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The touring company of "The Music Man"
visits Detroit's Fox Theatre.

BILL CARROLL
Special to the Jewish News

11111 eredith Willson, the
Iowan who once
played the flute in
John Phillip Sousa's
band, will always be remembered as
the creator of one of America's most
beloved musicals —
The Music Man. He
wrote the music, lyrics
and book for the show
that won eight Tony
Awards in 1957 —
even beating out West
Side Story as the top
musical.
But the idea for the
show was originally
suggested by Jewish
composer Frank
Loesser, who was fasci-
nated by Willson's tales
of growing up in a
small Iowa town. "I
think you ought to
write a musical comedy
about Iowa," said
Loesser, who had just
created Guys and Dolls
and was writing The
Most Happy Fella.
It took Willson six
years to perfect The
Music Man, going
through more than 30
revisions of songs and
script. Loesser kept encouraging him
and pushing the project, supposedly
even writing "My White Knight," a
beautiful ballad in The Music Man
seemingly derived from Happy Fella
leftovers.
The Music Man marches into
Detroit for eight performances April
16 21 at the Fox Theatre; it is the
show's first visit to the city in 25
years. Slick and tall Gerritt
Vandermeer, a Purdue University
graduate who has performed in ven-
ues throughout the world, plays
smooth-talking con man "Professor"
Harold. Hill. In order to sell band
instruments, he convinces the citi-
zens of River City, Iowa, he can
teach their children to play in a
marching band.
But Hill, a role made famous by

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actor Robert Preston, doesn't count on
falling in love with the town librarian,
Marian Paroo, played by Carolann
Sanita, a native New Yorker and for-
mer opera singer. She learns his secret
and the plot thickens.
The production features the dance
steps of five-time Tony Award-win-
ning choreographer Susan Stroman

and is directed
Gerritt Vandermeer
by Ray
plays smooth-talking
Roderick,
con man "Professor"
both of whom
Harold Hill in
assisted in the
"The Music Man."
recent revival
of The Music
Man that closed on Broadway at the
end of last year.
But the show coming to the Fox
has other performers and is a differ-
ent production, according to P.D.
Seltzer, a Jewish native of Rhode
Island who is the production compa-
ny manager overseeing a 150-city
tour over three years. (The show will
play some three-night stands in sev-
eral small towns.)
Seltzer, 46 and single, started his
career as a performer at Boston
University, but has been in adminis-