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St. Martin’s Fine Arts Department presented an amazing production of the musical, Meredith Willson’s The Music Man, Jr.  Students in Lower, Middle, and Upper School wowed audiences in three performances from March 22-24, 2024.

Based on Meredith Willson's six-time-Tony-Award-winning musical comedy, The Music Man Jr. features some of musical theatre’s most iconic songs and a story filled with wit, warmth and good old-fashioned romance.  

The cast (in order of appearance): 

Conductor: Gianna Guirguis

Traveling Salesman: Avery Vinju, Taylor Hughes, Bay Bowes, Bianca Norris, Dalton Rivas

Charlie Cowell: Oli Lyons

Harold Hill: Kyle Lawrence

Mayor Shinn: Dylan Engles

Alma Hix: Sophie Chailland

Ethel Toffelmier: Madden Graffagnini

Mrs Squires: Vivienne Comer

Jacey Squires: Andrew Kosarek

Olin Britt: Aidan Molaison

Oliver Hix: Colin Richard

Ewart Dunlap: Bennett Nettles

Marcellus Washburn:  

Marian Paroo: Ella Bozeman

Mrs Paroo: Gloria Ruiz

Amaryllis: Caroline Weaver

Winthrop Paroo: Avery Dupepe

Eulalie Mackecknie Shinn: Emory Farber

Constable Locke: Dalton Rivas

Gracie Shinn: Taylor Hughes

Maud Dunlop: Marigny Molaison

Tommy Djilas: Manny Bejaran

Zaneeta Shinn: MaryAlice Comer

Ensemble: Bay Bowes, Bennett Buckley, Ava Childress, Amirah DiGangi, Emma Dunn, Reid DuSaules, Adriana Fasano, Sami Fasano, Gianna Guirguis, Audrey Hamide, Settie Hughes, Jillian Jee, Taryn Lazarone, Sadie Luby, Bianca Norris, Cecilia Parks, Lydian Richard, Oli Lyons, Dalton Rivas, Arlyn Robinson, Avery Vinju, and Caroline Wise.

Stage Manager: Hailey Silvey

Dance Captain: Laney Dobson

Master showman Harold Hill is in town and he’s got “seventy-six trombones” in tow. Can upright, uptight Marian, the town librarian, resist his powerful allure?  The story follows fast-talking traveling salesman, Harold Hill, as he cons the people of River City, Iowa, into buying instruments and uniforms for a boys' band he vows to organize. The catch? He doesn't know a trombone from a treble clef. His plans to skip town with the cash are foiled when he falls for Marian, whose belief in Harold’s power just might help him succeed in the end in spite of himself.