Thursday, January 13, 2011

The Music Man

Robert Preston, Shirley Jones

Cornball schmaltz from the golden age of Broadway musicals. Set in an imaginary reality and populated by a large number of child-like adults this either rose or fell on the musical/dance numbers. For a while it failed but an exuberant dance sequence in a library worked for me.

After that the characters had some reasonably human-like scenes so I was able to watch and enjoy it.

RP was a revelation. Very smooth and polished in all his movements he exuded a professionalism that had me fascinated.

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