[Artistic_heart]

if you were in music man explain your

charater and

why you liked it

i can't wait to see what parts you guys had!


(p.s: i'm sorry if this was in another topic in the music man forum, but even so i would like to read what parts you guys got)

[CYTluver]

i was Eulalie this kind of wacky comedic charater

well i loved my part cause i mess up badly but get laughs

see i'm a very umm blonde person so i triped on my greetion herb robe and fell on harold which made him fall into the refreshment table back stage and he came back and totally wet for me, the audience thought it was part of the show though! i feel bad that i got him wet but we laugh about it now and then.

[Brad Walker]

I was Harold Hill and I absolutely loved the role. All the scenes from Till There Was You and on were great because Harold wasn't selling anybody anything. Such a fun character with so much you can work with.

Oh, and speaking of falls, on our opening night when Marian was leaving the footbridge she fell on part of the fake ground we had connecting the bridge to the set and took a nasty spill. She was almost offstage so I was trying to decide if I should run off the bridge to go help her or not, but she bolted off stage before I could do anything. I justified my lack of chivalry by thinking "Well, she's a strong woman - that's why I love her."

[Brock07]

I played Mayor Shinn. I absolutly loved the part. I had just finished playing Otto Frank in Diary of Anne Frank and it was a great change of pace. He was just so funny...it was also fun to yell at Harold, which was a great way to take out my agression on him. He goofed around alot and it got very frustrating. So yelling helped quite a bit.

[musical_maven]

I was a River City Teen Dancer.

I loved my part because I learned SO MUCH from everyone in the show!
It was great!

[Marcellus]

somebody named Washburn.

[dustygun]

I am one of two Tommys. For some odd reason the people who run the show thought that Tommy needed an understudy to do the two matinee shows. Of course, I guess I should be happy since I'm the understudy, but the whole arrangment made rehersals very complecated.

[ActingDude17]

I was a River City Kid...good times, good times. It was actually my second show.

Since I was only 7 I can't remember it very well...I remember the director had me and this other 7 year old girl (we were the cast babies) walk across the footbridge with me escorting her. Funny thing is, I had a bit of a crush on her at the time.

I really enjoyed it.

[Frump Forever]

I just finished playing Marcellus and had an absolute blast--the Harold and I had a good rapport, and Ethel is a good friend of mine.....seein' how that's pretty much ALL Marcellus interacts with, it was good times, good times!

[Theaterfan101]

River city kid/ Gracie

I loved being Gracie because every one was so jelous that I got to speak on stage. Like I had four classmates in the cast and they didn't have anything special.

then some years later when I was just a river city kid it was fun because we were so ontop of what we needed to do that the director added us kids into the Trouble scene and some of us (me) had an extra scene before Iwoa Stubbor. +My bff played Winthrop and his Dad played the Mayor so we were allowed to sneak aroudn backstage while the rest of the kids were under direct supervision.

[BroadwayBaby0202]

I played Zaneeta and Gracie (they combined them. Weird? probably.) The overall show is fun to be in but it wasn't really the best role(s) for me.

[Theaterfan101]

[Jekkienumber24601]

I played Marcellus. Shipoopi was a major third higher than usual. it was murder on the vocal chords.

[BroadwayBaby0202]

[Theaterfan101]

[PappyCat]

I was a year out of High school when we did it, so I got to be publicist. (We have alumni at the local community college do some odd jobs) but I would have loved Eulalie.

[Drenrim]

We did Music Man Jr. But the amount of stuff and extra content we put into the show it was like the full version. I was Harold and it was cool bc Marcellus was my real life best friend and Marian was this girl I had a crush on.

[DontDoSadnessxx]

the first time I played Maude Donlop (pick a little lady)

Second time I played Mrs. Paroo
I had an awesome irish accent =]

[Pannic]

Well, we're just starting rehearsals, and I'm playing Mayor Shinn.

[MunkuSwarley]

I was Tommy Djilas a few years ago. It was alot of fun.

[Brigantine]

I played Marian!!
It was in a large community theater, and honestly the best experience I've ever had in a show. It was a dream role. My Harold was wonderful (even if he was old enough to be my dad!) and we had a lot of time to get to know each other. The director was just ... awesome. The most organized, well thought out rehearsals I've ever done. We didn't have a formal photo call, but we did get a few shots from dress rehearsals. Here is one of Harold and Marian (me) at the end of Act 1 (cue orchestra swell)

[jax1491]

I was Zaneeta. On one hand I couldn't stand my character. But it was kind of fun to be so bubbly. It took me weeks to perfect my "Ye Gods!" though. And the guy who was supposed to be Tommy dropped out of them play and I didn't get to read with the new one until like a week before the play. It was okay though because I knew him. He works well at the spur of the moment.

