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2009 Media Kit



Opening Night May 22, 2009

Summer 2009 Release

The Music Man Celebrates Its Seventh Year
Will Have Served 250,000 Customers at the Jersey Shore!

LAVALLETTE — Imagine serving every single person in one of those cities an ice cream sundae and a smile. As The Music Man Ice Cream Shoppe marks its seventh season this summer, it will have done something similar by serving a quarter million people.
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Summer 2008
Asbury Park Press

Asbury Park Press Readers Name The Music Man "The Best"

LAVALLETTE — The Music Man Singing Ice Cream Shoppe was names "The Best" Place to Listen to Live Music.




Al and Jami Sessa and their daughters Abigail [from left], Sophia and Isabella, took part in a breast cancer research fund-raiser in Lavallette on Sunday. Photo by JOSEPH J. DELCONZO, STAR NEWS GROUP

Ocean Star on 08/08/08

Breast cancer walk draws hundreds

LAVALLETTE — Nearly 900 walkers joined in the annual “Working Together To Lick This Disease” breast cancer walk, here, on Sunday, helping the event hit a milestone. .
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Asbury Park Press on 07/16/08

Cool down with the Wicked Witch — or The Music Man

..."It's like seeing a Broadway show every night," said Jackie Mazzaucco, 41, of Colts Neck, who recently brought her family in four times in one week.
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Your Child Today
July 2008

Featured: The Music Man

"You know the saying, “I scream, you scream, we all scream for Ice Cream!” Well, depending on what you order at The Music Man Singing Ice Cream Shoppe, in Lavallette
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Published on
January 29, 2008 on BroadwayWorld.com

'They're Playing Our Song' Hits Off-Bway & NJ

NEW YORK — A partnership of Lake Tappan Entertainment and the nationally recognized Music Man Theatrical, located in Lavallette, NJ is opening its doors Friday thru Sunday, February 8th -10th, for a limited dessert theatre run of Neil Simon and Marvin Hamlisch’s 1979 Tony-nominated musical, They’re Playing Our Song. The production
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Asbury Park Press on 09/8/07

Shore shop offers up celebration, topped with a cherry

LAVALLETTE — The event held at The Music Man had all the trappings of a birthday party. There was ice cream, of course, in chocolate, vanilla and strawberry. There were games to win, prizes for the winners, hats to wear and songs in which everyone participated.
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Asbury Park Press on 08/6/07

WALK DRAWS 700
$21,000 to fight breast cancer


LAVALLETTE — Antoinette "Tone" Agliata of Manahawkin is a 12-year breast cancer survivor, so four years ago, her son and daughter-in-law decided to start The Tone Foundation to raise money to fight the disease.(click to continue---->


Ocean County Observer on 08/6/07

Breast cancer walk a success

LAVALLETTE — A record crowd, raising record amounts of money, was just what the doctor order yesterday morning at the fourth annual Lavallette Breast Cancer Walk.(click to continue---->


Shore Guide '07
New Jersey Monthly

Ice Cream Entertainers

Ice Cream Entertainers A clown horn toots, and a server in a striped vest and bow tie scurries to a table shouting, “Ladies and gentlemen, this man ordered a cantaloupe sundae. (click to continue---->)


Featured June 2007 on
njmyway.com

Tonight the full schedule of shows begins at The Music Man in Lavallette. It’s a small town ice cream parlor with musical performances, and it adds a sweet finish to a day at the beach.(click to continue---->)



Music Man honored in Two Catagories as "The Best"

Summer 2006
Asbury Park Press

Readers Name The Music Man "The Best"

LAVALLETTE — The Music Man Sining Ice Cream Shoppe was names "The Best" Place to Listen to Live Music & "The Best" place to have a Kids Birthday Party in Ocean County.



September 22, 2006

The Music Man Educational Outreach partners with a National Outreach for NJ/PA/NY Schools

Recently, Mr. Agliata [The Music Man] joined forces with Ignite, an offshoot of Great American Opportunities. Ignites' founders created and delivered the first on-site student mentoring program where students positively impacted younger students. Mr. Agliata said as part of the education outreach program, he and other members of the Ignite team travel to local schools to teach lessons on a variety of subjects, such as leadership and character education. (click to continue---->)



August 19, 2006 - The Asbury Park Press

Community hoofs it to beat breast cancer
The walk was started three years ago by Robert Agliata and his wife, Josephine Sessa-Agliata, the owners of the ice cream shop, in honor of Agliata's mother, Antoinette "Tone" Agliata, of Stafford, who is an 11-year survivor of breast cancer.(click to continue---->)



Brian Thorton (left) of Brick and Jenna Bracciale of Lavallette prepare ice cream orders for customers at The Music Man Ice Cream Shoppe in Lavallette.

