Edwardsburg presenting ‘The Music Man’ this weekend

Published 11:38 am Thursday, March 13, 2014

More than 30 students from Edwardsburg High School and Middle School will be presenting “The Music Man” this weekend at the performing arts center. Shows are at 7:30 p.m. Friday and at 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $7 for adults, $5 for students and seniors or $25 for a family of five. The play is being directed by first-year choir teacher Kyle Rehnlund. (Leader photos/SCOTT NOVAK)

More than 30 students from Edwardsburg High School and Middle School will be presenting “The Music Man” this weekend at the performing arts center. Shows are at 7:30 p.m. Friday and at 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $7 for adults, $5 for students and seniors or $25 for a family of five. The play is being directed by first-year choir teacher Kyle Rehnlund. (Leader photos/SCOTT NOVAK)

A cast of more than 30 students from Edwardsburg High School and Middle School will perform Meredith Willson’s “The Music Man.”

Performances are at 7:30 p.m. Friday, and at 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday. Cost is $7 for adults, $5 for students and seniors or $25 for a family of five.

The show stars junior Carson Collins at Prof. Harold Hill and senior Amanda Pilarski as librarian Marian Paroo.

It is being directed by Kyle Rehnlund, who is in his first year as choir teacher at Edwardsburg.

“The Music Man” is set in 1912 in Iowa. Con man Prof. Harold Hill tries to get the town of River City to purchase band instruments to start a band.

Unfortunately for Hill, he falls in love with librarian Marian Paroo. Despite getting caught, he manages to get away with it and the band arrives in the nick of time to keep Hill from being ridden out of town on a rail.

“The Music Man” contains some of the most famous songs in theater and will surely have the audience singing along.

Among them are “Goodnight, My Someone,” “Pickalittle,” “Marian The Librarian,” “Gary, Indiana,” “Till There Was You” and, of course, “Seventy-six Trombones.”

“It is the most produced musical of all time by high schools,” Rehnlund said. “It’s a huge show to do. I think it represents Edwardsburg very well. It’s a very famous show. Everyone knows ‘The Music Man’ and a lot of famous songs.”

Tickets for the show can be purchased at the door.