The Music Man: Difference between revisions

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Iowa

 

 

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.

* [[Ladykiller in Love]]: Harold, with Marian.

* [[Letting Her Hair Down]]: And taking her glasses off, too.

* [[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.

* [[Malaproper]]: The Mayor is a ''goldmine'' of these.

* [[Malt Shop]]

* [[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.

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