I probably saw this production about 25 times during its run. Most memorably, I saw it in the night Broadway re-opened after 9/11; there were maybe 200 people in the audience but you'd have thought the theater was full by the applause from the crowd after every act. When the flag unfurled at the end, there wasn't a dry eye in the house. Truly a special evening in the theater.
THANK YOU for making this available. I had the privilege of seeing this "greatest curtain call in bdway history". A friend just turned 76 and I thought of this curtain call. So thankful to you for sharing. I was surprised to find it on You Tube. To Broadway's return hopefully not too far off!
Thanks for telling me about that I have to go to the store for a bit and then go to the card store and see if I really want me to get the money for the money for the money for the money for the card and the money for me and I can go to work tomorrow if that's Robbie Hagberg
Purchased a ticket for next year's revival with Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster this morning, and will be seeing it on Friday, October 23rd 2020. I've been checking out clips of the last revival, and glad I found this video. Wish I could have seen this production, but I know for a fact that the new production will be wonderful as well. Hopefully as wonderful as this looks.
Hope you also found this from the same revival: th-cam.com/video/bAql9BCIWqg/w-d-xo.html. It will be just over 20 years when the new production arrives, and I hope we all live long enough to see it and, at some point in the future, receive instructions on where to find it.
I have been looking for a video of this curtain call for so long! Such a wonderful, magical musical theatre moment concocted by Susan Stroman! It was truly brilliant of her to drive home the shows themes of music being all around and its transformative power by having the cast literally transform into an actual marching band, playing their own instruments. The fact that they can't play very well is perfect, just as it is in the climax of the show. It's not that they play well, it's that they PLAY. They, and in turn the surprised and delighted audience, recognize the positive power within the music that is indeed all around us.
This was indeed a spectacular curtain call. Though if I'm honest, I also kind of felt it was the only good thing about this production. That and Rebecca Luker's GLORIOUS singing.
I probably saw this production about 25 times during its run. Most memorably, I saw it in the night Broadway re-opened after 9/11; there were maybe 200 people in the audience but you'd have thought the theater was full by the applause from the crowd after every act. When the flag unfurled at the end, there wasn't a dry eye in the house. Truly a special evening in the theater.
The greatest curtain call in history
Saw this production 3 times in NYC and the audience left on a stratospheric high
Bliss
Agreed. Hoping the curtain call for the upcoming 2020 revival with Hugh Jackman is as amazing as this production
Goosebumps every time
THANK YOU for making this available. I had the privilege of seeing this "greatest curtain call in bdway history". A friend just turned 76 and I thought of this curtain call. So thankful to you for sharing. I was surprised to find it on You Tube. To Broadway's return hopefully not too far off!
Thanks for telling me about that I have to go to the store for a bit and then go to the card store and see if I really want me to get the money for the money for the money for the money for the card and the money for me and I can go to work tomorrow if that's Robbie Hagberg
That was absolutely adorable. I'm smiling so big!!
Good gawd I love Craig Bierko.
RIP Rebecca Luker
Purchased a ticket for next year's revival with Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster this morning, and will be seeing it on Friday, October 23rd 2020. I've been checking out clips of the last revival, and glad I found this video. Wish I could have seen this production, but I know for a fact that the new production will be wonderful as well. Hopefully as wonderful as this looks.
Hope you also found this from the same revival: th-cam.com/video/bAql9BCIWqg/w-d-xo.html. It will be just over 20 years when the new production arrives, and I hope we all live long enough to see it and, at some point in the future, receive instructions on where to find it.
Absolutely delightful, what a way to end a show
I have been looking for a video of this curtain call for so long! Such a wonderful, magical musical theatre moment concocted by Susan Stroman! It was truly brilliant of her to drive home the shows themes of music being all around and its transformative power by having the cast literally transform into an actual marching band, playing their own instruments. The fact that they can't play very well is perfect, just as it is in the climax of the show. It's not that they play well, it's that they PLAY. They, and in turn the surprised and delighted audience, recognize the positive power within the music that is indeed all around us.
Thanks for that very perceptive comment.
Thanks for posting!
Fantastic cast!!!
Thank you---glad you liked them.
difficult to look at the current july 4th 2017 and the world at large....thank you for posting this musical theatre to lift our spirits!
Such a nice comment, thanks.
Ladies and gentlemen, THIS IS WHAT A DIVERSE CAST LOOKS LIKE.
If Susan Stroman can get it done, so can you, Jerry Zaks.
Musicians:
Snare drum: Clyde Alves (Tommy Diljas) and Kate Levering (Zaneeta Shinn)
Cornet: Michael Phelan (Winthrop Paroo)
Soprano Sax: Blacke Hammond (Jacey Squires)
Alto Saxophone: Jack Doyle (Ewart Dunlop)
Tenor Saxophone: John Sloman (Oliver Hix)
Baritone Saxophone: Michael-Leon Wooley (Olin Britt)
Glockenspiel: Ruth Williamson (Eualie McKechnie Shinn)
Cymbals: Paul Benedict (Mayor Shinn)
Bass Drum: Max Casella (Marcellus Washburn)
Anvil: Ralph Byers (Charlie Cowell)
Triangle: Katherine McGrath (Mrs. Paroo)
Piccolo: Rebecca Luker (Marian Paroo)
Solo Trombone: Craig Bierko (Harold Hill)
Trombones: EVERYONE ELSE
The "think" system -- think of Declassifying documents!! 🤣
I absolutely thought of Harold Hill's "think system" when DJT stated that he could declassify via thought.
7:13 Wait for it
7:17 *smooch!*
This was indeed a spectacular curtain call. Though if I'm honest, I also kind of felt it was the only good thing about this production. That and Rebecca Luker's GLORIOUS singing.
Do you have any footage or any press/reviewers reel for the 1980 broadway revival of the music man?
They couldn't get the drummer in the pit to teach Tommy and Zaneeta how to play traditional grip with the left hand? Other than that it's great.
This right here is IT. Unbelievable 🥹