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History of "The Music Man"

"The Music Man" opened on 12/19/1957
and ran for 1375 shows...

Awards
Winner of 8 Tony Awards including Best Musical,
Author, Composer and Lyricist.
Its cast album won the Grammy Award (the first ever),
while the score for the film won an Academy Award.

Song List

"Rock Island"
"Iowa Stubborn"
"Ya Got Trouble"
"Good Night My Someone"
"Seventy-Six Trombones"
"Sincere"
"The Sadder-But-Wiser Girl"
"Pickalittle/ Good Night, Ladies"
"Marian The Librarian"
"My White Knight"
"Wells Fargo Wagon"
"It's You"
"Shipoopi"
"Lida Rose"
"Will I Ever Tell You"
"Gary, Indiana"
"Till There Was You"

The Broadway Cast
(In order of appearance)

TRAVELLING SALESMEN
Russell Goodwin, Hal Norman, Robert Howard,
James Gannon, Robert Lenn, Vernon Lusby, Robert Evans
CHARLIE COWELL - Paul Reed
CONDUCTOR - Carl Nicholas
HAROLD HILL - Robert Preston
MAYOR SHINN - David Burns

EWART DUNLOP - Al Shea
OLIVER HIX - Wayne Ward
JACEY SQUIRES - Vern Reed
OLIN BRITT - Bill Spangenberg

MARCELLUS WASHBURN - Iggie Wolfington
TOMMY DJILAS - Danny Carroll
MARIAN PAROO - Barbara Cook
MRS. PAROO - Pert Kelton
AMARYLLIS - Marilyn Siegel
WINTHROP PAROO - Eddie Hodges
EULALIE MACKECKNIE SHINN - Helen Raymond
ZANEETA SHINN - Dusty Worrall
GRACIE SHINN - Barbara Travis
ALMA HIX - Adnia Rice
MAUD DUNLOP - Elaine Swann
ETHEL TOFFELMIER - Peggy Mondo
MRS. SQUIRES - Martha Flynn
CONSTABLE LOCKE - Carl Nicholas

RIVER CITY TOWNSPEOPLE AND KIDS

Pamela Abbott, Babs Delmore, Martha Flynn, Janet Hayes,
Peggy Mondo, Barbara Williams, Elaine Swann, Marie Santella,
Marlys Watters, James Gannon, Russell Goodwin, Robert
1-loward, Peter Leeds, Robert Lenn, Hal Norman, Carl Nicholas,
Joan Bowman, Alice Clift, Nancy Davis, Penny Ann Green,
Lynda Lynch, Jacqueline Maria, Marilyn Poudrier, Pat Man-ano,
Elisabeth Buda, Babs Warden, Tom Panko, Ronn Cum-mins,
Robert Evans, Vernon Lusby, Gary Menteer, John Sharpe,
Roy Wilson, Gerald Teijelo, Bob Mariano, Vernon Wendorf.


UNDERSTUDIES

Harold Hill—Larry Douglas; Marian Paroo—Marlys Watters;
Mayor Shinn—Paul Reed; Mrs. Paroo—Adnia Rice; Marcel1us
Washburn—Paul Reed; Charlie Cowell—Hal Norman; Tommy
Djilas—John Sharpe; Zaneeta Shinn—Lynda Lynch; Ewart
Dunlop—Robert Lenn; Oliver Hix—Russell Goodwin; Jacey
Squires—Art Rubin; Olin Britt—Robert Howard; Winthrop
Paroo—Bob Mariano; Eulalie Mackecknie Shinn—Adnia Rice;
Alma Hix, Maud Dunlop, Ethel Toffelmier—Martha Flynn;
Gracie Shinn—Pat Mariano; Amaryllis—Barbara Travis.

Choreography by Onna White
Settings and Lighting by Howard Bay
Costumes by Raoul Pene Du Bois
Musical Direction and Vocal Arrangements by Herbert Greene
Orchestration by Don Walker and Sidney Fine
Dance Arrangements by Laurence Rosenthal

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