The Music Man
Iowa con artist
A 1957 Broadway musical by Meredith Willson about a con artist who poses as a band leader to swindle a small Iowa town.
The show became one of the most successful musicals in American theater history, known for songs like "Seventy-Six Trombones" and "Till There Was You." A music man, lowercase, is a traveling salesman of musical instruments or a con artist peddling false promises: He's a real music man, all charm and no substance.
Numerical standing in competition
- librettoOpera's written words
- overtureIntroductory orchestral piece
- choreographyDesigning performance movement sequences
- castPerformers, throw, or splint
rehearsal · orchestra · soprano · tenor · baritone · duet · audition · ensemble
Limited local outlook
- AmericanaHeritage artifacts or music
- IowaGreat Plains farming state
- bygoneOf earlier times
- halcyonPeacefully prosperous era
innocence · wholesome · gazebo · billiards · library · vintage · classic · heritage
score
Numerical standing in competition
- librettoOpera's written words
- overtureIntroductory orchestral piece
- choreographyDesigning performance movement sequences
cast · rehearsal · orchestra · soprano · tenor · baritone · duet · audition · ensemble · reprise
small-town
Limited local outlook
halcyon · innocence · wholesome · gazebo · billiards · library · vintage · classic · heritage · sentimentality
theater
Venue for live drama
- productionMaking or generating something
- stageRaised performance platform
- revivalReturn after decline
premiere · matinee · Tony · Playbill · tickets · audience · intermission · director · costumes · lights
charlatan
Faker claiming false expertise
- swindlerPerson who deceives for money
- grifterPetty fraud perpetrator
- tricksterCunning deceiver in myth
impostor · hustler · flimflammer · scammer · deceiver · fraud · scheme · snake-oil · fast-talk · persuasion
- 1962 filmsLawrence of Arabia, To Kill a Mockingbird, Dr. No, The Manchurian Candidate, Lolita
- Heist FilmsOcean's Eleven, The Italian Job, The Sting, Inside Man, Baby Driver
The Music ManSweeney Todd
Homicidal London barber
Cabaret · West Side Story · Les Misérables · Miss Saigon · tragedy
The Music ManAtticus Finch
music, musical, musically, musician, musicianship, muse, manliness, manhood, mankind