinatra was originally thought of for Harold Hill as stated by Shirley Jones in interviews.
@davidfox5383
9 ай бұрын
With a capital T and that rhymes with P! You are reacting to my favorite movies I grew up with...I love all these old musicals, though I know they must be a nightmare to edit for KZitem to avoid copyright claims.
@DM-hf9nh
9 ай бұрын
I don't know if you noticed, but the two songs "76 Trombones" and "Good Night My Someone" are the same tune, played in different tempos. 🙂
@melenatorr
9 ай бұрын
And it makes so much sense because of where and how and why these two characters start and finish.
@ellen6638
9 ай бұрын
Fun fact Shirley Jones was actually pregnant during the filming. When they were on the foot bridge the baby kicked and Robert Preston was so close to Shirley he felt the kick.
@tuckerplum8085
9 ай бұрын
You understand, of course, that the little boy who played "Winthrop" grew-up to be one of the most successful directors in Hollywood history. "Apollo 13" and "A Beautiful Mind." (My personal favorites.) "Backdraft" and "Cinderella Man" and "Frost/Nixon." "The Da Vinci Code" and "Cocoon" and "Parenthood" and "Ransom" and "The Paper" and "Rush" and many, many other great movies. (Ron Howard is a legend.)
@arielvillademayo
3 ай бұрын
Can you imagine a remake of this movie directed by Ron Howard ?
@johnnehrich9601
9 ай бұрын
I love love love this movie. (And hate the remake.) Love the dance scene, Shipoppi, which Family Guy brilliantly did a take on.
@melenatorr
9 ай бұрын
The remake so disappointed me: on paper Harry Anderson would have been perfect, but the handling of the material was all wrong.
@johnnehrich9601
9 ай бұрын
@@melenatorrThe acting seemed stilted. And they didn't understand the supposed era of 1912. In the original, the traveling salesmen are riding in a "day-coach," the cheapest passenger service, stopping at every backwater, and the coaches were bare. In the remake, it is more like a coach from the Oriental Ltd. In the original, they made a replica of an actual Wells Fargo wagon, including the color scheme. In the remake, they didn't understand "wagon" meant any basic horse-drawn vehicle. They made it up like a covered wagon, totally inappropriate (at least I thought so).
@melenatorr
9 ай бұрын
@@johnnehrich9601 Yes - among other unfortunate production and directing choices.
@scottfleck2223
9 ай бұрын
This and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang were my childhood ❤️
@dulcimerrafi
9 ай бұрын
Thank you for reacting to this. This is probably my favorite musical. I've loved it ever since I was a kid.
@kathyastrom1315
9 ай бұрын
One of Mrs. Shinn’s posse of ladies is played by the delightful Mary Wickes, a terrific character actress who at the end of her 50-year career was in the two Sister Act films and the 1993 Little Women film starring Winona Ryder.
@johnnehrich9601
9 ай бұрын
Yes, she was in so many and so recognizable in each.
@dianem8544
9 ай бұрын
The anvil thing at 37:18 never fails to make me laugh. The reveal that he's walking around with an anvil in his suitcase as a product sample is so funny to me, plus that he was carrying it like it didn't weigh a ton. Best joke to me and that's saying something since there are a ton of great jokes in this movie.
@jeandoten1510
9 ай бұрын
Thank you. Thank you for reacting to one of my favorite musicals of all time! I used to listen to the songs back when we had lp albums, and it was a long time before I ever say the movie in color. I grew up to be an orchestral musician, but Ii still love, love ,love a marching band!
@melenatorr
9 ай бұрын
Mine too! Such great characters, and Marian is a good, fully-developed one, who goes through a wonderful arc and brings Harold, all unbeknownst, along with her.
@TheDunadan01
9 ай бұрын
I know it's hard to react to a musical because of KZitem's copyright issues but I'm so glad you found a way to react to this one. I've loved this movie for decades.
