But somehow Jim Nayder, the Annoying Music Man, finds a way to spoil the beauty of it all.
The stage play (and movie) that best captures the blurred border between honest b.s. and flat-out lies is The Music Man.
North of Greensboro, the peaked Music Man House is set behind a wild gate made from found materials quilted together with wire.
Gary Coupland, the music man and the Kettle member who appears to get the least limelight, says he loves thinking up new shows.
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Land on a one-in-a-thousand hit like Music Man, and you stand to collect a long string of royalty checks from revivals and road shows.
Susan Stroman, the woman behind such Broadway hits as "The Producers, " "The Music Man, " "Contact" and the new dramatic musical, "Thou Shalt Not, " defiantly expressed Broadway's tone.
As the Music Man found, the folks there may be tough to impress but if you can win them over there's no better preparation for the bigger battles to come.
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Cook is best known for her 1950s Broadway performances in shows like Candide and The Music Man, while Grammy-winner Rollins is regarded as one of the country's most influential jazz musicians from a career spanning six decades.
David Vikturek, who runs The Music Man heritage centre in Mason City, believes that the traditional Iowan virtues of neighbourliness, thrift and hard work will somehow help America prevail, even in a world where its economic problems are complex and deep-seated.
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The Music Man was never meant, of course, as a primary season primer, but for what it is worth, it suggests that what Americans really want in their leaders is a kind of boundless belief that somehow this country will always rise above its problems.
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Whenever I see a musical-comedy audience consisting mainly of senior citizens and small chidren, as was the case in Philadelphia last Sunday, I can't help but remember the galvanizing originality of productions like the "Our Town"-flavored "Carousel" that Charles Newell staged at Chicago's Court Theatre in 2007, or Bill Rauch's high-concept "Music Man" at the 2009 Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
Staying alive meant having the things around me that gave me support - my wife, my kids, my friends, my faith, but the music, man, I cannot tell you how recuperative the power of music is, for me.
Here's the music of a man who actually watched someone crush his dream.
Cash, long known as country music's "Man in Black, " became a standard for a generation of Nashville upstarts.
It is also about the power of curiosity, which can drive two guys to wander the world to find out about a man whose music they love.
She's quite suddenly a very powerful woman in what's still a man's music industry.
Is he an upbeat man who loved music, impressing his bandmates with his talent and smile?
But the film ultimately succeeds in shedding kaleidoscopic light on both the man and the music.
But once you scratch the surface, it raises more questions about the man behind the music.
Many years listening to this man's music growing up, and a big reason I was inspired to make music.
Williams' focus is portraying the truth about the man behind the music.
For me to sit here and try and describe this man's music is, you know, I'm just pulling it out, you know, my backside.
"Frank Sinatra: The Man, The Music, The Legend, " a three-day conference at Hofstra University, is billed as the first academic conference dedicated to the entertainer, who died this year.
There are still many gemlike elements in Season 3, like a scene in the second episode, in which Antoine a formerly dissolute second-line musician who is now a sober family man, teaching music in a run-down public school is alone in a classroom.
In his downtime, Weller remixes electronic music and attends the annual Burning Man festival.
By the time he died Sir Colin Davis was the grand old man of British classical music.
Only in music was Mr Sacher a public man, and in this he got his priorities right.
Over the years, the musician was variously branded a "living library" of folk music and a "one-man folk festival".
It's been more than 40 years since Serge Gainsbourg, France's "dirty old man of pop" music, released his controversial album Histoire de Melody Nelson.
There are also neatly packaged efforts, like "Jacques Brel Returns, " the four-man show highlighting the music of the Belgian singer-songwriter, at the Triad on the Upper West Side.
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