Filming The Music Man became a family affair for Shirley Jones, who was secretly pregnant with her second son, Patrick. “Robert Preston and my mom are on that footbridge singing,” recalls Shirley’s ...

Theater nerds love to trot out the fact that in 1957, when The Music Man opened on Broadway, it won that year’s Tony award for Best Musical, and was generally crowned the production of the season by ...

When Harold Hill, a traveling con man, arrives in River City, he convinces the locals to start a band by purchasing the uniforms and instruments from him. His intention is to flee as soon as he ...