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Tour or Perish: A Self-Distribution Case Study

Time Passages

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on Sep 17, 2025

In the 1957 musical The Music Man, con man Henry Hill makes a living convincing small-town folks to buy expensive band instruments, ostensibly to keep their kids out of trouble. Really, he’s just fleecing them before skipping town, but then the con man falls in love with the town’s librarian. When she uncovers his scheme, she challenges him to not run away and to invest in the community. He does, and by the end everyone is transformed by love and music. The high-school production of The Music Man I was in instilled lessons about salesmanship and the importance, to quote […]

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