The Music Man

The Music Man will help us all defy the passage of time with pure Iowa corn with wonderful music, engaging characters, and an uplifting story. It’s sentimental, nostalgic, gentle, and innocent; qualities we need in today’s world. Meredith Willson’s quintessential slice of Americana, The Music Man follows brash, fast-talking traveling salesman Harold Hill as he cons the people of River City, Iowa into buying instruments and uniforms for a boy’s band he vows to organize- this despite the fact he doesn’t know a trombone from a treble clef. His plans to skip town with the cash are foiled when he falls for Marian the librarian, ultimately won over by the charms of small-town simplicity and homespun virtue, and transformed into respectable citizen by curtain’s fall.

The memorable tunes include “Ya Got Trouble,” “Good Night My Someone,” “Seventy-Six Trombones,” “Wells Fargo Wagon,” “Till There Was You” & “Gary, Indiana.”