It’s always amazing to watch the incredible transformations that take place during the course of a musical production.

Such is the case with CSTOCK’s current show in progress, “The Music Man.”

There are physical transformations – set design, construction, and lighting – that turn a darkened empty theater into turn-of-the-century River City Iowa.

Skilled seamstresses effectively transport the cast back to the early 1900′s through creative costuming.

Talented musicians resurrect the works of W.C. Handy and John Philip Sousa.

Dedicated actors and actresses become deeply immersed in the development of  their characters.

And, as the curtain rises, audiences become temporarily suspended in time and space.  The worries and cares of the present are replaced by the simpler days of a bygone era. Now our biggest concern is whether our boys are re-buckling their knickerbockers ‘below’ the knee, or that the town library contains a book by Chaucer!

The Wells Fargo Wagon is coming to Kitsap County WA in February, loaded with instruments, uniforms, and ‘The Music Man!’