"The Music Man" with the original cast was my first Broadway show as a child. I can still remember it like it was yesterday. I recall every time the Buffalo Bills appeared on stage the audience loved hearing them sing, especially "It's You." It perfectly caught the sound of the era. A shame it's been cut. I've mentioned this before but the biggest response to any of the score's numbers that day was the Act One closer, "The Wells Fargo Wagon." It had a gradual build much like "Oklahoma" did over a decade earlier with the singers eventually reaching the apron of the stage singing at full volume.
Side note: Even at the ages of six and seven, my sister and I wondered why there was such an age difference between spinster Marian and young Winthrop....lol. |
