Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical: Robert Preston won. Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical: David Burns won. Best Performance by an Actor in a ...

Instead we get an extremely neat, generally perky, overly cautious take on a musical that, being about the con game of love and music, needs more danger in the telling. Director Jerry Zaks ...

Professor Harold Hill in Meredith Willson’s beloved classic, The Music Man.

Warners might have secured bigger screen names but it is impossible to imagine any of them matching Preston’s authority, backed by 883 stage performances. 1962: Best Adapted Music Score.