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From an exceptionally large audition turnout for SCP’s summer musical THE MUSIC MAN, directors Ron Cassady and Scottie Johnson have selected a cast of 53 to bring the citizens of River City, Iowa to life in this all-American musical.
Heading the cast are Tom Bryson as conman Harold Hill and Sylvia Rivers as Marian, the librarian. Playing Hill’s sidekick is Bruce Maxwell, and Maxwell’s son Dawson plays the lisping Winthrop. Other leading roles include Cheryl Youree as Marian’s mother, L.A. Shinn and Lois Roberds as the mayor and his wife, Derek George and Taylor Garland as love-struck teenagers, and young Madeline Ansley who has a crush on Winthrop. The famous barbershop quartet is played by Darrah Dunn, Paul Jordan, Michael Tocquiney and Jim Smith with Stephen Sloan playing a traveling anvil salesman.
The adult chorus of townspeople includes Amy Shojai, Cythia Evetts, Theresa Littlefield, Charis Berry, Lucinda Grewing, Kathy Matthews, Amanda Armstrong, Susan Snyder, Jan Fletcher, Dorothy Fowler, Bill Steele, Lanny Roberds, Mel Camp Mitchell Reid and Mason Barlow.
Teenagers are Daniel Clark, Alex Leanch, Zeke Dolezalek, Laura Pettit, Alaina Cox, Chelsea Oliver, Hannah Scott and Annabelle Dunn. The younger children of the town are played by Rebecca and Daniel Pressley, Alexandra and Katelyn Mazzant, Joey and Jenna Oliver, Ashton Gregg, Tom Steele, Caleb Butler, Kellen Berry, Marshall Reid, Evie Miller, Berkley Burney and Alex Dunn.
Production personnel, in addition to Cassady and Johnson, include Fred Freeman as rehearsal pianist, Joni Friend as stage manager, Karen Schuth as costumer, Web Crocker as scenic designer and Keith Grewing operating light controls.
Rehearsals are now underway for THE MUSIC MAN which will open June 6 and play through June 29.