… a lot of others may just want to see it for themselves and make up their own minds, without being preemptively nagged about it.
Commentary: 'The Music Man' is the wrong Broadway revival for this crucial moment.
The problem arises when this fantasy is mounted as an upbeat, tidy time capsule, allowing audiences to ogle a version of America that never existed. Ultimately, "The Music Man" sets forth a sanitized, insular and very white America — a vision regularly exploited by a recent president (who gained a following with scare tactics and sold a "think system" of his own) to stoke racial fears and pit Americans against one another. It asks audiences to cheer for yet another romanticized fraud.
I don’t think the problem arises for most people, who understand that it is fiction, a romance, not a sociopolitical tract.
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