The Music Man - Broadway Revival 2000 - Act 1 

love these bootlegs. Thank you so much! I saw this cast when I was 17 and Luker's performance is one of my top five ever performances on Broadway. MUSIC MAN is a really interesting show! So traditional on the surface but so inventive in so many ways. So much play on instrumentation, song puzzles, really utilizing men's voices, Americana, orchestration that originates from the story; it is thought provoking. Also, this revival was superior to the other. Such a perfect Stroman show.

R.I.P. angelic and darling, deeply missed Rebecca Luker. Craig Bierko is quite good !

John Sloman was brilliant in two of the most iconic numbers of Broadway musical history.🎭 John Sloman, who plays several roles in this production in 2000, already a well recognized a Broadway musical theatre star at the time of this production, is one of the fast talking traveling salesman on the train singing the tips of their trade in time to the rapid rhythmic rhyming beat of the train as it chugs into River City, Iowa. We have the pleasure of hearing and seeing John again later in the show when he transforms his character from a fractious school board member to the smooth baritone crooner of the school board barbershop quartet. Formerly fractious, the school board has fallen under Professor Hill’s spell now croons “Lida Rose” together as we fall under Mr. Sloman’s musical spell! 🙌

I saw Craig Bierko in Harry Townsend's Last Stand right before the pandemic. He was quite good in that.

Craig Bierko did indeed sound like Robert Preston, and Max Casella sounded so much like Buddy Hackett that during intermission the night I saw it, people kept saying "They must have studied the movie." As you can see, it was a great production.

Welcome back to RU-vid!!! LOVE this!

Welcome back!

1:21:09 oh, I’ve heard that ending before with Sutton Foster’s performance

A big sky distance toward heaven compared to recent mundane revival.

30:17 Make way for Eualie’s entrance lol 30:37 If the girls were outta tune it would be funnier. 33:13 KABOOM

Amaryllis gets all cracked up when Winthrop says her name with his lisp but that's not nice to make fun of some people who have lisps because it's rude and mean and unkind but more than anything i know Amaryllis still likes Winthrop and he still knows about how she feels about him and i'm sure Winthrop still likes Amaryllis too.

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1:08:35

Who’s the women who plays Marian?

Act 2 ?

This was the first time anyone used drums in the opening - completely wrong and stupid - the entire point is that the salesmen and the writing make the train rhythm. Classic example of a director who doesn't trust the material to work as it always has. It didn't need Ms. Stroman's help. And sadly, every production since has used drums. Horrible.