In a key scene from the Broadway musical The Music Man, traveling salesman Harold Hill has just arrived in idyllic River City, Iowa. His goal is to hoodwink the local “boodle bags” into believing that their town is in desperate need of a boys’ band.
Suddenly, he spies the new pool hal…
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