Tag: the music man

February 20, the official opening night of West Side Story, marks the first Broadway musical opening of 2020. Once it does, the shows simply don’t stop. March and April are stuffed with new musicals—eight, to be exact—as shows rush to hit the boards before the April 23 eligibility deadline to be considered for a 2019–20 […]

Is it October 2020 yet? Playbill just announced that next year, a revival of Meredith Willson’s The Music Man will hit the Great White Way, starring everyone’s favorite Hollywood/Broadway song-and-dance man Hugh Jackman as the show’s titular charming con man Harold Hill. Given Jackman’s star turn as razzle-dazzle impresario P.T. Barnum in last year’s The […]