{"id":16097,"date":"2016-07-07T07:45:06","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T13:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flovalleynews.com\/?p=16097"},"modified":"2016-07-07T07:45:06","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T13:45:06","slug":"music-man-back-in-river-city-at-the-muny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flovalleynews.com\/?p=16097","title":{"rendered":"Music Man back in River City at the Muny"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Music Man at the Muny until July 11<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“The Music Many” is Homemade Jelly,<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Applie Pie and Sweet, Sweet Melodies<\/strong><\/h1>\n

By Pat Lindsey<\/h3>\n

\u201cThe Music Man\u201d chugged into our own River City Tuesday night with nary a trouble\u2014that is until the townspeople got wise to Professor Harold Hill’s lies and deceit. He promised to create a marching band in three weeks by using the \u201cThink System,\u201d but no one who ordered a band uniform, instruction book, and instrument learned to play one note. The people of River City are so angry that a con artist has swindled them out of their money that they hunt down Professor Hill to tar and feather him, but Marian the librarian comes to his rescue and points out just how much value everyone has received from the man who has failed to produce his academic and musical credentials.<\/p>\n

The year is 1912 and the sleepy town of River City, Iowa, population 2212, gets its news and supplies from salesmen traveling on trains and the Wells Fargo wagon. There’s a library in town, but it seems few people are broad-minded enough to read the books. No one seems to be aware of how dull and boring life is in River City until Professor Hill brings music to key people in town. He turns the arguing members of the school board into an inseparable harmonizing quartet and helps a speech-impaired little boy find self-confidence. He plants the seed for the mayor’s wife to organize a dance committee and empowers a teenager to become a band leader. Little by little, he injects vitality and purpose into the lives of the River City residents and teaches Marian the librarian how to love. And in doing all of this, Professor Hill admits that for the first time he \u201cgot his foot caught in the door.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Music Man\u201d has held a special place in my heart since I sang in the chorus of our Cleveland High School production many years ago. It has played at The Muny ten times and I think I’ve seen every one of them. Its Meredith Wilson score is filled with beautiful songs such as, \u201cTill There Was You\u201d and \u201cGoodnight, My Someone,\u201d and witty ditties , \u201cPick a Little, Talk a Little\u201d and \u201cYa Got Trouble.\u201d Of course, the big, rousing number is \u201cSeventy-six Trombones\u201d and it’s always a surprise to see how the director features that number in the finale.<\/p>\n

The score is beautifully sung by Elena Shaddow (Marian Paroo), Hunter Foster (Harold Hill), Elizabeth McCarthy (Mrs. Paroo), the quartet, and chorus, and little Winthrop Paroo (Owen Hanford) adds his endearing lispy vocals to \u201cGary, Indiana\u201d and \u201cThe Wells Fargo Wagon.\u201d And River City’s Mayor Shinn (Mark Linn-Baker) is a master at \u201cphraseology\u201d rather than singing.<\/p>\n

Just as music transforms the town of River City into a loving community, \u201cThe Music Man\u201d will envelop The Muny audience and send its patrons home humming. \u201cThe Music Man\u201d is playing at The Muny in Forest Park nightly at 8:15 p.m. July 5-11. For more information, call (314) 361-1900 or go to muny.org\/tickets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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