Who doesn’t want a big old slap of Americana? What an odd-man-out show this was when Meredith Willson’s The Music Man opened on Broadway in 1957. It begins with the usual old-fashioned brassy overture of musical snippets of songs to come, but the curtain rises with the non-musical number “Rock Island,” perhaps the first appearance […]
D. L. Groover
D.L. Groover has contributed to countless reputable publications including the Houston Press since 2003. His theater criticism has earned him a national award from the Association of Alternative Newsmedia (AAN) as well as three statewide Lone Star Press Awards for the same. He's co-author of the irreverent appreciation, Skeletons from the Opera Closet (St. Martin's Press), now in its fourth printing.
