Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alums are in the cast and creative team of The Music Man in Concert, a concert performance of the classic Meredith Willson musical, running February 2 through 11 at Metropolis Performing Arts Centre in the Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights. For tickets, click here.

The show, famous for its hit song “76 Trombones,” stars Columbia College alum Barry Irving ’19, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, as fast-talking traveling salesman “Professor” Harold Hill, who cons the citizens of River City, Iowa, into buying instruments and uniforms for a children’s marching band that he vows to organize – despite the fact that he does not know a trombone from a treble clef. His plans to skip towns with the cash are foiled when he falls for Marian, the town librarian, who transforms him into a respectable citizen by curtain’s fall.

Aaron Reese Boseman

Columbia College alum and faculty member Aaron Reese Boseman ‘12, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Theatre Directing program, is the show’s director.