Music Man 21-Debut Salute

Tomorrow night, the long-awaited revival of The Music Man, starring Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster, will open at Broadway’s Winter Garden Theatre. Yesterday, their costar Jefferson Mays, who plays the fictional River City’s Mayor Shinn, spoke from a lectern on the sidewalk across from the show’s marquee to honor the 21 performers making their Broadway debuts in the production: Nick Alvino, Jordan Beall, Ronnie Bowman Jr., Audrey Cardwell, JT Church, William Colin, Gino Cosculluela, Emma Crow, Kammie Crum, Aydin Eyikan, Carlee Flanagan, Ethan Green-Younger, Emily Hoder, Ethan Lafazan, Kayla LaVine, Drew Minard, Benjamin Pajak, Tanner Quirk, Daniel Patrick Russell, Kayla Teruel, and Mitchell Tobin. The honorees were also serenaded by the show’s barbershop quartet (Broadway veterans Phillip Boykin, Eddie Korbich, Daniel Torres, and Nicholas Ward) with the second-act opener, “It’s You.”