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Show "Music Man " Expects Sell-out Audience Park High's big musical opens Thursday night, and will play again Friday evening to an anticipated full house. "The Music Man" is set in 1912 in a fictitious town where the people are noted for their snobbishness. Into this community commun-ity comes Professor Harold Hill-not a professor at all, but a con artist-who plays on civic pride to dupe the town into ordering instruments for what he promises will be a sensational band. Beautiful music, he convinces con-vinces them, will be forthcoming once he teaches the band members his unique "think system", whereby a person only has to "think" the music and they will be able to play it. As the plot thickens, a romance with Marian the Librarian thickens thick-ens the professor's plot, thus interfering with his planned disappearance (after the money is collected, and prior to the arrival of the instruments). The leading lady's role is double-cast, to be played on Thursday night by Laurie Chantry, and by Patt Prince on Friday night and at the Wednesday Wednes-day dress rehersal (the latter to be staged especially for fourth through eighth grade students). Professor Hill will be played by Mark Lindsay. Other key roles are those of Mavor and Mrs. Shinngene Pirraglio and (Paula Putman), Mrs. Paroo (Shelly Flinders), and Winthrop Paroo (Trey Eppley). Nearly a hundred people are involved in the production, including the Park High drama class, choir, and band, the advanced band from Marsac, and half a dozen members of the community. The show has been in the works for two months, under the direction of Band Instructor Ken Durant. Students have handled all phases of the production, including staging, scenery, lighting, light-ing, sound system, ticket sales, and media contacts. |