Hugh Jackman’s Music Man Removes the Classic Show’s Troubling Subtext. What’s Left?

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The Music Man himself was a Trumpian figure—but not anymore.

and too patently slick to be believed.” If there’s a quality missing from Jackman’s portrayal, it’s, in a word, Trumpiness. Jackman’s Harold is more a wooer than a rabble-rouser, dazzling the town’s skeptical librarian and leading its children in a series of invigorating dance numbers that have been extended to let him and the show’s massive ensemble shine.

”Americans love fictional con artists, because they take the ideal of the self-made man to its ultimate end—a person whose only product is their actual self—and split the world into two groups: those savvy enough to be wise to the con and those dumb yahoos over there.

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