By the time The Music Man
opened on Broadway in 1957, Meredith Willson
had spent more than eight years developing and redeveloping the script,
the music and the lyrics. Set in Willson's home town, renamed River
City perhaps to protect some very real life characters represented in
the show, Willson brings his memories of growing up in a small Iowa
town to life. It's around 1920 and a lovable, but slightly shady,
traveling salesman is using his well perfected scam to sell (of all
things) marching band instruments and then skip town before the
instruments arrive. Part of the scam is to convince the respected
people
in the town that forming a community marching band will prevent the
moral decline that he demonstrates is occurring all around
them.
But love interferes with his plan and the results are both hilarious
and heart warming.
The score for The Music Man
includes Seventy
Six Trombones;
Till There Was You (which the Beatles covered); Gary, Indiana;
Goodnight, My Someone; Marian, The Librarian;
Pick-A-Little, Talk-A-Little; The Wells Fargo Wagon; Ya Got Trouble
(right here in River City) and a number of classic
selections by an
improbable barber shop quartet composed of the constantly arguing city
officials.
In 49 years of productions, including at least one musical each year,
The Players have never before presented The
Music Man. It's a good time
and a good place to add this wonderful show to our resume.
*Pending availability and licensing
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