Courtney Balan & Barrett Foa (Bob Copley Photo / July 8, 2013)
CT Repertory Theatre ends
their summer season with Meredith Willson’s timeless Broadway musical classic The Music Man. This production stars Barrett Foa, who plays Eric Beale in
the hit TV series NCIS: Los Angeles,
as Harold Hill. This classic
patriotic, feel-good, Americana musical comedy is based on the hit Broadway
show and will run for twelve performances at the Harriet S. Jorgensen Theatre at UConn, Storrs, CT, July 11 through July
21. Click here to purchase tickets or
call 860-486-2113.
Connecticut Repertory Theatre is the producing arm of the University of Connecticut’s Department of Dramatic Arts. CRT produces under a year-round contract with Actors’ Equity Association, and serves as a cultural center for Connecticut and the New England region. CRT productions are directed and designed by, and cast with, visiting professionals, equity actors, faculty members and the department’s most advanced students.
Selling more than 19,000 tickets annually, and nearly 3,000 subscriptions, CRT presents a wide range of material including premieres, contemporary plays, classics of the American musical theatre, and great works from the canon of world drama presented with both traditional and experimental points of view. CRT is also the performance outlet for the Department of Dramatic Art’s internationally acclaimed Puppet Arts program, the only degree-conferring puppetry program of its kind in the United States.
Barrett Foa, who has starred in Broadway's Avenue Q, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Mamma Mia! and Godspell will portray fast-talking con man “Professor” Harold Hill who arrives in River City, Iowa in the weeks before the 4th of July, 1912 festivities. Persuading the citizens that the youth of River City is in great danger of being corrupted by the presence of a new pool table, Hill convinces them that their only hope for salvation is the organization of a boy's band, with himself as a leader. Naturally, this will require the parents to shell out good money for band instruments and uniforms, and in exchange, Hill promises to teach the kids how to make music by utilizing his revolutionary "Think System." If you think the tune then you can play it. There's only one problem: Harold Hill doesn’t know one note from another. Even so, he manages to win over everybody in town except local librarian/music teacher Marian Paroo and thick-eared Mayor Shinn. Ultimately, however, Marian joins Hill's camp -- mainly because he has brought her sullen brother, Winthrop out of his shell. But as July Fourth approaches, Hill faces exposure and arrest thanks to a vengeful anvil salesman named Charlie Cowell. The Music Man, during its original Broadway run was the winner of five Tony Awards including Best Musical and a Grammy Award for Best Original Cast Album, happily includes many wonderful songs, among them "Ya Got Trouble," "Seventy-Six Trombones," "The Sadder-But-Wiser Girl," "Lida Rose," "Marian the Librarian," "Pickalittle," "Til There Was You," and "My White Knight."
The Music Man is based on a book, music, and lyrics by Meredith Willson, with the story by Willson and Franklin Lacey. For more about this production read the Hartford Courant article by Frank Rizzo (July 7).
Connecticut Repertory Theatre is the producing arm of the University of Connecticut’s Department of Dramatic Arts. CRT produces under a year-round contract with Actors’ Equity Association, and serves as a cultural center for Connecticut and the New England region. CRT productions are directed and designed by, and cast with, visiting professionals, equity actors, faculty members and the department’s most advanced students.
Selling more than 19,000 tickets annually, and nearly 3,000 subscriptions, CRT presents a wide range of material including premieres, contemporary plays, classics of the American musical theatre, and great works from the canon of world drama presented with both traditional and experimental points of view. CRT is also the performance outlet for the Department of Dramatic Art’s internationally acclaimed Puppet Arts program, the only degree-conferring puppetry program of its kind in the United States.
Barrett Foa, who has starred in Broadway's Avenue Q, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Mamma Mia! and Godspell will portray fast-talking con man “Professor” Harold Hill who arrives in River City, Iowa in the weeks before the 4th of July, 1912 festivities. Persuading the citizens that the youth of River City is in great danger of being corrupted by the presence of a new pool table, Hill convinces them that their only hope for salvation is the organization of a boy's band, with himself as a leader. Naturally, this will require the parents to shell out good money for band instruments and uniforms, and in exchange, Hill promises to teach the kids how to make music by utilizing his revolutionary "Think System." If you think the tune then you can play it. There's only one problem: Harold Hill doesn’t know one note from another. Even so, he manages to win over everybody in town except local librarian/music teacher Marian Paroo and thick-eared Mayor Shinn. Ultimately, however, Marian joins Hill's camp -- mainly because he has brought her sullen brother, Winthrop out of his shell. But as July Fourth approaches, Hill faces exposure and arrest thanks to a vengeful anvil salesman named Charlie Cowell. The Music Man, during its original Broadway run was the winner of five Tony Awards including Best Musical and a Grammy Award for Best Original Cast Album, happily includes many wonderful songs, among them "Ya Got Trouble," "Seventy-Six Trombones," "The Sadder-But-Wiser Girl," "Lida Rose," "Marian the Librarian," "Pickalittle," "Til There Was You," and "My White Knight."
The Music Man is based on a book, music, and lyrics by Meredith Willson, with the story by Willson and Franklin Lacey. For more about this production read the Hartford Courant article by Frank Rizzo (July 7).
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