The Music Man

I mean, absolutely.

It makes me think of, um, The Music Man, which toured here recently, and when we did a podcast about it, I said, "You know, Harold Hill should be very unlikable," but he, he has developed such a, like, a charm to him that, like, it, it does...

Like, the arrogance and the, the cockiness doesn't always seem so, um...

And I guess it, it's more, um, accepted by, uh, audiences because-

May, [laughs] that's 2028.

M- for May 2027, on May 29th and 30th, we're performing a grand, huge production of The Music Man.

Am I looking at the Music Man right here?

I don't know.

Is, oh, no.

I already stole Colin, uh, to be the lead in Iolanthe, which is a wonderful Gilbert and Sullivan that CCG&S is producing June 12th and 13th of 2027 at Cuesta College.

Hmm.

So come see The Music Man, and then take a, go on a vacation for two weeks, and come back and see Iolanthe.

What?

I, she played opposite me in The Music Man, and we had this song together, The Shipoopi.

[laughs]

And, um, when that story broke, you know, with the Clinton thing-

Here's your question: The Monorail song is based on You Got Trouble from what 1958 musical, which also concerns a fast-talking salesman coming to a small town?

Mono, d'oh! That'd be, uh, The Music Man.

The Music Man.

Run.

What'd he talk? What'd he talk?

I really do like the classics.

They did The Music Man 20 years after they did it the first time, and I, we gotta be close on Guys and Dolls, right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

But yeah, before we do, I guess a quick little catch up on us.

Yeah, I'm currently in Houston, Texas for the Music Man Tour.

Been here for two weeks now.

We leave tomorrow.

I've had a rough week.

So I just feel like I'm excited for some, I'm excited for some, some travels.

I've got little quick trips coming up, but that will be fun to see the music man.

What's is any like drama happening with the cast though? that you can share

And, you know, I was just, he was just, he's just an incredibly talented and sweet guy.

I also spoke with Caverly himself via interpreter when he starred in a special deaf and hard of hearing production of The Music Man at Olney Theatre Center in Olney, Maryland in 2022.

Hi, I'm Joey Caverly and I play Harold Hill.

And the voice that you're hearing is Katrina, the interpreter who's sitting with me off camera.

Thank you both for joining us.

We're talking about The Music Man at Alney Theater Center.

So you obviously play the lead role of Harold Hill.

Had you seen a stage version or the movie before this role? Like, were you always a big fan of The Music Man?

And then because we were 14 and he was moving on to high school and I was staying in the junior high school, we broke up.

But several years later, we were at the same high school and we were both auditioning for the high school musical, which was The Music Man.

And my husband, David, was up for the part.

He was not my husband at the time, obviously.

He was this boy that I had chased in junior high school.

And he was up for the part of The Music Man.

And I was auditioning for Marion the Librarian, which is the love interest, if you don't know that musical.

We got the parts.

Not as Elvis, but in his own voice.

Then he recites Cash for the Merchandise, an intricate spoken word number from the beginning of the Broadway classic The Music Man.

It's a surprising and hypnotic performance.

Around that time, though, Andy's friends and family start to notice that he has a cough.