The Music Man
Book, Music, and Lyrics by Meredith Willson, based on a story by Willson and Franklin Lacey.
The Music Man is a musical with The plot concerns con man Harold Hill, who poses as a boys’ band organizer and leader and sells band instruments and uniforms to naive Midwestern townsfolk, promising to train the members of the new band. Harold is no musician, however, and plans to skip town without giving any music lessons. Prim librarian and piano teacher Marian sees through him, but when Harold helps her younger brother overcome his lisp and social awkwardness, Marian begins to fall in love. Harold risks being caught to win her.
The Music Man
Wintergarden Theatre, New York, NY
First Preview 09, Sep 2020
Opening Night 15, Oct 2020
Closing Open Run
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 Hugh Jackman is an Australian actor, singer, and producer. He is best known for playing Wolverine in the X-Men film series from 2000 to 2018, a role for which he holds the Guinness World Record for "longest career as a live-action Marvel superhero". Jackman is also recognised for his lead roles in films such as the romantic comedy Kate & Leopold (2001), the action film Van Helsing (2004), the drama The Prestige (2006), the fantasy drama The Fountain (2006), the period romance Australia (2008), the film version of Les Misérables (2012), the thriller Prisoners (2013), and the musical The Greatest Showman (2017), for which he received a Grammy Award for Best Soundtrack Album. For playing Jean Valjean in Les Misérables, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. In Broadway theatre, Jackman won the 2004 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his role in The Boy from Oz. A four-time host of the Tony Awards, he won an Emmy Award for hosting the 2005 ceremony. He also hosted the 81st Academy Awards in 2009. Jackman was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia in the 2019 Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to performing arts and to the global community. |
 Sutton Foster is an American actress, singer and dancer. She is known for her work on the Broadway stage, for which she has received two Tony Awards for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical, in 2002 for her role as Millie Dillmount in Thoroughly Modern Millie, and in 2011 for her performance as Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes. Her other Broadway credits include Little Women, The Drowsy Chaperone, Young Frankenstein, Shrek the Musical, and Violet. On television, Foster played the lead role in the short-lived ABC Family comedy-drama Bunheads from 2012 to 2013. Since March 2015, she has starred in the TV Land comedy-drama Younger. |
Cast
Sutton Foster – Marian Paroo
Hugh Jackman – Harold Hill
Shuler Hensley – Marcellus Washburn
Jayne Houdyshell – Mrs. Shinn
Jefferson Mays – Mayor Shinn
Marie Mullen – Mrs. Paroo
Creative
Produced by Scott Rudin
Book by Meredith Willson
Music by Meredith Willson
Lyrics by Meredith Willson
Music orchestrated by Jonathan Tunick
Vocal arrangements by David Chase
Dance arrangements by David Chase
Musical Director: Patrick Vaccariello
Directed by Jerry Zaks
Choreographed by Warren Carlyle
Scenic Design by Santo Loquasto
Costume Design by Santo Loquasto
Lighting Design by Natasha Katz
Sound Design by Scott Lehrer
The Music Man Sutton Foster, Hugh Jackman, Shuler Hensley, Jayne Houdyshell, Jefferson Mays, Marie Mullen, Scott Rudin, Meredith Willson, Meredith Willson, Jonathan Tunick, David Chase, Patrick Vaccariello, Jerry Zaks, Warren Carlyle, Santo Loquasto, Natasha Katz, Scott Lehrer
76 Trombones clip from the 1962 movie starring Robert Preston