[AnnieER25]

My character is made up. Her name is Sophia Blanche. The director ran out of characters and wanted to cast me and one of my friends as pick-a-little-ladies so she took the names of the Golden Girls to make our names. My friend is Dorothea Rose. She's also dividing up the lines differently so that we all have some, which makes me feel kind of badly for the other ladies that are losing lines. (I'm not a big fan of this, but it's not up to me.) I must say I am so glad that I didn't get Marian because the pick-a-little-ladies are a lot of fun and I'd be missing out on so much by not being a part of that group. I'm so thankful that I wasn't deemed too young to be one of them! Between this role and my last, I'm finding that I have an inner comedien.

[vballchick09]

I hd the part of Gracie Shinn. At first, I was disappointed, because I wanted a bigger part like Amaryllis, but I did not relize that Gracie (at least in my production) was a mch bigger part than Amaryllis. During 'Iowa Stubborn' the Shinn family goes into the pool parlor with the men delivering their new pool table. In the 76 Trombones scene, when Tommy Djilas sets off a firecracker that hits Eulalie, Gracie tells everyone that Tommy did it. I also got to do a solo dance with my sister, Zaneeta, during 76 Trombones when the boys band marches around. Gracie also tells her father about Zaneeta secretly dating Tommy. She also tells the townspeople that the Wells Fargo Wagon is coming.
There is much more that I could tell you about

[LameUsername]

I played Constable Locke.

A minuscule part, but you get one of the bigger laughs in the show.

[mcfly2015]

I am a River City singer/dancer (teen). I am in about half of the group numbers and I dance in 76 Trombones, Marian, and Shipoopi. Shipoopi is grueling, but it is going to look amazing on-stage.

[musical_maven]

I was a River City Teen Dancer!

[oxSourPatchRooxo]

Hi, I was Mrs Paroo, and what I liked about it were the costumes,and the fact that i still got to sing. I hate how singular the show is, it's like Harold and marion... and then everyone else. But they gave me My White Knight (As a sort of duet with me and marion)and I was happy

[thegirlfromack]

I was a Pick-a-little-lady... Old. By I was "dating" the hotest guy in the Barbershop Quortett and got to dance with him in Shipoopi. So much fun.

[Dancediva19]

I was Maud Dunlop (Pickalittle Lady) and I LOVED it! The other Pickalittles (Ethel, Alma, and Mrs. Squires) and I were instantly best friends right from the first rehearsal. We even had a Pickalittle Party and stayed up way too late watching Sweeny Tood (probably not the best idea since we had rehearsal the next day).

I also loved not being just another townslady (as I was originally cast). I got to be in front, had quite a few lines, and got the good dressing room (though some of the townsladies were "frequent visitors" to the already cramped Pickalittle dressing room).

Oh, and I had the two cutest little girls in the whole cast as my daughters.

I could go on and on and on about why Music Man was such a great experience for me, but I won't bore everyone any longer.

[jarrod001]

Winthrop!

[What Is This Feeling?]

I was Winthrop. I had a lisp. I got to work with college aged kids. Everyone in their right mind thought my voice was awesome. Plus, I got all this cute attention. The most press I've ever gotten for a role , was when I was playing Winthrop. Newspaper articles, brochures, and local travel magazines even.
Ahhh. Good times. This sounds really horribly misguided, but it was a fun time. It was 5 and a half years ago. And I was 11. However, it is a splendid show and it was worth every second. I met a lot of great people.

[Disney-Bway27]

The Music Man was my first play, actually. It turned me on to musical theatre when I was in the 4th grade (about five years ago).
I landed the part of Winthrop in a middle school production of the show (which was HUGE for me at the time, because I was still in elementary school) and I loved every second of it. I can't really remember much about the rehearsals, but I did pretty well for an unexperienced actor for six performances.
Following that, of course, were mediocre plays, including a Broadway revue (in which I sang "America" from West Side Story), 101 Dalmatians (Jasper), and School House Rock! Live (Ensemble). Now that I've entered high school, I'm hoping to be in shows that are actually good.

