It is difficult to say anything about the LOGON production of MUSIC MAN, without raising up all the laudatory words in the Thesaurus.

Wonderful, superb, terrific, excellent, and above all, professional. At a rough count a hundred or more took part in the enterprise. Whole families were involved. Two or maybe three generations of Bennetts, singing, dancing, translating, set making, and others with their children and parents uncles, aunts, siblings and cousins, making a harmonious whole that is not always found in familiaes. What these people do to make a living, and how they can spare the time - or energy

to go to work, mend a shoe, nip out an appendix, or drive a bus, is a mystery. Their dedication is total. And the result is stupendous.

Everything worked. (Well, almost everything, but the glitch with the "special" lighting effects did not spoil anything of the evening.) The choruses blended. The dresses were authentic. The sets convincing, the acting remarkable, the singing brilliant. The leading man Stephen Howden is not only handsome enough to win the heart of any librarian, but put on the attitudes of a brash American salesman that quite effaced his Yorkshire background. His lyrical singing is reminiscent of Richard

Tauber. And the object of his affections (and redemption) is pretty, graceful, charming and uses her sweet soprano to enchant audience, and her mother is like every girl's mother but sounds better. The gossiping ladies as well as tuneful were authentic. Every individual and group- even the kids - specially the kids - were perfectly drilled and impeccable. The teenage sweethearts acted like veterans. The angry papa was only too familiar, the barbershop quartet were melodious.

How the director and choreographer Rosa Howden, managed to meld and accommodate, to reconcile and organize this enormous crowd of actors, singers,

technicians, wardrobes, carpenters, dancers and hairdressers into one magnificent whole is mind boggling. Does it help that she is married to the hero? I doubt it. But for the enormous loss that there would be if she turned her talents elsewhere, I should like to nominate her for our next prime minister.