Audiences will hear the sounds of a barbershop quartet in the Star Players’ production of “The Music Man” to be staged Nov. 5-8. During the Fourth of July celebration held at River City’s high school, fast-talking Harold Hill convinces the townspeople they need a boys’ band to occupy their youth.
TIFFIN — Heidelberg University and The Ritz Players will perform “Shrek the Musical” at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Saturday and Oct. 17 and 2 p.m. Oct. 18 at The Ritz Theatre, 30 S. Washington St., Tiffin.
ADA — The Ohio Northern University Department of Music presents the ONU Symphony’s season-opening concert, “Destiny and Dvorˇák,” in the Freed Center for the Performing Arts at 5 p.m. Oct. 25. Under the direction of ONU music director Travis Jürgens, the program opens with Verdi’s “Overture to La Forza del Destino (The Force of Destiny),” followed by George Hüe’s “Fantasie for Flute and Orchestra,” which will be performed by Nicole Wells, a senior music performance major from Germantown, who won the department’s concerto competition.
ADA — Ohio Northern University’s Freed Center for the Performing Arts will present “Bram Stoker’s Dracula,” adapted by Charles Morey and performed by the Los Angeles Theatre Works, at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 17. In Charles Morey’s acclaimed adaptation, Count Dracula slips quietly into Victorian London with a cargo of his native Transylvanian soil, necessary for rest between his victims.
MARION — Director Clare Cooke has announced auditions for “Christmas at the Palace 2015-Hometown Blessings” will be held from 1-4 p.m. Oct. 18 on the Marion Palace Theatre main stage. All acts and ages will be considered for the family-friendly holiday show.
TIFFIN — Country music duo Love and Theft will perform at the Ritz Theatre, 30 S. Washington St., Tiffin, at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 31. It has been an exciting year for ACM/CMA/CMT-nominated country duo, Love And Theft.
TIFFIN — Tiffin Gospel Music Association will present its 14th annual Gospel Harvest Fest fro 1-7 p.m. Oct. 31 at The Salvation Army, 505 E. Market St., Tiffin.
The Star Players’ fall production of “The Music Man” will feature community favorites Ron Boose as fast-talking traveling salesman Harold Hill and Star veteran Keitha Voorheis as the respectable town librarian, along with ECOT teacher Rick Hudgel as Marcellus Washburn, Professor Hill’s sidekick.
The Star Theatre and the Wyandot County Young Professionals are having a black tie fundraiser, An Evening at the Star, on Oct. 10 at the Star Theatre. Doors open at 5:30 p.m., and the feature presentation, “That Touch of Mink,” begins at 7:30 p.m. as the first screening of a film on the theater’s new digital projector.
KENTON — TLC Ministries will present the 2015 singing revival series and free dinner Oct. 3 at Oasis of Life Worship Center, 127 N. Market St., Kenton. Dinner will be held from 4:45-5:45 p.m., with singing by Jericho Road, Donna Sue and the Homelighters to follow at 6 p.m.