Here’s Love to The Music Man: A Celebration of Songwriter Meredith Willson
September 1, 2024
This performance will also be livestreamed. For tickets and more information, click here.
Musical fireworks will ignite sparks on stage this autumn, when 54 Below presents Here’s Love to The Music Man: A Celebration of Songwriter Meredith Willson. This intimate autobiographical revue takes you on a journey from the Midwestern icon’s humble beginnings as a piccolo virtuoso for John Phillip Sousa to becoming one of the most popular and acclaimed radio and TV personalities of the 20th century and recipient of The Presidential Medal of Freedom, two Academy Award nominations, the first ever Grammy award for an original cast recording, and a Tony Award® for his greatest success, The Music Man.
We may not have “Seventy-Six Trombones,” but we have a sensational cast of Broadway favorites from past and present, singing your favorite showstoppers from that quintessential American musical, as well as The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Here’s Love (Miracle on 34th Street), 1491, and his Billboard chart-topping hits that have become standards, including “You and I,” “I See the Moon,” “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas,” “May The Good Lord Bless and Keep You,” “Ya Got Trouble,” and “Till There Was You,” the only Broadway show tune ever recorded by The Beatles! Produced, conceived, directed, & hosted by Tony Award® nominee Walter Willison, with music direction by Michael Lavine. Don’t miss this joyous evening of standards, showtunes, and unexpected surprises.
Featuring:
Loni Ackerman (Cats, Evita, Starting Here, Starting Now)
Cheryl Ann Allen (“Apple Pie Dreams”)
Nikita Burshteyn (Romeo & Bernadette)
Melinda Hopkins (Two by Two national tour)
Jay Aubrey Jones (Cats, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying)
Marcy DeGonge Manfredi (Cats, The Phantom of the Opera)
Jill Paice (An American in Paris, Matilda, Curtains)
Cynthia Thomas (Ain’t Misbehavin’)
Tony Award® nominee Walter Willison (Grand Hotel, Two By Two, Pippin)
Sheila Wormer (Better Dead Than Red, Every Vote Counts)
plus a special video appearance by Nick Whitehurst (Executive Director of “Music Man Square”)
and more stars to be announced!
Please note that all artists and acts are subject to change at any time.
