The Music Man KIDS
Based on Meredith Willson's six-time-Tony-Award-winning musical comedy, The Music Man KIDS features some of musical theatre’s most iconic songs and a story filled with wit, warmth and good old-fashioned romance. The Music Man KIDS is family entertainment at its best — a bold, brassy show that will have the whole town atwitter!
Master showman Harold Hill is in town and he’s got “seventy-six trombones” in tow. Can upright, uptight Marian, the town librarian, resist his powerful allure? The story follows fast-talking traveling salesman, Harold Hill, as he cons the people of River City, Iowa, into buying instruments and uniforms for a boys' band he vows to organize. The catch? He doesn't know a trombone from a treble clef. His plans to skip town with the cash are foiled when he falls for Marian, whose belief in Harold’s power just might help him succeed in the end in spite of himself.
The Music Man KIDS is the perfect vehicle for your young cast, a toe-tapping crowd-pleaser, featuring a soaring soprano ingénue part and a leading role for a charismatic actor, as well as plenty of roles for kids of every level.
Concert Selections for The Music Man
MTI is pleased to provide the pre-approved rental materials of select songs for your symphonic concert performance. Please note, MTI is unable to grant the necessary Performance Rights with this material rental. The Performance Rights needed must be obtained separately through the individual song’s respective small rights agency such as ASCAP, BMI, or SESAC. Please email concerts@mtishows.com with any questions.
- ENTR'ACTE ("MUSIC MAN")FromFirst Performance Fee:$175Each Additional Performance:$100Music byWILLSON, MEREDITHOrchestrated byshow more...WALKER, DON
- GARY, INDIANAFromFirst Performance Fee:$175Each Additional Performance:$100Music byMeredith WillsonLyrics byMeredith WillsonOrchestrated byshow more...Don Walker
- GOODNIGHT, MY SOMEONEFromFirst Performance Fee:$175Each Additional Performance:$100Music byWILLSON, MEREDITHLyrics byWILLSON, MEREDITHOrchestrated byshow more...WALKER, DON
- IOWA STUBBORNFromFirst Performance Fee:$175Each Additional Performance:$100Music byWILLSON, MEREDITHLyrics byWILLSON, MEREDITHOrchestrated byshow more...WALKER, DON
- LIDA ROSEFromFirst Performance Fee:$175Each Additional Performance:$100Music byWILLSON, MEREDITHLyrics byWILLSON, MEREDITHOrchestrated byshow more...WALKER, DON
- MARIAN THE LIBRARIANFromFirst Performance Fee:$175Each Additional Performance:$100Music byWILLSON, MEREDITHLyrics byWILLSON, MEREDITHOrchestrated byshow more...WALKER, DON
- MUSIC MAN: SYMPHONIC IMPRESSIONSFromFirst Performance Fee:$300Each Additional Performance:$150Music byWILLSON, MEREDITHArranged byshow more...HAYMAN, RICHARD
- MY WHITE KNIGHTFromFirst Performance Fee:$175Each Additional Performance:$100Music byWILLSON, MEREDITHLyrics byWILLSON, MEREDITHOrchestrated byshow more...WALKER, DON
- OVERTURE ("MUSIC MAN")FromFirst Performance Fee:$175Each Additional Performance:$100Music byMEREDITH WILLSONOrchestrated byshow more...DON WALKER
- PICK A LITTLE, TALK A LITTLEFromFirst Performance Fee:$175Each Additional Performance:$100Music byWILLSON, MEREDITHLyrics byWILLSON, MEREDITHOrchestrated byshow more...WALKER, DON
- SELECTIONS FROM "THE MUSIC MAN"FromFirst Performance Fee:$300Each Additional Performance:$150Music byshow more...MEREDITH WILLSON
- SEVENTY SIX TROMBONESFromFirst Performance Fee:$175Each Additional Performance:$100Music byWILLSON, MEREDITHLyrics byWILLSON, MEREDITHOrchestrated byshow more...WALKER, DON
- SHIPOOPIFromFirst Performance Fee:$175Each Additional Performance:$100Music byWILLSON, MEREDITHLyrics byWILLSON, MEREDITHOrchestrated byshow more...WALKER, DON
- THE MUSIC MAN - SUITE FOR ORCHESTRAFromFirst Performance Fee:$300Each Additional Performance:$150Music byWILLSON, MEREDITHArranged byshow more...CABLE, HOWARD
- TILL THERE WAS YOUFromFirst Performance Fee:$175Each Additional Performance:$100Music byWILLSON, MEREDITHLyrics byWILLSON, MEREDITHOrchestrated byshow more...WALKER, DON
- WELLS FARGO WAGONFromFirst Performance Fee:$175Each Additional Performance:$100Music byWILLSON, MEREDITHLyrics byWILLSON, MEREDITHOrchestrated byshow more...WALKER, DON
- YA GOT TROUBLEFromFirst Performance Fee:$175Each Additional Performance:$100Music byMeredith WillsonLyrics byMeredith WillsonOrchestrated byshow more...Don Walker
- YA GOT TROUBLE (REPRISE)FromFirst Performance Fee:$175Each Additional Performance:$100Music byWILLSON, MEREDITHLyrics byWILLSON, MEREDITHOrchestrated byshow more...WALKER, DON
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Questions & Answers
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How is Music Man Jr different for Music Man Kids?
Describe difference of MM Kids and JR
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Lyrics of Shipoopi in Music Man KIDS
Hi Cindy!
We are working on a production of Music Man Kids and we are getting parent push-back from the first few lines of Shipoopi, which we assumed would've been changed in the Kids version of the script.
Specifically:
Well, a woman who'll kiss on the very first date
Is usually a hussy
And a woman who'll kiss on the second time out
Is anything but fussy
Do you have any suggestions? Is there an approved alternate set of lyrics we could use?
Or do you have a better explanation of the lyrics that we could explain to the kids and parent?
Thanks!
John Barthelmes :-)
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Can first graders do MTI kids shows successfully?
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