Goodnight, My Someone / 76 Trombones (The Music Man)

[@marauder08901]

Probably the sweetest moment in the entire musical.

[@ericeasterday5849]

This is probably the best movie in Musical Theater history!!!!!

[@scubachrissy]

This movie is part of my young childhood. My grandparents let us watch this when we were little and it sticks with me through today. I can still remember all the 🎵 songs. 💜

[@PaulStregevsky]

At the Tony Awards, The Music Man beat out West Side Story for Best Musical.

[@TFZ.]

​@@PaulStregevskyHuzzah!!!

[@Gimmasarutan]

I love how these songs are exactly the same thing except with a different tempo

[@stephaniegittinger7980]

I grew up with this show and didn't notice that until a year ago.

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

@@stephaniegittinger7980 Even a Capella.

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

@@stephaniegittinger7980 Right

[@saracohen9561]

It was so beautiful

[@lucindamobley5492]

I think they did that on purpose to show their love starting to grow

[@stonerrocky]

An act of genius. So creative and special.

[@CrooningForLeftovers]

The great Robert Preston (!!) and the angelic Shirley Jones ...

[@patrickf.4440]

it's when he speaks rather than sings the last word, "goodnight," that Hill realizes what he truly feels. Most powerful moment in the scene! Pat, in Chicago

[@janicemckelvey7096]

I"m so glad you made that observation. I have seen many great performers do this role (E.G. Norm Lewis, Hugh Jackman) and NONE of them understand the significance of those two words. Thank you!

[@tparadox88]

I was floored the first time I saw this musical and realized the "two" songs work so well as a duet. Later I realized it's the same tune, just march time versus lullaby time, and disguised by breaking the first note into eighth notes. Which is probably more impressive.

[@almostfm]

When I was in college about 1000 years ago, the school's band director rewrote the fight song (which was a march) in 3/4 time, and the bad would play it at football games if we were leading at the start of the 4th quarter. He told me he got the idea from seeing this scene.

[@bethdibartolomeo2042]

My favorite part of the movie! I love how he shows his character growth and how she randomly borrows his line. 🤣🤣🤣

[@fluffybuddy1]

Robert Preston is one odd my favorite actors! I loved him in Mame as well.

[@aminsadeghpour1549]

I remember I was about four or maybe five years old when I first saw this musical with my mom at my grandma's house in Santa Paula. My mom and I were visiting my grandma. My aunt recorded the movie on VHS for me and my family. I remember sitting on the floor of the T.V room at my grandma's house watching the movie with my mom and loving it. My memory could be wrong, it's been so long ago, but I vaguely remember crying a little bit at this part of the movie. If that was the case even in my four or five year old mind I knew what was going on during this scene. This was the turning point in the professor's life. he realized at that point he had to make a tough decision, that was by no means easy to make: whether to leave when he still could and get out of town or whether to stay with Marion forever (regardless of the consequences) He realized he could not leave Marion.

[@TFZ.]

🥲🥹 It brings a tear to the eye, it does...

[@devynboyle]

I played the whistling on the flute in my pit orchestra, I loved it

[@rosemarie013]

This cracks me up every time 😂

[@RisaGreen]

Why

[@dorothyculjat5737]

I will always think of Jack Burton when I hear this song sung by Shirley Jones and Robert Preston. Jack was my music man. May he rest in peace.

[@taylortwister5212]

I love this musical I’m in it at my school play preforming in 4 days!! I’m just a townspeople

[@venusa.2571]

Love this watching it at school

[@miaweed2031]

So sweet

[@soundwave6998]

😊Have a Goodnight my someone Sweetdreams until the sunrise 💋❤🌹🐻🖐Later

[@chocowing54]

thank you for this :D

[@cougarhunter33]

I sure hope Robert Preston found himself nice gal and settled down.

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

0:42 What is that he pulls out?

[@aether936]

CircuitsAndStrings 2 Mr Stern a page from a book that would ruin his salesman schemes, Marian gives it to him because she loves him, and he pulls it out because that’s the moment he realizes he’s in love with her

[@aminsadeghpour1549]

@@aether936 and he realizes he can't ever leave her

[@johnepants]

@@aether936 yup, this is the moment he realizes that he got his foot caught in the door. She knew all about his lies and cons, and still loved him because she saw what he could really bring to the table. Probably the first person to do so.

[@aminsadeghpour1549]

@@johnepants He was the one who made her little brother more sociable in the town.

[@johnepants]

@@aminsadeghpour1549 that’s what made it beautiful. She saw that Harold could actually bring something wonderful around if he actually would take life seriously. Winthrop coming out of his shell was the moment she knew he had more to sell than an empty bag of goods. Lucky for him, she is a music teacher and can help with the music side of a band one day lol

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

0:47 What is that?

[@PaulStregevsky]

I think it's the page that the librarian had torn out of the library's copy of a college yearbook. The page could have proved that he had not, as he had claimed, graduated from that school. She tore out the page so his adversaries couldn't prove that he had made up his academic credentials. Then she gave him the page to destroy if he so wished.

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

@@PaulStregevsky Oh right, the Buffalo Bills should've done a Barbershop Quartet version of Goodnight my Someone.

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

@@PaulStregevsky How did it change the song he was singing w/ his duet mate?

[@johnepants]

@@RockStarOscarStern634 that’s when he realized he actually loved her. Before he was just thing to get laid, but this was the moment he realized he had something real

[@yooneeque1]

@@johnepants I always thought he pursued Marian because Marcellus told him that she taught piano and knew something about music. Anyone with a musical background could quickly discover Professor Hill's lack of knowledge in that area and brand him as a fraud. But if said person succumbed to the professor's charm ,s/he'd be less likely to reveal the truth. I think Hill originally tried to form an "alliance" with Marian as a form of insurance. Of course, her physical beauty made the job much easier, and as we saw from this scene, her truly fell in love with her by the end and "got his foot caught in the door".