@johnnehrich9601
9 ай бұрын
According to Wiki: "Shirley Jones was pregnant while the film was in production. When she and Preston embraced during the footbridge scene, the baby-who would be born on January 4 and would be named Patrick Cassidy-kicked Preston."
@lanolinlight
9 ай бұрын
Lady, you are the audience a filmmaker dreams of. Wonderful.
@ScenecrlyK.S.O.
9 ай бұрын
❤️❤️❤️❤️
@tommiller4895
9 ай бұрын
Shirley Jones was also known for playing the Mom on The Partridge Family. Ronny Howard grew up to become Director Ron Howard (as a child he also played Opie on the Andy Griffin Show.)
@JamesJones-zq7pc
9 ай бұрын
Shirley Jones was a few months pregnant during the filming of this movie.
@lisaowen6103
8 ай бұрын
If you like Shirley Jones , musical that you may like is Oklahoma
@Perktube1
9 ай бұрын
Well now there's trouble. Right here in River City!
@paulnelson7525
9 ай бұрын
Love love love this movie. We did this play when I was a senior in high school. Great memories. So much fun.
@johnmoreland6089
9 ай бұрын
What a sweet, sweet reaction! Hermione Gingold was not in either Mary Poppins nor Wizard of Oz, but she was in many classic films you may have seen, including Gigi, which won the Academy Award fir Best Picture for 1958.
@melenatorr
9 ай бұрын
She is wonderful in "Gigi" and also in her small role in "Bell, Book and Candle"!
@johnmoreland6089
9 ай бұрын
@melenatorr Loved her in Bell, Book and Candle. Well, I loved her in everything she did.
@melenatorr
9 ай бұрын
@@johnmoreland6089 Yes, even the tiny bit in "Around the World in Eighty Days"!
@patriciaschuman4205
9 ай бұрын
But another Hermione, Hermione Baddeley WAS in Mary Poppins as Ellen the maid and appeared in many film roles and I believe her last role was as Mrs. Naugatuck, the woman who replaced Florida as Maude's maid in that television series.
@melenatorr
9 ай бұрын
@@patriciaschuman4205 Absolutely true! And it was in "Maude" that I first got watch Hermione Baddeley's work. She was terrific and her character had great match-ups with Maude, which she often won.
@chris...9497
9 ай бұрын
My favorite Christmas movie is "Bell, Book and Candle" (1958), starring Jimmy Stewart and Kim Novak, with Else Lanchester and Jack Lemmon. Hermione Gingold is also in this Christmas film as well as in "The Music Man" (the Mayor's wife). Ms Gingold was also Maurice Chevalier's old flame in "Gigi" (1958). PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE do a reaction on this wonderful wacky seasonal situation comedy! Robert Preston's two best films is "The Music Man" and "Victor Victoria". The little boy is Ron Howard, who plays Winthrop the lisping boy, grew up to be a well-known, well-respected film director. Actually, pool halls were places of known ill-repute. It encourages smoking, drinking, bad language, fighting, and gambling. And if there are any in such a small town, ladies of the night would most likely go there.
@patriciagerresheim2500
8 ай бұрын
If you listen carefully, you can hear that 'Goodnight, My Someone' has the same basic melody as 'Seventy-Six Trombones', but slower and in a waltz tempo (3/4) instead of a march (4/4).
@romyromy4440
9 ай бұрын
Very good! Happy this request was made. Thank you!!!!
@ronsadventures2007
5 ай бұрын
Originally frank sinatra was going to play Harold hill. Until Meredith Wilson said if you don’t use Robert Preston you don’t make the movie.. so Sinatra was out and Preston was in
@garybassin1651
9 ай бұрын
It's been one of my favorites for over 60 years. Not only is it one of the best adaptations from Broadway stage to screen, but a dear friend, Gary, was one of the dancers in it.
