WASHINGTON – With a ramshackle collection of barely functional instruments, each of the university’s five student theater groups have been tricked to put on the same exact show this Fall, a lively production of the quintessential piece of Americana The Music Man.
“This man just arrived from nowhere,” explained the chair of one group. “He told us we were in trouble! We were going to do Sondheim, but he told us that the type to do Sondheim is the type to play pool, and we wouldn’t be caught dead doing that!”
The individual, travelling under the guise of a visiting professor of music from the sister school George Washington Carver University, located in northwestern Indiana, claimed to be visiting to rectify recent budget deficiencies in the university’s music department.
One by one, he approached heads of each of the theater troupes and convinced them of the dirty, rotten trouble of whatever their planned production would teach the innocent children watching them, and how financing his production of The Music Man would teach all of the youths upstanding and valuable morals to cherish for their lifetime.
The professor, apparently a charming gentleman, also sparked a romance with a woman employed at the university’s Gelman Library. This particular librarian, who wishes to remain unnamed, was notably a shipoopi, according to Buddy Hackett.
It remains unclear to this point whether his love for this librarian truly taught him a valuable lesson or if it is all part of the greater con he planned from the beginning, but by putting on the productions regardless of their slapdash quality the various theater groups are to demonstrate the resilience of the American spirit.
The events as detailed in this article in a strange coincidence seem to mirror the events of the classic Meredith Wilson musical.
All-told, the total is estimated to come to approximately 380 trombones leading the big parade, with 550 cornets close at hand. Over 5,000 reeds are expected to spring up like weeds, along with horns of every shape and size.
The events as detailed in this article in a strange coincidence seem to mirror the events of the classic Meredith Wilson musical.
All-told, the total is estimated to come to approximately 380 trombones leading the big parade, with 550 cornets close at hand. Over 5,000 reeds are expected to spring up like weeds, along with horns of every shape and size.
