Life In Quiet River City Highlights 'Music Man'
Julee Cruise takes advantage of a quiet moment in her role as Eulalie MacKecknie Shinn, the mayor's gossipy wife.
"Music Man" was selected as this year's musical. The Merideth Wilson plays centers on the life in a small Iowa town, River City. River City is a quiet village until one Professor Hill arrives and disrupts the normal life and activities of the town.
Comic relief was provided by Kathy Mercer, Greg Boden, Meri Beth Herzberg, Dennis Prescott, Julee Cruise, Rich Roe, Kim Johnson, Deanna Freemeyer, and Dave Stoker as the members of the barbershop quartet and the Pick-a-little-talk-a-little ladies.
Profesor Hill, a charlatan, hoodwinks the people into believing that they need a boys' band. The town then thrives on the vision of this new band.
Neither the mayor nor the school board of River City trust this Hill, thus setting up one of the major conflicts in the play.
If this were the only conflict, Professor Hill might be home free, but these is Marian, the librarian. He chases her, she ignores him; she chases him, he likes it.
In the end, the audience learns that real talent sometimes exists only in the mind. Professor Hill and Marian unite; River City returns to its placid and tranquil ways.
Leads were held by seniors Julie Fehrle, Steve Tackett, Julee Cruise, Peter Eklund, and Dave Smith. Mike Johnson, sixth grader from Cromwell, played the part of Winthrop Paroo. Source: Crest 1975 - Creston High School Yearbook