@academyofshem
9 ай бұрын
Lived in Iowa in the late 50s/early 60s in a little town not unlike River City (Marshalltown). Meredith Wilson's ode to life in small-town Iowa always held a special place in my heart...
@johnnehrich9601
9 ай бұрын
"Till There Was You" was sung by the Beatles a few years later.
@ParkerAllen2
9 ай бұрын
I've loved this movie since I was a kid and that was a long time ago - it's fun to experience it again with someone who's experiencing it for the first time. And I guess I still have a bit of a crush on Shirley Jones.
@JDdiGriz
9 ай бұрын
My two favorite Robert Preston movies are the Music Man and the Last Starfighter, He was a very versatile actor,
@luvlgs1
9 ай бұрын
excellent! i've been waiting for someone to react to this one
@carm3d
9 ай бұрын
Robert Preston played the role of Centauri in "The Last Starfighter" in 1984. Preston considered Centauri to be essentially the same character as Harold Hill. So if you want more of Harold, you know where to look.
@kendramalm8811
9 ай бұрын
Ye gods! I love this movie & your reaction!
@kathyastrom1315
9 ай бұрын
I love this movie! I saw it on stage back in the early ‘80s. Dick Van Dyke was the big star playing Harold Hill, but he was sick for our show so we got the understudy, who was really good!
@academyofshem
9 ай бұрын
Sick, or really drunk.
@71lizgoeshardt
9 ай бұрын
BALZAC
@davidthomas7456
9 ай бұрын
I think you are gerring Hermione Gingold and Hermone Baddely confused. Gingold was in Gigi and Baddely was in Mary Poppins as well as The Unsinkable Molly Brown. Another movie you should see.
@oliverbrownlow5615
9 ай бұрын
Baddeley also has a role in in Disney's live-action musical, *The Happiest Millionaire* (1967).
@195511SM
9 ай бұрын
We did this in junior high.The Buffalo Bills was the name of the group that played the singing quartet (...'Lida Rose'...)& I believe the clock tower in 'Back To The Future' also filled in as the town square in this film.
@kallen868
2 ай бұрын
Yes.
@itt23r
9 ай бұрын
That was, by the way, director Ron Howard's (CINDERELLA MAN, A BEAUTIFUL MIND, APOLLO 13, WILLOW) first movie, but not as a director. He played Winthorp.
@macedindu829
5 ай бұрын
Ronnie Howard turned out OK.
@courtneywallace871
9 ай бұрын
Thank you John C for requesting this. I can’t believe no other reactor has done this. Love this movie. I probably also love this so much, as I was in a community theater production of this when I was eleven.
@tommarks3726
16 күн бұрын
OMG 8 months ago? how did I miss this? This is one of my all time favorite musicals. Everything about this is GOLD. Love the reaction. They don't make stuff like this anymore. I am going to watch this twice..at least. Robert Preston just bounces around like he is Tigger. Such Carisma. He could sell water to a drowning man.
@courtneyraymer6586
9 ай бұрын
Your reactions were as heartwarming as the movie. The man responsible for “The Music Man” was Meredith Willson. He was inspired by his childhood in a small Iowa town,hence the place and time, 1912. He was a musical prodigy and studied as a teenager and young man under another famous musician, John Philip Sousa.
@luvsumkahlua7730
9 ай бұрын
😂GREAT! THIS MUSICAL,😢 I TRUELY... I... My Sisters Love this Musical,🎵 "Gary, Indiana...!" 🎶
@clairemendoza8082
9 ай бұрын
God Bless to you lovely lady from my mom and I in So. Cal USA 🇺🇸 please check out Phantom Of The Opera my favorite musical! ❤️❤️ Shirley Jones was amazing in this! Check her out in Oklahoma and Carousel! Beautiful voice!! Love to you and love to all reading this from wherever you are tuning in from! Merry Christmas 🎄🎁 darling!!
