Meredith Willson's The Music Man

 

 

Gloriously entertaining and irresistibly spirit-lifting, The Music Man is an American
musical classic. Its effervescent score includes 'Trouble', 'Till There Was You' and
the riproaring 'Seventy-six Trombones.'

Fast-talking racketeer ‘Professor’ Harold Hill hoodwinks parents into believing
he can rescue their errant offspring through his allegedly life-changing music
programme, ‘The Think System’. Taking their money for instruments and uniforms
with the promise of forming a brass band, he skips from town to town before his
credentials are questioned and his fraud exposed.

But he has reckoned without the effect of River City’s wilful spinster librarian, Marian.
She falls for his smooth-talking charm even though she sees him for the charlatan
he is. His scheme unravelling, the ‘Professor’ is left to decide between taking flight
yet again or staying with Marian and facing the consequences.

Brian Conley plays ‘Professor’ Harold Hill. Recently described as ‘Britain’s best
loved entertainer’, his theatre credits include Me and My Girl, Jolson and
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and numerous television appearances including,
of course, The Brian Conley Show.

Rachel Kavanaugh is Artistic Director of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre;
she directed A Small Family Business for Chichester in 2000.

Presented by Arrangement with Josef Weinberger Limited on Behalf of Music
Theatre International of New York.