The Music Man - Original Broadway Cast (1957)
Product Details:
| Title: | The Music Man |
| Composer: | Meredith Willson |
| Artist: | Original Broadway Cast (1957); Robert Preston, Barbara Cook, Eddie Hodges |
| Catalogue No: | 8120886 |
| Format: | CD |
| Price: | $9.99 |
Product Description:
Naxos continue their remastering of Broadway classics with 1958s The Music Man which includes some rare bonus tracks featuring Meredith Willson himself.
Although Robert Preston and Barbara Cook put in stellar performances, it's the music that's the star of this hugely successful document of the 1958 Broadway smash. Written entirely by Meredith Willson, it drew from memories of his childhood in a small Midwestern town. Preston plays a traveling salesman/con artist, while Cook is the dull spinster "Marian the Librarian," whose love for Preston's character makes her come alive. "Seventy-Six Trombones" has become a marching band standard, while "Ya Got Trouble" (featuring dizzying fast-talk from Preston) and "'Til There Was You" (with a gorgeous vocal from Cook) remain well known even among those who have never seen the show. The latter was also a favorite of the Beatles, who covered it on their first album.