Book, Music, and Lyrics
by MEREDITH WILLSON • Based on a story
by MEREDITH WILLSON & FRANKLIN LACEY
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Watch the rousing dance number... SHIPOOPI featuring Tyler Jones and the full Zilker cast
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MEREDITH WILLSON'S THE MUSIC MAN
is presented
through special arrangement with
Music Theatre International (MTI).
All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI.
421 West 54th Street, New York, NY 10019
Phone: 212-541-4684 Fax: 212-397-4684 www.mtishows.com
Meredith Willson's THE MUSIC MAN
July 3 - August 15, 2009
Thursdays - Sundays
(approx. 8:30pm; at dusk) [no performance on July 4th]
Beverly S. Sheffield Zilker Hillside Theater Located in Zilker Park across from Barton Springs Pool
An affectionate paean to Smalltown, U.S.A. of a bygone era, Meredith Willson's The Music Man follows fast-talking traveling salesman Harold Hill as he cons the people of River City, Iowa into buying instruments and uniforms for a boys’ band he vows to organize – this despite the fact he does't know a trombone from a treble clef. His plans to skip town with the cash are foiled when he falls for Marian the librarian, who transforms him into a respectable citizen by curtain’s fall.
This beloved, critically acclaimed Broadway classic is an all-American institution, thanks to its quirky characters, charmingly predictable dramatic situations, and one-of-a-kind, nostalgic score of rousing marches, barbershop quartets and sentimental ballads, including:
