Disney Presents The Music Man (2003 TV Film)
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Edition: Music CDFormat: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2003-02-11
Music Label: Buena Vista
Soundtracks:
- Rock Island
- Iowa Stubborn
- Ya Got Trouble
- Piano Lesson
- Goodnight, My Someone
- Ya Got Trouble (Reprise)/Seventy Six Trombones
- Sincere
- Sadder but Wiser Girl
- Pick-a-Little, Talk-a-Little/Goodnight Ladies
- Marian the Librarian
- Gary, Indiana
- My White Knight
- Wells Fargo Wagon
- It's You
- Pick-a-Little, Talk-a-Little (Reprise)
- Lida Rose/Will I Ever Tell You
- Gary, Indiana (Reprise)
- Shipoopi
- Till There Was You
- Seventy Six Trombones (Reprise)/Goodnight, My Someone (Reprise)
- Seventy Six Trombones (Finale)
Free Music Notes for Disney Presents The Music Man (2003 TV Film)
Free Music Review: Only Chuck Norris would be worse than Matthew Broderick
Hit: 1 Stars
Comparing the Robet Preston feature presentation to the made for TV version might be unfair, but folks, save your money.
This edition of the Music Man has been put through the Disney Smoothie machine turning a first rate Broadway Musical into a dubbed over, under-acted snoozer.
Only Chuck Norris would have been a worse choice for Harold Hill and that's only cause Chuck can't sing. Obviously trying to top Robert Preston is a difficult job, but Matthew Broderick doesn't even come close. He's too young to have been a "con-man" with any experience. Besides, Disney costume people have him stuffed into a too tight costume and he looks like an overstuffed cheese Danish.
Disney also continues to over-sex their recent movies by placing Ms Chenowith in a way, way too-tight outfit and has her waddling and wiggling herself down the street. Librarians in those days often worked in closed stacked libraries where going up and down ladders to retrieve a book was common. I can't fathom how the heck Chenowith got up the short flight of steps to her porch, let alone up and down a ladder. Out of place and out of time.
And finally (aren't you glad this is almost over) the members of school board (originally played by the Buffalo Bills Barber Shop Quartet) do a good job, but the original Buffalo Bills brought not only excellent singing skills, but a range of sizes, body types, personalities etc that this Disney disaster can't touch.
Grab the original - fast forward over the Buddy Hacket dance number - and enjoy a classic.
Disney Presents The Music Man (2003 TV Film) Poster
Fresh from his Broadway triumph as accountant-turned-con-man Leo Bloom in Mel Brooks's The Producers, Matthew Broderick next tackled another of the American musical theater's most lovable rogues, The Music Man's Professor Harold Hill. As shepherded by the producers of the multi-Oscar?-nominated Chicago, this energetic TV adaptation of Meredith Willson's evergreen plays up its still-potent metaphors of middle-American hope and redemption via sparkling new arrangements, yet wisely grounds its credibility in the subtle dramatic shadings of stars Broderick and Kristin Chenoweth. Vocally, Broderick may lack the bigger-than-life bravado of the original's Robert Preston, but it's precisely that scaled-down sincerity that carries his Hill throughout. Even familiar set pieces like "Seventy Six Trombones," "Ya Got Trouble," "Gary, Indiana," and the show's enduring ballad, "Till There Was You," seem informed from within, rather than splashed with garish production overkill. It's a brisk, smart adaptation of a true American theater icon. --Jerry McCulleyBroadway & Vocalists Music CDs
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