The Music Man on Broadway

Two-time Tony Award®, Grammy Award®, and Emmy Award® winner Hugh Jackman will make his highly anticipated return to Broadway in what is widely agreed to be the greatest role ever created for an actor in the history of musical theater: Professor Harold Hill in Meredith Willson’s beloved classic, The Music Man. Two-time Tony Award-winning musical comedy superstar Sutton Foster will star as Marian Paroo. The production is directed by four-time Tony Award winner Jerry Zaks, with choreography by Tony Award winner Warren Carlyle.

Broadway’s brightest star returns to the stage in a grand revival of one of the finest musicals ever written. Tony, Grammy and Emmy award winner Hugh Jackman stars as Professor Harold Hill, among the most beloved characters in the musical theatre canon, in the Broadway return of Meredith Willson’s The Music Man. Get The Music Man Broadway tickets on TodayTix.

The townspeople of River City, Iowa are thrilled when Harold Hill comes to town looking to form a boys’ band, selling uniforms and instruments and promising to lead the band himself. In fact, Hill is a con man and plans to skip town once he’s made his sale and before teaching a single lesson. But when Harold falls for Marian Paroo, the town librarian, he risks being caught to stay in town and woo her. Marian's own plans to expose Harold get thwarted, too, when she starts to fall for him in return.

The Music Man musical reunites the creative team behind the acclaimed Broadway revival of Hello, Dolly!, including director Jerry Zaks and choreographer Warren Carlyle. The sumptuous revival of The Music Man at the Winter Garden Theatre promises the same mix of huge production numbers, gorgeous dancing and old-fashioned bombast which Hello, Dolly! brought to the Shubert Theatre stage.

Broadway’s most in-demand leading man is joined by its most in-demand leading lady, two-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster, who plays Marian the Librarian. Jackman and Foster promise a match made in musical theatre heaven, which has made The Music Man the hottest ticket in town. Get The Music Man Broadway tickets on TodayTix.

What to Watch For

• Neither Hugh Jackman nor Sutton Foster have appeared on Broadway since 2014, when Jackman led the cast of new play The River and Foster led a revival of the musical Violet.
• The Music Man was first staged on Broadway in 1957. A huge hit, the show won the Tony Award for best musical and ran for 1,375 performances.
• The original Music Man cast album won the Grammy Award for best musical theatre album and spent an unprecedented 245 weeks on the Billboard charts.
• The Music Man was last revived on Broadway in 2000 at the Neil Simon Theatre, in a hit production starring Craig Bierko and Rebecca Luker, directed and choreographed by Susan Stroman.
• The Music Man is inspired by creator Meredith Willson's own childhood in Mason City, Iowa.