THE MUSIC MAN In Concert at University Theater

From the same Yale Musical Theater of the Air team who brought Kiss Me, Kate and My Fair Lady to Yale Alumni, The Music Man In Concert is coming to the Yale University Theater this January 23 and 24.  Combining forces will be Broadway professional alumni singers, actors, instrumentalists, directors, conductors, and designers alongside Yale students, faculty, and staff. 

Broadway's David Loud '83 will lead a 37-piece orchestra of Yalies past and present. Playing the consummate musical con man Harold Hill is Tony nominee Reg Rogers YSD '93, who loses his heart to the local librarian Marian Paroo, sung by Amy Justman '00. With comic turns by Mark Linn-Baker '76, YSD '79 as the rhetorically-challenged Mayor Shinn, and Stephen DeRosa YSD '95 as Harold's sidekick Marcellus, the cast also includes Yale faculty Anne Tofflemire, Joy Hermalyn, and Evan Yionoulis '82, YSD '85; a quartet of singing group alumni harmonizing as the Barbershop Quartet (Sincere, Lida Rose, It's You); and an ensemble of students and recent alumni of the Shen Curriculum for Musical Theater fill out the cast--all volunteering their time and talent.  Yale College and Drama School alumna Anita Stewart '83, '88 YSD is directing the production, which is produced by Amber Edwards '82, the founding Artistic Director of YMTA who produced the previous YMTA smash hits Kiss Me, Kate In Concert and My Fair Lady In Concert.