Show Times:
Thursday – Saturday June 6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15 – 7:00 P.M.
Sunday Matinee June 9 & 16 – 2:00 P.M.
Tickets available Peter and Annies $14
Opening Night Gala for: The Music Man
Thursday June 6, 6 PM on the Front Lawn of Arts Center
Show starts at 7 PM
Hors doevres, Wine, beer, soft drinks
Summer casual preferred (sundress, polo shirt etc)
ETC presents Meredith Willsons well beloved The Music Man at the Cumberland Arts Center June 6-8 and June 13-15 at 7 PM, with 2 PM matinees on Sundays, June 9 and 16. The show is set just about 100 years ago, July 4, 1912, in fictional River City Iowa. Professor Harold Hill (Layton Nosbush), part con man and part magician, sets out to fleece the town of its money as he organizes a youth band. Throughout the show he stays one step ahead of Mayor Shinn (Ed Hougdahl), the constable (Steve Wickre) and the deputized School Board (Albin Peterson, Jim Kerr, Jeremy Westin and Dave Evenson).
At first Hill is distrusted by piano teacher and librarian, Marian Paroo (Shanna Fraiser), but she is finally won over as her Mother (Carol Hougdahl) and brother Winthrop (Zach de la Cruz) are taken in by his charms. Along the way we get to see the Independence Day preparations and celebration, with performances by the Ladies Auxiliary led by Mayors wife, Eulalie MacKecknie Shinn (Chris Johansen), and other auxiliary members played by Jessica de la Cruz, Sharai Hefty, Charlotte Shanahan, Sheri Johnson, Barb Ankarlo, Jeanne Shanahan. Stan Nosbush, plays Hills co-conspirator Marcellus Washburn. BJ Brenna plays Charlie Cowell- out to get Hill for his giving salesmen a bad reputation.
The townspeople and chorus include Al Bock, Micah Weltzin (as Tommy Djilas), Naomi Rodriguez (as Amaryllis), Rachael Korntved and Emilie Springsteen (as Zaneeta and Gracie Shinn), Ben Ankarlo, Wayne Ankarlo, Mollie Delzer, Kalli Relford, Kaia Johnson, Maya Brenna, Elizabeth Korntved, Indira Rodriguez, Ally de la Cruz, Natasha Rodriguez, and Cassie Callow.
Anne Kysely is directing, with assistance from Dave Evenson, who also is set designer. John Westin is Music Director and Rachael Korntved is choreographer. Diane Thorp and Toni Ritchie are costume designers. Pit band includes Dorene Weltzin, Lisa Barker, Nancy Keeler and Josh Dorn.
All tickets are $14, and are available at Peter and Annies in downtown Cumberland. The Arts Center is at 1595 2nd Ave (Also Highway 63) north of downtown Cumberland
