Meredith Willson's The Music Man
Book, Music and Lyrics by Meredith Willson
Story by Meredith Willson and Franklin Lacey
Directed by Molly Smith
Choreography by Parker Esse
Featuring Tony Award nominee Kate Baldwin
Illustration by Doug Fraser
Giant American Musical
Fresh off her success with Oklahoma!, Artistic Director Molly Smith tackles five-time Tony Award winner The Music Man. Having exhausted all 102 counties in Illinois, “Professor” Harold Hill gives Iowa a try and soon enough convinces River City of its trouble with the “sin and corruption” of the pool hall, trouble that can only be stopped by forming a boys’ band. Marian the librarian suspects he’s a con man, but she begins to trust him after seeing how he’s given confidence to her shy younger brother. Soon, this “Music Man” has transformed the entire town, not only turning the bickering school board into a barbershop quartet, but himself into an honest man. When the stage erupts with “76 Trombones,” you’ll be cheering along with River City for Harold Hill!
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American Voices
Molly Smith
“If a man loses pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music in which he hears.” — Henry David Thoreau (1854)
