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With the greatest appreciation & much affection, this page is dedicated to our "Music Men"...
Charles L Broadhurst Jr & Salvatore M DiNello
...whose talents made our dreams a reality & who gave us memories to treasure.
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The Music Man makes it's Broadway debut at the Majestic Theatre on December 19, 1957 & stars Robert Preston as Harold Hill. This is an original Playbill Vol.1, No. 13 for the week of December 23, 1957. *  |
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The Saddle Brook High School Class of 1970's production of The Music Man opens for two nights only on April 10 & 11, 1970 in the high school auditorium & marks the acting debut of Ken Zwoboda as Harold Hill. ~> The Program ** ~> The Ticket *** |
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The revival of The Music Man opens at City Center on June 5, 1980 & stars Dick Van Dyke as Harold Hill. The revival closes after 21 performances |
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The revival of The Music Man opens at the Neil Simon Theatre on April 27, 2000 & marks the Broadway debut of Craig Bierko as Harold Hill. This is an original Playbill Volume 00, Number 5 for Opening Night: April 27, 2000. |
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The 2020 revival of The Music Man starring Hugh Jackman & Sutton Foster was set to begin previews on September 9, 2020 & open at the Winter Garden on October 15, 2020 until the global pandemic struck. The previews actually began on December 20, 2021 & the play opened on February 10, 2022. The revival closed on January 15, 2023 as the producers chose not to recast with Hugh Jackman's pending exit from the show. |
OUR BROADWAY 2000 REVIEW
| Pardon our 'phraseology'...but 'great honk' & 'ye gods'! "The Music Man" was awesome! Would we 'Lida' you? The heck with two thumbs up...we attended the last evening of previews at the Neil Simon Theatre on 4/26/00 (the Broadway Revival officially opened on 4/27/00) & give it '76 Trombones'! Of course we'll be the first to admit that nostalgia made us biased...this being the year of the 30th Reunion of the SBHS Class of '70 & it being our Senior Play & all...but this phenomonal cast had the whole audience on its feet for the entirety of the last two numbers. We were lucky enough to meet up with Craig Bierko (Harold Hill), Rebecca Luker (Marian Paroo), Paul Benedict (Mayor Shinn), Ruth Williamson (Eulalie Mackecknie Shinn) & Clyde Alves (Tommy Djilas) outside of the theatre after the performance & it was neat to hear each of them comment about how much fun they're having doing the show. |
'Sincere'ly,
(: karen & diane :)
2001 Field Trip
| Fourteen of us got together to attend the Saturday afternoon performance of "The Music Man" at The Neil Simon Theatre on 6/2/01. We met at Rivara's Grill House (formerly The Owl & I) in Fair Lawn at noon & departed via bus for the city & the 2:00pm matinee performance. We returned to Rivara's for dinner & some of us hung out at the bar well into the evening. Eric McCormack had replaced Craig Bierko in the lead role as 'Harold Hill' & there were several other cast changes. I think I can speak for all of us when I say that our 6/2/01 Music Man "field trip" was a definite success. We had a great time on the bus, at the show & over dinner.. good company.. good conversation.. a lot of laughs & some great reminiscing.. not much more one could ask for. :) |
The revival closed at the end of 2001. :(
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| The Songs (click title for midi): Overture Rock Island Iowa Stubborn Trouble Piano Lesson & If You Don't Mind Me Saying So Goodnight, My Someone Columbia, The Gem of the Ocean Seventy-Six Trombones Sincere The Sadder-But-Wiser Girl Pick-A-Little, Talk-A-Little & Goodnight Ladies Marian, the Librarian My White Knight The Wells Fargo Wagon It's You Shipoopi Lida Rose & Will I Ever Tell You Gary, Indiana Till There Was You Minuet in G Finale |
Some interesting links:
"The Music Man": Synopsis
The Music Man Square "The Original River City"
Eric Endres' "A Tribute to Meredith Willson's The Music Man"
Barbershop Harmony Society
The Trophy Case
1970
* The 1957 playbill is a treasured gift from the author of
"Susan's Home Page presents:
The Music Man: A dedication to Meredith Willson's The Music Man"
** SBHS Class of '70 "Music Man" program courtesy of
Cindy McBroom Verost '75
*** SBHS Class of '70 "Music Man" ticket courtesy of
Joan Mingle Hemming '70
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