Meredith Willson

While a creative director can do imaginative things with Meredith Willson's best-known show, as Bill Rauch's nontraditional, high-concept Oregon Shakespeare Festival revival proved two seasons ago, all you really need to do to make "The Music Man" work is hire two good stars, put together a strong chorus and play everything straight.

Small Boat, Big Show Terry Teachout 2011

Mason City, a northern Iowa town of 30,000 whose claim to fame is that it inspired "The Music Man," the Meredith Willson musical, enlists physicians from Egypt, India, the Philippines and other countries.

Learning to Speak Iowan: Corn, Pigs, Cyclones and Hawkeyes Miriam Jordan 2011

So MPL is offering, through easy navigation and payment on its site, the ability to instantly "rent" much of their catalog, one large enough to include songs written by Carl Perkins, Buddy Holly, Harold Arlen, Frank Loesser, Jerry Herman, and Meredith Willson, plus pop standards such as "Witchcraft" and "Autumn Leaves"; most labels and publishers merely offer a "browse" feature on their sites to sample assets for consideration with price negotiation occurring separately.

Mike Ragogna: HuffPost Premiere: Zero 7's "Medicine Man" 2009

I know for a fact that this is first Meredith Willson reference ever to appear on clusterflock.

Dear clusterflock: “Sadder But Wiser” | clusterflock 2008

Many of the remakes have forced the characters to become infected with the sentimentality of the premise, turning them into a bunch of mushy fools, like the John Hughes version and the Broadway flop Here's Love a musical from Meredith Willson, creator of The Music Man, who was so totally out of ideas that he put in his old hit It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas under a different name.

Gwenn Common Sense Tells You Not To Jaime J. Weinman 2008

Clarinda has Glenn Miller, Mason City has Meredith Willson who is said to have patterned "The Music Man" after his boyhood there, and Davenport claims Bix Beiderbecke, world famous traditional jazz musician.

I'm Out of Here Mother Jones RN 2007

Functionaries of what Meredith Willson called "massteria" (The Music Man), they schmear fear and a chilling effect throughout broadcasting's artistic community, management and advertisers, while impeding the Freedom of Expression guaranteed by the Constitution to both communicator and receiver.

OH, GROW UP, AMERICA 2006

Later on, she was doing demos for composers like Meredith Willson and Richard Rodgers-no bums.

Playing It Straight With Bill Charlap 2002

Later on, she was doing demos for composers like Meredith Willson and Richard Rodgers-no bums.

Playing It Straight With Bill Charlap 2002

Meredith Willson, already a music director of major radio programs and something of a comic character himself, wrote the score.

The Movies That Changed Us Nick Clooney 2002