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.

Performed at:
Shannondell Performing Arts Center
10000 Shannondell Drive
Audubon, PA 19403
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Dates:

performance: July 21, 2006 8:00 PM
July 22, 2006 8:00 PM
July 28, 2006 8:00 PM
July 29, 2006 8:00 PM
July 30, 2006 2:00 PM
August 04, 2006 8:00 PM
August 05, 2006 8:00 PM