Listen "1491 (1969)"
Episode Synopsis
Before Lin Manuel Miranda....before Jason Robert Brown....before Jonathan Larson....there was Meredith Willson, the one man band who gave the world its most American of musicals, The Music Man.
But what happens when the music man wants to change his tune? And change it while being confronted with every major life crisis imaginable?
Join Christopher Columbus, Meredith Willson, and Chita Rivera in a madcap adventure through one of the trickiest musicals to sink on its way to Broadway: 1491
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But what happens when the music man wants to change his tune? And change it while being confronted with every major life crisis imaginable?
Join Christopher Columbus, Meredith Willson, and Chita Rivera in a madcap adventure through one of the trickiest musicals to sink on its way to Broadway: 1491
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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