The Music Man (2003)

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This article is about the 2003 television movie. For the 1962 film musical, see The Music Man (1962 film).

Contemporary rethinking of the legendary Broadway musical and 1962 film, updated to reflect a few early twenty-first-century sensibilities. Professor Harold Hill, an energetic con artist, convinces the citizens of a small turn-of-the-century community to form a boy's marching band which he plans to lead. The television movie based on Meredith Willson's musical, The Music Man. Starring Ferris Bueller's Day Off and The Producers' Matthew Broderick and Wicked's Kristin Chenoweth.

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This version reinstates two songs absent in the original film version and excludes one other. "My White Knight" replaces "Being in Love" and another song for the Quartet was also included.
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