Too bad there isn't a meter to measure civic pride. If there were, Mason City, Iowa " the real River City that bookwriter-composer-lyricist Meredith Willson fictionalized in his Tony-winning 1957-58 musical THE MUSIC MAN " would score high. Now the town with 28,000 people has bought more than 2,000 tickets to two nights of Shirley [...]
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 09:35AM on October 10, 2014