The Music Man Review. Hugh Jackman, Sutton Foster and an American con
It's no mystery why Meredith Willson's 1957 musical is so beloved: The songs are terrifically tuneful, the lyrics terribly clever.  But the story of a con artist who in 1912 seduces an entire gullible American town, and especially its librarian, is also problematic in several ways. The new Broadway revival of "The Music Man" acknowledges only some...