The Musical stealing hearts since 1957!
Meredith Willson's winning all-American 1957 musical garnered five Tony Awards including Best Musical, and is considered one of the best ever produced in the country. With a charming feel-good score and a loveable rogue to boot, discover how a successful con-man falls in love with a small-town in America's heartland and works to change his ways for the better. Also, who doesn't love a marching band playing live on stage!
It's Edwardian-era around the Fourth of July, and Professor Harold Hill has been conning small towns across America for a number of years, convincing them that their children hold prodigious musical skills; after swindling money in order to "buy" instruments and uniforms for a youth marching band despite not knowing a trombone from a treble clef, his plan to cut and run is drastically cut short when he falls for the virginal young librarian
Right up until he meets the citizens of River City, Iowa that is. A community infamous for their insular and distrustful nature towards strangers, Harold has a challenge on his hands to get them to part with their money. Finally convincing them to let him buy instruments and uniforms for the brass band he vows to organize - this despite the fact he d His plans to skip town with the cash are foiled when he falls for Marian the librarian, who after discovering his dastardly past, works hard to transform him into a respectable man. Will she succeed in changing Harold for the better?