@emilyrln
8 ай бұрын
Oh my GOD this is my favorite movie of ALL TIME!!!!!!!!! 😭 💕 💕 💕
@artbagley1406
7 ай бұрын
Way to go JOHN C. and SCENE'crly, K.S.O.!!! Somebody finally discovered this wonderful movie to react to. Now that I''ve seen somebody try to do a musical, I can see the hurdle to doing a smooth job -- sorry to say, "It's the songs!" But you managed quite well, K.S.O. despite the plethora of music.
@barbarawissinger
4 ай бұрын
I was born in Gary, Indiana & cannot escape this film. Luckily it was a childhood favorite. The Wells Fargo Wagon is the best song here.
@BroadwayBound009
8 ай бұрын
I am loving your musical reactions!!!! Not enough people react to them and as someone who works in theatre professional (behind the scenes) it makes me so happy to watch people discover the magic of musicals. I want to recommend a few pro shots (filmed live performances instead of movie musicals) I HIGHLY reccomend; Billy Elliot live (hardest child role ever. Based on the hit movie. Music by Elton John) Hamilton (about Alexander hamilton and the other founding fathers told in a contemporary way, written by Lin Manuel Miranda) Newsies the musical (based on the Disney movie about the newsboy strike in nyc. Insane dancing) Come from away (based on real life people and their stories when their plan got grounded on 9/11) Waitress (based on the movie about a young married women who bakes pies in a small town) All of those are completely different genres/vibes and all really excellent Also shmigadoon is an absolutely brilliant show and the movie musical of In The Heights is great too.
@oliverbrownlow5615
8 ай бұрын
I think a reaction to the original movie musical version of Disney's *Newsies* (1992) should precede any reaction to the stage version. So too probably with *Billy Elliot,* which is based on a film of the same title made in 2000.
@BroadwayBound009
8 ай бұрын
@@oliverbrownlow5615 not necessarily, the order you watch them doesn’t exactly change or determine enjoyment. I have seen many musicals based on movies before I saw the movie and vice versa. I have both liked and disliked different ones. Plenty of people have seen movie musicals without having seen the stage productions.
@glenngill8716
5 ай бұрын
On the list of my favourite musicals 😊 You need to see Paul Ford (the mayor) in one of the best comedy series ever Sgt Bilko or otherwise called The Phil Silvers show, over 60 years old but still funny
@jenniferkasowicz9463
9 ай бұрын
I’ve always struggled with this musical. I love the music and production. But, it’s ultimately a con man who wins out in the end, at the expense of many. No matter what he brought to the community. Moral dilemma. 😉 Kind of the same as “School of Rock”, now that I think about it. Too bad to lie and embezzle money to make a positive impact.
@boomeister2
Ай бұрын
The Buffalo Bills are what is called a "Barbershop Quartet"
@channelthree9424
8 ай бұрын
I have known Meredith Wilson (he wrote the lyrics and the music for this musical) from his time on the Burns And Allen Radio Show
@bookwoman53
9 ай бұрын
When I started studying for my masters degree in library science my friend Sharon began to sing the song about Marion the Librarian. Soon afterwards I watched the movie.
@johnnehrich9601
9 ай бұрын
He is trying to get all the parents upset by the introduction of a pool table which from our viewpoint, is no different in terms of morality with a billiard table (because it has pockets - oh, mine!)
@klb9142
9 ай бұрын
The woman you recognized p;ayed the maid in Mary Poppins.
@royveteto4134
20 күн бұрын
in mason city , iowa is a museum dedicated to meredith wilson and the music man
@priscillahernandez1967
9 ай бұрын
Have you ever seen The Christmas shoes ?because you really should
@hettabaker1769
9 ай бұрын
I come to your wonderful energy of kindness and bravery ❤
@jessquinn6106
9 ай бұрын
This was a summer tradition to watch growing up. My mother loved the movie and we got to see a special theater production of it with Luciel Ball's daughter. In HS we did it in Drama Club. The songs are still stuck in my head.
