Facebook Twitter Flipboard Email Copy ‘The Music Man’ review: Hugh Jackman’s revival is a huge let-down
5 / 10
'The Music Man,' I'm sorry to say, does not live up to our oversize expectations. Quite unexpectedly, you leave not raving about Jackman, one of Broadway's hottest sellers, but the music woman - Sutton Foster, who plays Marian 'The Librarian' Paroo. She's a wonder and the main reason to buy a ticket. Much has been made of Foster not having the soaring soprano range of Barbara Cook and Shirley Jones, but that doesn't matter. Hers is as thoughtful, funny, threatening, witty, maternal and romantic a Marian as you've ever seen. She never settles for a schoolmarm stereotype and makes 65-year-old lines fresh.

