Star of The Music Man Honoured as Best Male Performer of the Year
Published: Thursday 12 October, 2023
Congratulations to our leading man, Nic Kyle, for winning the coveted Male Performer of the Year Award at last night's prestigious Variety Artists Awards.
Nic, who plays brazen swindler Harold Hill in The Music Man, which opens this Thursday night, was saluted for his work as Charlie Price in Kinky Boots and Lord Farquard in Shrek by full house of industry heavyweights attending the event at Ellerslie.
Nic’s other credits include Monty Python’s Spamalot, Star Wars, The Producers, La Cage Aux Folles, Anything Goes, Cabaret, Grease, Jesus Christ Superstar, Ladies Night, Rent, Blood Brothers and Sweeney Todd. We are honoured to have him in our cast.
The Music Man will be performed live by our finest singers and musicians, sharing the stage with the Royal New Zealand Navy Band to create a wall of sound. In total, 74 people will be on stage -- one of the biggest companies assembled in Auckland for some time.
Featuring 24 big band songs, including the hit Seventy-six Trombones, this is an experience not to be missed at Auckland’s Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre, Aotea Centre. Great seats are available from Ticketmaster for just $65*.
Produced by the Amici Trust and G&T Productions – a collab responsible for recent musical hits including Mary Poppins, Jersey Boys and Kinky Boots – this four-day music extravaganza is a premiere event delivered in association with Auckland Live.
The Music Man was an instant smash hit when it premiered on Broadway in in 1957, running for 1,375 performances and winning the Tony Award for Best Musical. The cast album won a Grammy for Best Musical Theater Album and ranked on the Billboard charts for 245 weeks.
Its 2022 Broadway revival starring Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster achieved extraordinary success, playing 374 regular and 46 preview performances by the time it took its final bow.
As the best-known work by Meredith Willson, The Music Man follows the tale of brazen swindler Professor Harold Hill who arrives in River City, Iowa, promising uniforms, instruments and lessons for a new town band.
The locals are thrilled but in reality, Hill plans to leave River City as soon as he closes the sale. But those plans change when Hill meets Marian Paroo, or "Marian the Librarian," and finds himself falling for her. Soon Hill must follow through on his big promises or else lose out on his chance at love.
Playing Professor Hill’s love interest is Jess Rogers whose most recent credits include the New Zealand premiere and National Tour of Shrek The Musical and Madagascar The Musical. She is also a member of the vocal trio The Madeleines.
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