Shirley Jones and Patrick Cassidy

Little Rock connection: Academy Award winner Jones has appeared with the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra. She and Cassidy, her son, will star in a production of The Music Man which Celebrity Attractions is bringing to Central Arkansas next year.

Tony Awards connection: Jones and Cassidy co-starred in the Tony winning revival of 42nd Street.  Cassidy also starred in the Tony nominated Best Musical Leader of the Pack and was featured at the 1985 Tony ceremony with that production.  Jones’ first husband (and Cassidy’s father) Jack Cassidy was a Tony winning actor.