[iGotRhythm]

i'm replying to this a little bit late.... the last post was a month ago... But I was a townsperson (aka chorus member, ensemble, etc.) It would've been alot more fun if there were less people onstage, there was hardly any room to move. And I'm going to sound rude, but I was almost always in the back and no one could find me. Lol.

^This was in middle school, so to be nice, the directors let anyone who auditoned be cast in the show. So even if you were tone-deaf or just wanted to hang out with friends and be rude, you were cast (in the chorus, though. But I swear on my life I'm not tone deaf, I was just a nobody to the directors is all.) Only the good people were leads. So there was like close to 200 people onstage sometimes.

I gotta say, it was pretty lame, even though I absolutley adore The Music Man. Great story, great characters, great music. I would love to be in it again, but only if I was a different character. I'd kill to be Marian, though.

[Disney-Bway27]

[TheMusicMan13]

I'm, at the moment, Harold Hill in a school performance! This is my very first play and i got the lead im sooooooooooo happy!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ever since i got the part ive been obsessed with the play and the movie.

Anyway, I like it all its so fun to do. And im very nervous, cause the play is next friday and saturday. But we get out of school early so i cant complain!

[*paradox in pink*]

[violetdancer92]

i played zaneeta, a really giddy character and is in love with tommy. i think it was on of my best roles and exscially since my tommy was cute . it was also fun because the directors added a little love scene of us on the footbridge and he sang to me Goodnight My Someone. then the next year (this year) i was a wickersham brother and he was jojo in seussical

[musical_freak_7]

I was Mrs. Paroo! Mouahahahahaha!!! The little boy who played Winthrop will never forget that I was his mother for a few months, let me tell you! I still try to dicipline that kid. He's so annoying, and it doesn't work. One of my closest friends was Marian and she absolutely HATED the kid playing Harold. quick fun fact: over the summer she'd been in Robin Hood with him. She was Marian in that too. He was Robin.

I loved my character because she's so funny. She's a lot looser than her daughter and quite funny. Not to mention, she's so different from me! She scoffs at Balzac and Shakespeare and think's they're greek!!!!! HA!

Our Eaulalie should've gotten an award for being so awesome!!!!!!

[beccaxoxo]

I was Jacey Squires and dance captain. I got my hair shoved down my shirt and an eyeliner mustache in attempt to conceal me being a female. That didn’t work along with my high pitched voice and quite developed body. The horrors of being in a middle school musical.

[i-train123]

my school is going to be doing the music man. i really want the lead role.

[V0CA1]

I got to play the most amazing leading man Harold Hill!!! It was soo cool. The only thing that I couldn't do was memorize the stupid You Got Trouble the words were always sooo fast!!! Til There Was You was a little dumb for us cause there was an akward walk around. Middle School humfh!

[Matthunter05]

I was Salesman #2, and a Featured Dancer, which means I was in:

Rock Island
Iowa Stubborn
Ya Got Trouble
76 Trombones
Marian The Librarian
The Wells Fargo Wagon
Shipoopi
and the Finale (as part of the Boys Band)

It was a wonderful experience that I would do again in a heartbeat!

[WontYouCharlestonWithMe]

The first time I did this show I was a teen dancer. I was Zaneeta's best friend who pretty much stuck to her side like glue.
The second time I did The Music Man I was Marian Paroo. It was alot of fun and a challenge as I'm more of a mezzo soprano/alto. I had so much fun and the director put in alot of dancing and lifts for Harold and I since we were both dancers.

[idTAPthat89]

Maude Dunlop (Pick-A-Little)

[Emmyv05]

I was just Alma Hix, which was one of the most entertaining roles to play ever! I thought it was a great role because I got to be a complete drama queen and gossip and be dramatic.

[Emmyv05]

[stumpy457]

I played Mayor Shinn in March of this year at my old high school, North Raleigh Christian Academy.

Here I am arguing with that wild kid.


Here's our train car! *I wasn't in this scene...but our set was cool.*


This is me and our Mrs. Paroo...I called this outfit her 'Mary Poppins Outfit.' So this is when the Monopoly Man met Mary Poppins.

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[hamham]

I was Harold. Most amazing role. Most fun ever. End of story.

[MusicAndChocolate]

The first time, I was a pick-a-little lady. Now, I am playing Marian.