"The Music Man" story line:

The setting is a small town in Iowa, around the 4^th of July, 1912.  "Professor" Harold Hill decides to take his chance with the locals.  He goes to River City, to cure the "trouble" with the town's youth (the new pool hall), and he conjures up the need for a boys band, complete with uniforms and songbooks.  It looks like they're all going to fall hook, line and sinker, as the parents readily fork over their cash to him for instruments and uniforms. But the Professor is actually the king of the mid-west scammers as we soon learn from the singing salesmen on the train, and he can't read music or teach the kids to play as he has promised to do.  He plans to skip town by the time the townsfolk wise up to him.   But, before too long, it's the Professor who falls for the lonely, yet lovely librarian & piano teacher, Miss Marian Paroo.   She soon figures out his scam, but becomes enthralled with the vision of musical grandeur that he somehow instills in the youth of the town.  The scam man will never catch that train out of town, and it seems that he'll get “tarred and feathered” by the angry townsfolks, but the kids will come through for him in a way that no one believed possible.

 Well know music numbers include "The Wells Fargo Wagon", "Till There Was You", "Ya Got Trouble . . .(In River City)", "Seventy-Six Trombones" and "Lida Rose" sung by "Chordially Yours", one of the North Shore's best quartets.

During the show:

Taken shortly after the "Wells Fargo Wagon" has arrived.   (Photo courtesy of Spiro Xerras)

Photos after the closing curtain, on the show's final performance (11-20-05):

Members of the barber shop quartet "Chordially Yours"  pose with piano playing Amaryllis, "Madam Librarian", Marian Paroo, and Professor Harold Hill who's still perfecting the "think" system.

Spirits still run high.  Great show guys!  You were the best!!

Some of the younger cast members.   Hope to see you kids again in future productions!!

The North Shore Players would like to give a hardy thank you to all the cast, crew, & general production people who helped contribute to the success of this show.  We also thank the parents of the younger ones, who assisted us in many ways.  Thank you very much!!

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