It doesn't get any better than this slice of Midwestern Americana. Charming con man Harold Hill (Robert Preston) wants to steal River City, Iowans' money with a 'boys' band' scam but finds it hard to skip town when lovely librarian Marian Paroo (Shirley Jones) steals his heart. One of the best-loved musicals, Meredith Willson's 'The Music Man,' opened on Broadway on December 19, 1957. The stage production and the subsequent 1962 film featured one of the Barbershop Harmony Society's most memorable quartets, the Buffalo Bills, and thrust barbershop harmony into a broad spectrum of public light. The Buffalo Bills were the face of barbershop for years, starring in 728 concerts, 216 television shows, 1,510 Broadway appearances, 626 conventions, 675 radio shows, 672 night club and hotel appearances, 137 state fair performances, 15 record albums and a major motion picture. They were regulars on the Arthur Godfrey radio show and traveled to military bases around the world.