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Line 1: {{work}} {{quote\|So what the heck~~<br />~~ You're welcome~~<br />~~ Join us at the picnic~~<br />~~ You can eat your fill~~<br />~~ Of all the food you bring yourself.~~<br />~~ You really ought to give~~<br />~~ Iowa~~<br />~~ A try. ~~A try.~~\|River Citizens, 'Iowa Stubborn'}} ''[[The Music Man]]'' is a Tony -award -winning Broadway musical. Long considered one of the classics of the genre, the theatrical version has been a staple of Summer Stock, [[High School]] and Community theatre productions for more than 50 years. There is a classic 1962 film version starring Robert Preston of the original 1957 production, and also a 2003 Disney remake starring [[Matthew Broderick]] and [[Kristin Chenoweth]]. The story involves a con artist rolling into a small town in Iowa, where the people are generally staunch and cynical of any stranger. Using his charm, "Professor" Harold Hill introduces himself as a music teacher, here to organize the easily corrupted youth of the town into a band to keep them out of trouble. His plan is basically charging them through the roof for instruments and the costs of being a teacher, only to run off when the time comes to actually make good on his offer. Unfortunately for him, he starts to get too into the role and gains an attraction to the feisty and independent Marian, the local librarian, who is quick to see through his deception. Set in 1912, ''[[The Music Man]]'' misses [[The Gay Nineties]], but not by much, and demonstrates the same nostalgic treatment, while (at least in the film version) [[Lampshade Hanging\|lampshading it.]] The 1962 film version was added to the [[National Film Registry]] in 2005. ---- {{tropenamer\|Ya got a Trope Namer I say!}} ~~=== This film provides examples of the following tropes: ===~~ * [[With a Capital T]]:! ~~[[Trope~~From ~~Namer]]. The~~the show-stopper "Ya Got Trouble".▼ {{tropelist}} * [[American Gothic Couple]]: In 'Iowa Stubborn' * [[Author Avatar]]: River City is based on Meredith Willson's hometown of Mason City, Iowa. Line 46 ⟶ 53: * [[Ladykiller in Love]]: Harold, with Marian. * [[Letting Her Hair Down]]: And taking her glasses off, too. * [[Literal Genie]]: A minor example:▼ {{quote\| '''Harold Hill''': Excuse me, do you know where I could find a good hotel?<br />▼ '''River City Resident''': Try the Palmer House, Chicago. }}▼ * [[Love Epiphany]]: Harold has his shortly after Marian reveals that she knew his true identity all along and could have ratted him out at any time, but chose not to. * [[Loveable Rogue]]: Professor Hill. And given how much actual good he does -- with Winthrop, Zaneeta and Tommy, and the School Board to name three -- he earns the adjective even more than the noun. * [[Major Minor Inconvenience]]: The new pool table, owned by Mayor Shinn. You've got trouble, my friends! * [[Make -Out Point]]: Cars aren't widespread enough for this trope to be played straight, but the youngsters can still go to "the footbridge" to kiss. Marian even Lampshades the fact that it's taken her so long to meet a guy there. * [[Malaproper]]: The Mayor is a ''goldmine'' of these. * [[Malt Shop]] ▲* [[~~Literal~~Mathematician's ~~Genie~~Answer]]: A minor example: ▲{{quote\| '''Harold Hill''': Excuse me, do you know where I could find a good hotel?~~<br />~~ ▲'''River City Resident''': Try the Palmer House, Chicago. }} * [[Moral Guardians]]: Mocked. Professor Hill uses his [[Everyone Is Satan in Hell]] arguments to pad out his con. * [[Musicalis Interruptus]]: Inverted repeatedly by Professor Hill who distracts the School Board from seeking his credentials by forming them into a barbershop quartet. Line 60 ⟶ 67: * [[The New Rock and Roll]]: "Ragtime/shameless music" and a whole host other things. Ya got trouble I say! ** With a capital T, and that rhymes with P, and that stands for "pool!" * [[The Not -Secret]]: At the end, Harold tries to confess his true identity to Marian, only for her to tell him she's known all along. * [[Not Staying for Breakfast]] * [[Old Maid]]: Marian. Amaryllis also fears becoming one of these. Line 67 ⟶ 74: * [[Snake Oil Salesman]]: The aforementioned Prof. H. Hill. * [[Sweetheart Sipping]]: Even though it's not [[The Fifties]]. Weird. * [[Take It to ~~The~~the Bridge]]: It's indecent to meet boys at the footbridge. * [[Tar and Feathers]]: The anvil salesman refers to tar and feathers, but since this is 1912 one wonders if he was simply being facetious. Not hardly. If you check out [[The Other Wiki]]'s [~~http://en.~~[wikipedia~~.org/wiki/Tarring_and_feathering~~:Tarring and feathering\|article on the subject]], you will see photos of a man who was tarred and feathered in 1917. Not to mention being ridden out of town on a rail. * [[That Reminds Me of a Song]]: "Shipoopi". Again. Line 78 ⟶ 85: ** And Mayor Shinn, watch your phraseology! * [[Victoria's Secret Compartment]]: Where Marian keeps the incriminating page. * [[What Happened to ~~The~~the Mouse?]]: Nobody mentions anything about the pool table anymore . . . ▲* [[With a Capital T]]: [[Trope Namer]]. The show-stopper "Ya Got Trouble". {{reflist}} [[Category:The Fifties]] [[Category:~~The Music Man~~{{PAGENAME}}]] [[Category:~~Theatre~~Theatrical Productions]] [[Category:Films of the 1960s]] [[Category:Golden Globe Award]] [[Category:Films Based on Musicals]] {{DEFAULTSORT:Music Man, The}} [[Category:Multiple Works Need Separate Pages]] [[Category:National Film Registry]] [[Category:Film]]