@donburks4464
9 ай бұрын
this is one of two of my favorites the other is Hello Dolly its a great musical
@papepipopu97
9 ай бұрын
the new hunger games movie is out on streaming now, hope you can watch it!
@jujubegold
9 ай бұрын
Did I see an earlier notice that you were doing a reaction to “while you were sleeping?”
@Wellch
3 ай бұрын
1:44 almost could be rap….
@barbarastrayhorn4667
9 ай бұрын
The Buffalo Bill's were discovered. I think director saw them and decided they had to be in the movie. Great barbershop quartet.
@oliverbrownlow5615
9 ай бұрын
I presume he discovered them in the original Broadway production, in which they played the same roles they do in the movie.
@thomastimlin1724
9 ай бұрын
If little Ronnie Howard was this great as an child actor it's no wonder he became one of Hollywood's finest film directors. He gave similar performances, giving his all, on certain episodes of the Andy Griffith Show as well.
@oliverbrownlow5615
9 ай бұрын
Ronnie Howard was a great child actor, who went on to an illustrious career. He's both adorable and touching here, as needed, but his singing is cringeworthy at best. It sorta works anyway, because the point of Winthrop's character arc is not that Harold Hill makes him a great singer (let alone musician), but simply that he brings Winthrop out of his shell. I sometimes wonder, though, how Eddie Hodges, the original Winthrop on Broadway (who was a much better singer), felt while watching Howard's performance. Hodges had aged out of the role by the time the movie was made, but his vocal performance as Winthrop is preserved on *The Music Man* 's Grammy-winning Original Broadway Cast Album, and he went on to perform singing roles in several movies, including *A Hole in the Head* (1960), in which he introduced tbe song "High Hopes" with Frank Sinatra, and the Disney films, *Summer Magic* (1963) and *The Happiest Millionaire* (1967). He even had a hit single unrelated to his stage or movie roles, "I'm Gonna Knock On Your Door" (1961). He also appeared in the (non-singing) title role in *The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn* (1960).
@johnnehrich9601
9 ай бұрын
There was a well-known legend that at one point after Columbus had returned from his initial voyage, several people tried to put him down as no big deal in "discovering" the new world, it was so obvious. He challenged them to make an egg stand on end. They tried vainly to get it to balance. When they gave up, he pushed the end of the egg down on the table to crush it enough to create a flat spot so it would stand. The point was that it is easy to claim how easy something is, AFTER the fact. (Sort of like when Sherlock Holmes explained to Watson how he deduced a client's particulars, and then Watson would say "oh, that's simple." Or when a magician stuns an audience, but the trick seems so simple when explained.) By the way, Gary Indiana was NOT named after Eldridge GERRY of judicial fame, who created the trick we still call gerrymandering, soft "g." The mayor's daughter, Zaneeta, in the ice cream parlor talks about the Capulets and blood in the market place. That was the name of one of the feuding families in Romeo & Juliet. In The Sadder but Wiser Girl for me, he wants "Hester to win just one more 'A,'" Hester Prynne, from the Scarlet Letter, meaning committing adultery.
@DanielOrme
9 ай бұрын
He says "Elbert Gary of judiciary fame." Gary had been a judge, but he became famous as the founder and chairman of the board of U.S. Steel. Gary was a steel making town, and was named for Elbert Gary.
@johnnehrich9601
9 ай бұрын
@@DanielOrme I think you are absolutely right (although my answer would have been funnier.) I suggest your make your comment a primary comment and I will then delete mine shortly after.
@daveb9920
9 ай бұрын
So sorry I missed the premiere. I had some shipoopie come up 😢
@ScenecrlyK.S.O.
9 ай бұрын
❤️❤️
@booblys2
9 ай бұрын
Did you know the actress who played Marion was pregnant & had to wear a corset!!!
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