"The Music Man" is a play script set in River City, Iowa, in which the fast-talking salesman Harold Hill arrives to start a boys' band. Hill charms the townspeople and sells them instruments and uniforms. Hill meets Marian Paroo, the town librarian, and convinces her to be the band's piano player despite her protests that she does not know how to play. As the band rehearses, it becomes apparent that they are terrible, but Hill is convinced he can teach them to play. Along the way, he has to evad