Even as a number of Broadway shows are canceling performances (or closing altogether) for COVID reasons, The Music Man starring Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster has started previewing. It's supposed to lead up to a February 10 opening night but these days, I don't think any "prediction" is solid.
Am I a tremendous fan of The Music Man, Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster? You bet your shipoopi I am! So I should have tickets and plans for a New York trip…but I don't. It's that COVID thing and there's a very good chance I'll never see this production…or if I do, it'll be a national touring company with Scott Baio and the lady who plays Flo in the Progressive Insurance Company commercials.
As sacrifices go, it's a wee one. I wonder if all these folks who want to put Broadway-style musical comedy on prime-time TV have thought about doing this one.
Here's a few seconds from a recent preview performance…just the moment on the train in Scene 1 where when the traveling salesmen get finished talking about what a scoundrel "Professor" Harold Hill is, then discover he's been among them all the time…