The Music Man Returns to Broadway 2020 Starring Hugh Jackman, Sutton Foster, Jefferson Mays produced by Scott Rudin and directed by Jerry Zaks with choreography by Warren Carlyle. Performances begin on Wednesday, September 9, 2020 and officially opens on Thursday, October 15, 2020 at a Shubert Theatre

The Music Man is a musical with book, music, and lyrics by Meredith Willson, based on a story by Willson and Franklin Lacey. 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.

The original Broadway production was produced by Kermit Bloomgarden, directed by Morton DaCosta and choreographed by Onna White. It opened on December 19, 1957 at the Majestic Theatre. It remained at the Majestic for nearly three years before transferring to The Broadway Theatre to complete its 1,375-performance run on April 15, 1961

The Dream Cast for “The Music Man” 2020

Hugh Jackman
Sutton Foster
Shuler Hensley
Jefferson Mays
Jayne Houdyshell
Marie Mullen

Hugh Jackman

Hugh 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

Sutton 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

Shuler Hensley

Shuler is an American singer and actor. Hensley’s stage career began in the early 1990s with roles such as Pitkin in On the Town, Joe in The Most Happy Fella, and Miles Gloriosus in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, He has also sung in the Gilbert and Sullivan operettas Pirates of Penzance and Patience and in the operas Carmen, Faust, La bohème and Don Giovanni. And in addition to an early Oklahoma! casting as Jud Fry at the North Shore Music Theatre, Boston, Shuler also played Curly at the Skylight Opera Theatre, Milwaukee.

In 2011 he portrayed American Yiddish theatre great Boris Thomashefsky in The Thomashefskys: Music and Memories of a Life in the Yiddish Theater, a concert stage show celebrating the Thomashefskys and the music of Yiddish theatre, hosted by their grandson the conductor Michael Tilson Thomas. The show aired on the PBS series Great Performances in 2012.
In 2012 he starred as a 600-pound man in the Off Broadway production of The Whale at Playwrights Horizons.
In April–May 2015, Hensley sang the role of the Celebrant in Leonard Bernstein’s Mass, in a concert version with the Philadelphia Orchestra under conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Later that year he appeared in a Tokyo production of Hal Prince’s Prince of Broadway. In fall 2016, Hensley co-starred with Sutton Foster in The New Group’s revival of Sweet Charity.

Jefferson Mays

Jefferson Mays is a Tony Award-winning American actor and audiobook narrator.
Mays starred in the 2013 Broadway musical A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, in which he played nine roles. He performed in the musical from October 2013 (previews) until closing on January 17, 2016. He won the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical. He also was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical and tied for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical (with Neil Patrick Harris). Mays is set to play Mayor George Shinn in the upcoming revival of The Music Man opening on Broadway in 2020
Mays also narrates audiobooks, including The Expanse series.
Mays has appeared in several television programs as well; he notably appeared in several episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as cross-dressing murderer Carl Rudnick, and as Black Dahlia suspect George Hodel in the Turner Network Television miniseries I Am the Night. His television credits include 30 Rock, The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, The Good Wife, Nurse Jackie and The Americans.

Jayne Houdyshell

Jayne Houdyshell is an American stage, film and television actress.She appeared in The Humans as “Dierdre Blake”, first in its Off-Broadway engagement at the Roundabout Theatre Company in September 2015 to December 2015, and then the Broadway production of the play which opened at the Helen Hayes Theatre on February 18, 2016. For The Humans she won the 2016 Tony Award, Featured Actress in a Play, the 2016 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Ensemble Performance,and the Obie Award, Performance. She was also nominated for the 2016 Outer Critics Circle Award, Outstanding Actress in a Play.
Houdyshell’s other New York credits include Harrison, TX: Three Plays by Horton Foote at Primary Stages, Coraline, The New Century, at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center (2008) The Receptionist at the Manhattan Theater Club (2007) Much Ado About Nothing (Delacorte Theatre, 2004) Fighting Words, and The Pain and the Itch at Playwrights Horizons (2009) Attempts on Her Life at Soho Rep; and True Love at the Zipper Theater (2001).
In April 2019, Houdyshell returned to Broadway as the Earl of Gloucester in the Sam Gold directed production of “King Lear,” with Glenda Jackson in the title role.
In 2020, Houdyshell will be playing Eulalie Mackecknie Shinn in the upcoming revival of The Music Man, set to star Hugh Jackman & Sutton Foster.

The Music Man Returns