Meredith Willson’s six-time Tony Award-winning musical comedy THE MUSIC MAN follows fast-talking traveling salesman Harold Hill as he cons the people of River City, Iowa. The smooth-talker tricks ...

From River City to the Rubber City. Yes, that’s where musical theater’s favorite con man, Harold Hill, is headed with the upcoming Broadway in Akron Series presentation of “Meredith ...

Iowa-born composer and playwright Meredith Willson is the focus of a new documentary that will premiere next month. Caryline Clark, engagement manager for Iowa PBS, says “Meredith Willson: America’s ...

Meredith Willson's six-time, Tony Award-winning musical comedy THE MUSIC MAN follows fast-talking traveling salesman, Harold Hill, as he cons the people of River City, Iowa, into buying instruments ...

Meredith Willson conducts an orchestra in 1938. What do the Iowa Hawkeyes' fight song and the holiday classic "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" have in common? They were both written by ...

Who do the UI Hawkeye fight song and the holiday classic "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" have in common? Meredith Willson, who grew up in Mason City, is best known for writing the book, ...

Meredith Willson brought his musical talents to a variety of films over the course of his career. Willson worked on a variety of projects during his early entertainment career, including "I Wanna Hold ...

Get a taste of what Iowa musicians have to offer this weekend in Iowa City. Waterloo native Kevin Burt will perform at Wildwood Saloon Friday with special guest Dave Zollo, while a new documentary on ...

In what would be a harbinger of future success, the Mason City Globe-Gazette of Feb. 17, 1914, reported that a crowd packed the Cecil Theatre to see Dixie Willson’s “clever, delightful, musical comedy ...

Meredith Willson was on the cutting edge when he introduced a con man as the main character in “The Music Man.” Those Don Draper, Tony Soprano, Walter White anti-heroes just weren’t around in 1957 ...

The message at the Manhattan radio studio simply asked its musical director to call a Brooklyn telephone number—no name given. When he called, a woman’s voice asked, “Is this Meredith Willson?” ...