As critic Robert Coleman wrote in 1957, "If you want to be happy, spend an evening with The Music Man.  It'll make your feet snap into a marching step to 'Seventy-Six Trombones', make you reach for your hankie to mop moist eyes in 'Goodnight My Someone', and want to dance in the aisles to 'Shapoopi'!  What a show!  What a hit!  What a solid hit!"

"Meredith Wilson's view of the world was marked by a belief and the inherent goodness of people and the possibility of miracles."