Meredith Willson's 1957 Broadway musical The Music Man featured the song "Gary, Indiana", in which lead character (and con man) Professor Harold Hill wistfully recalls his purported hometown, then prosperous. Hill claims to be an alumnus of "Gary Conservatory of Music, Class of '05", but this is later revealed to be another of his lies. The City of Gary was not founded until 1906. Willson's musical, set in 1912, was adapted both as a film of the same name released in 1962, and as a television film, produced in 2003.
Meredith Willson's 1957 Broadway musical The Music Man featured the song "Gary Indiana" in which lead character (and con man) Professor Harold Hill wistfully recalls his purported hometown then prosperous Hill claims to be an alumnus of "Gary Conservatory of Music Class of '05" but this is later revealed to be another of his lies The City of Gary was not founded until 1906 Willson's musical set in 1912 was adapted both as a film of the same name released in 1962 and as a television film produced in 2003