It took Meredith Willson six years from the day they asked him to write a musical, to the day it opened on Broadway. The show won five Tony awards.
Why did it take so long? He didn’t know the territory.
In this short memoir by Willson, he tells all about it. Every change of producer, change of lyrics, change of location. He even reveals where many of the characters can from, and how he fretted about getting his mother into the show.
It’s a short and easy to read recounting of the trials and tribulations of getting a Musical (and maybe any production) from mind, to paper, to producer to stage and on Broadway. We should all have so much stamina.