[JimVT]

My wife of 44 years and I used to be great B'dwy musical fans and have every album from "Music Man", "Most Happy Fella", "Fiorello", "Fiddler on the Roof", etc.

One night,in North Adams, MA, after watching the movie with Robert Preston and Shirley Jones (who also did an excellent Ms. Paroo) I called Mason City,Iowa to tell Meredith Wilson how much we enjoyed his story.

The local telephone operator never heard of him!

[miss marmelstein]

I think that Meredith Wilson was not beloved by the town of "River City." They felt he dissed them in The Music Man. But it still is one of my favorites - the B'way revival about two years ago (with a wonderful singer named Rebecca Lukar)was very good.