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Behind the Scenes of ‘The Music Man’: Inside the Search for the Perfect Harold Hill
The Music Man cast 'became like family' behind the scenes, author Mark Cabaniss exclusively tells Closer of the dynamic of the musical film's costars.
And although Robert Preston had thrilled audiences in the show for three years onstage, a search began to find a more recognizable star to play con man Harold Hill. “And Frank Sinatra thought he had it,” says Mark Cabaniss, author of Miracle of The Music Man: The Classic American Story of Meredith Willson. But Willson, the show’s composer who had based The Music Man on his Iowa boyhood, had his mind set on Robert.
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