King’s Players present ‘Music Man’

Published 10:06 am Monday, March 3, 2008

The King’s Players celebrate their 26th season with a new production of “The Music Man,” one of Broadway’s most enduring musicals.

Meredith Willson’s all-American story of a smooth con man who tricks an Iowa town into forming a boys’ marching band opens Saturday night for the first of five performances at the Shorecrest Performing Arts Center.

The community-based theater company has assembled a cast of 50 and a full orchestra to give Professor Harold Hill and the people of River City, Iowa, their full due in this Tony Award-winning musical.

The score includes such classics as “76 Trombones,” “Trouble” and “Till There Was You.”