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5 unusual facts about The Music Man


Arion Band

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, many U.S. town and cities had at least one community brass band, peopled by shopkeepers and farmers and kids; it was the era saluted in Meredith Willson's musical The Music Man.

Beth Kephart

I loved to perform, with my brother and sister, to the sound tracks of The Music Man or My Fair Lady or Windjammer.

Beverley Acres Public School

In 2007, Beverley Acres Public School celebrated 50 years of education with BBQ and a rehearsal of all the after school plans, including the musical "The Music Man" which was performed by the grade 7 and 8 students of the school.

Brighton, Illinois

The set of a train station at Brighton was depicted in Meredith Willson's The Music Man movie musical from 1962 in the opening scene where some of the residents are chasing a salesman onto the train.

Franklin Lacey

He was best known for co-authoring the book for The Music Man (1957), together with his collaborator Meredith Willson, and later collaborating on the screenplay for the 1962 film version.


Brett Leigh

Leigh began his career on the Broadway stage, playing the roles of "Riff" and "Action" in the musical West Side Story and "Tommy Djilas" in the The Music Man.

Cavan–Monaghan

Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (a 2011 CBC production), The Music Man, Ice Princess, The Town Christmas Forgot and A History of Violence were filmed in the town.

Glen Powell

Powell began performing in professional theatre with roles in The Music Man, Oliver, O. Henry, and The Sound of Music.

Gregory Michael

At a young age, Michael was active in community theater, portraying lead characters in the musicals Blood Brothers, The Music Man, and Damn Yankees, which were performed at the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Jennifer Paige Chambers

She began her professional career at the age of 17, while still in high school, with an offer by Susan Stroman (The Producers, Oklahoma, Contact, The Music Man, Steel Pier, Young Frankenstein, and others) to appear in "Crazy For You."

Joanna Gleason

While attending BHHS she was in the school's productions of The Music Man, The Mikado, The Grass Harp, and The Madwoman of Chaillot.

Joel Fram

He has conducted the Broadway productions of Wicked, Sweet Smell of Success, The Music Man, James Joyce's The Dead, Jumpers, and Cats.

Michelle Latimer

Before being on TV, she was involved in several stage productions, such as Anne, Liars, Adventures of Emily Brontesaurus, Reflections on Crooked Walking, Into the Woods, St. Nicholas Hotel, Atreus, Measure for Measure, Grease (as Rizzo), The Music Man, Anything Goes (as Hope Harcourt) and Fiddler on the Roof (as Bielke).

Music of Iowa

The music of Iowa includes such notable musicians as Slipknot, The Envy Corps, Radio Moscow, Modern Life Is War, Unknown Component, Bix Beiderbecke, Greg Brown, as well as Meredith Willson, composer of The Music Man, and Alice Ettinger who was renowned enough to perform in Europe in the 1890s.

Paul Ford

His stage credits include Another Part of the Forest (1946), Command Decision (1947), The Teahouse of the August Moon (1953), Whoop-Up (1958), replacing David Burns as Mayor Shinn in The Music Man (1957), A Thurber Carnival (1960), Never Too Late (1962), 3 Bags Full (1966) and What Did We Do Wrong? (1967).

Peter Kaczorowski

He has more than 45 Broadway plays and musicals to his credit including "Nice Work If You Can Get It", "Venus in Fur", "Wit", "Anything Goes", "A View From the Bridge", The Pajama Game, Seascape, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Wonderful Town, Anna in the Tropics, and revivals of The Music Man and Kiss Me, Kate.

The Matchmaker

The 1958 film version, adapted by John Michael Hayes and directed by Joseph Anthony, starred Shirley Booth (Come Back, Little Sheba) as Dolly, Anthony Perkins (Psycho) as Cornelius, Shirley MacLaine (Terms of Endearment) as Irene, Paul Ford (The Music Man) as Vandergelder, and Robert Morse reprising his Broadway role as Barnaby.

West Ottawa High School

The fall musicals in recent years have included Annie Get Your Gun, Anything Goes, Once Upon a Mattress, Les Misérables, The Sound of Music, Oklahoma!, Working (musical), "Guys and Dolls", and The Music Man.


see also

Dildarian

The album was composed by the "music man", Sukshinder Shinda and had lyrics by Raj Kakra, Dev Raj Jassal, Amarjit Sandhar, Jassi Jallandri, Amerdeep Gill and Satti Khokhewalia.

Mee-Ow Show

Craig Bierko - Actor, "The Music Man", "Cinderella Man", "Scary Movie 3"

Shenfield High School

In recent years, Shenfield has performed Joseph, Bugsy Malone, Back to The 80's, The Music Man, The Wizard of Oz, The Four Seasons Of Wounded Knee, High School Musical and We Will Rock You.

Wausau West High School

West's drama program had performed shows such as "Little Shop of Horrors" (1995), "The Music Man" (1988), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Grease, Singin' in the Rain, Cinderella, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and other musical and non-musical shows.