Details

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.

Cast/Performers

Brian Conley (Professor Harold Hill), Scarlett Strallen (Marian Parool), Rolf Saxon (Mayor Shinn), Sophie Louise Dann (Alma), Gary Milner (Charlie), Jenny Galloway, Eulalie Shinn, Marc Antolin, Kenneth Avery-Clark, Nicola Blackman, Eddie Elliot, Steve Fortune, Matthew Gould, Clare Halse, Andy Hockley, Amanda Minihan, Kristopher Mitchell, Alice Mogg, Sherrie Pennington, Carl Sanderson, Katy Secombe, Zizi Strallen, Giles Taylor, Barnaby Thompson

Creatives/Company

Author: Meredith Wilson
Corporate Sponsor(s): Henry Adams, Harwoods
Producer: Chichester Festival Theatre
Director: Rachel Kavanaugh
Design: Robert Jones
Choreographer: Stephen Mear
Lighting: Howard Harrison
Sound: Matt McKenzie
Music: Steven Edis (orchestrator and musical supervisor)
Musical Director: Stephen Ridley