The set of a train station at Brighton was depicted in Meredith Willson's The Music Man movie musical from 1962 in the opening scene where some of the residents are chasing a salesman onto the train.
He was best known for co-authoring the book for The Music Man (1957), together with his collaborator Meredith Willson, and later collaborating on the screenplay for the 1962 film version.
Meredith Willson (1902–1984) (born Robert Meredith Willson), American musician
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In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, many U.S. town and cities had at least one community brass band, peopled by shopkeepers and farmers and kids; it was the era saluted in Meredith Willson's musical The Music Man.
"May the Good Lord Bless and Keep You" is a popular song by Meredith Willson, originally published in 1950.
The music of Iowa includes such notable musicians as Slipknot, The Envy Corps, Radio Moscow, Modern Life Is War, Unknown Component, Bix Beiderbecke, Greg Brown, as well as Meredith Willson, composer of The Music Man, and Alice Ettinger who was renowned enough to perform in Europe in the 1890s.
Ostrow's first solo project was as producer and director of Meredith Willson's Here's Love, the 1963 musical stage adaptation of the classic film Miracle on 34th Street.