Day 428 and 429: Final Opening

Seventy six trombones are marching into the Shenandoah summer music theater this weekend to present the final show of their season: Meredith Willson's The Music Man. (That sounded like the first sentence of a newspaper article). Anyway, as you just read we have no opened up our final show of the season and while we are all exhausted we are having a blast because the audiences just love this classic, feel-good musical. Yes, it's long, yes the story is simple, it has simple characters, standard tunes, but underneath all of the simplistic charm is a show with great depth about a town that really is in trouble of becoming mundane, eternally stubborn, and in a sense, lifeless. We get to bring the show to life and hopefully we can make the audiences look like the townspeople below in excited anticipation for next year's season and more performances of The Music Man.