PRHS Pirate Rep Presents 'The Music Man' 4/18 - 4/20
Pearl River High School's Pirate Rep presents 'The Music Man' on Friday, April 19th and Saturday, April 20th at 7:00 PM in the high school's auditorium. There will also be a children’s matinee performance on April 20th at 2:00 PM. A special senior citizen performance will be held on Thursday, April 18th at 3:30 PM. Tickets available online at https://www.showtix4u.com/events/PRHS. Read below for highlights about the show!
Smooth-talking con man Professor Harold Hill (senior Shane Mulvey) has developed a reputation among traveling salesmen, especially Charlie Cowell (freshman JP McVeigh), and none of it good. Harold sells band instruments and uniforms with a promise to form a local student band, but once he’s paid, he skedaddles away. In River City, Iowa, to focus attention on the need for a boys' band, Harold attacks the town's new pool hall as a sign of depravity but the pool hall is owned by Mayor Shinn (junior Frankie Amadio III) who orders a check of Harold's credentials. Old friend and former con man Marcellus Washburn (freshman Daniel Burns) also warns Harold about Marian Paroo (senior Nora Arnold), the town librarian and music teacher. Marian is skeptical of Harold but withholds her suspicions when she discovers Harold is helping her brother Winthrop (4th grader Thomas Dunnigan) to cure his lisp. As Harold develops feelings for Marian and Winthrop and the town in general, he faces a difficult decision about skipping town.