Mary Zimmerman's production sings, though the gender politics creak. You can say this for director Mary Zimmerman's staging of Meredith Willson's multiple Tony winner, The Music Man: like the titular con man in the 1957 musical, she sure knows the territory. From the corrupting influence of the bawdy humor magazine Captain Billy's Whiz Bang to the Isadora Duncan-inspired modern-dance ode …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AM on July 10, 2019