(STAFF PHOTO: JEANNIE CLAUDIO)

August 11, 2006 - The Islander

Summer at the Shore:
How sweet it is
!
Cold ice cream and hot summer days seem to go hand in hand, which might explain why ice cream is a favorite at the Shore. The Music Man Ice Cream Shoppe in Lavallette puts a theatrical twist on this cool confection, serving up songs along with scoops. (click to continue---->)



July 12, 2006

Song-and-dance ice cream parlor wins over tough teenage critics

I had a headache by the time we got to The Music Man. Eric and Taylor were 14 now, they kept reminding me from the back seat. Didn't I know they were way too cool for a singing waiter show? And what if these corny people came up to them and tried to make them do something -- like dance?"(click to continue---->)


Music Man reopens May 26th and is ready for a terrific summer

May 6, 2006 - Press Release

Opening Night 2006 May 26th

LAVALLETTE — Ten year-old Kyle Gaughan couldn't agree more. He's been a repeat customer since the Shoppe opened Memorial Day weekend 2003. "The Music Man is awesome. My favorite song that the cast performs is Day-O," Gaughan says of the Harry Belafonte classic. "I like the part where the waiters and waitresses shout 'everybody' and we get to sing along with them."(click to continue---->)


Music Man is honored as One of the Best

Summer 2005- Asbury Park Press

Readers Name The Music Man One of the Best

LAVALLETTE — The Music Man Sining Ice Cream Shoppe is named one of the Best Place to Hear live Music in Ocean County.


Hope, support at heart of walk

Published on August 8, 2005, in the Ocean County Observer

BREAST CANCER WALK DUBBED A SUCCESS:

LAVALLETTE — Big things can happen in small towns. Case in point: the Lavallette Breast Cancer Walk, a grass-roots fundraiser, has grown in more ways than one.(click to continue---->)


Publisher in The Ocean Star
August 5, 2005

Getting closer to a cure one step at a time

LAVALLETTE — According to the American Cancer Society, every two minutes a woman in the United States is diagnosed with breast cancer. (click to continue---->)


Music Man reaches NJ schools through Educational Musical Outreach

10/14/04 - Press Release

Educational Musical Outreach Program

Colts Neck, NJ - "...taken their audience's advice and is taking its "show on the road." "We've created cost effective programs that allow schools to take part in high quality presentations and instruction (click to continue---->)


Lavallette Breast Cancer Walk
August 8, 2004

8/04/04 - Asbury Park Press

Cold comfort: Ice cream shop holds walk to fight cancer

LAVALLETTE - Agliata doesn't like to talk about her fight against breast cancer. "I don't care how many years ago it happened. It's like a monkey on your back," said the Stafford Township resident, who was diagnosed with breast cancer nine years ago and is now in remission. (click to continue---->)


in
Lavallette

7/15/2004 - Asbury Park Press

Ice cream? First, a song and a dance

LAVALLETTE - Be ready to do more than eat when you stop at The Music Man Singing Ice Cream Shoppe, where singing and dancing are as much a part of the menu as a banana split. (click to continue---->)


7/1/2004 - Press Release

The Music Man Singing Ice Cream Shoppe Holds Walk to Honor Breast Cancer Patients, Survivors and Help Save Lives.

LAVALLETTE - Breast cancer will strike more than 200,000 times this year and claim more than 40,000 lives, according to the American Cancer Society. But The Music Man Singing Ice Cream Shoppe and hundreds of walkers are doing something about it. (click to continue---->)


8/23/2003 - Ocean County Observer

The Music Man offers ice cream
for - and with - a song.

LAVALLETTE - There's always that one little seasonal place you didn't know was there until you find it near summers close.

Then you wish you'd had all summer to go there and enjoy the food, the atmosphere or the view before Labor Day comes to spoil it. (click to continue---->)


7/25/2003 - The Islander

Music Man Ice Cream provides a sweet tune

LAVALLETTE - From the red and white checkerboard-tiled floor to the singing servers' saddle shoes and bow ties, the Music Man Ice Cream Shoppe, Grand Central Avenue, Lavallette, is big on fun and nostalgia. (click to continue---->)


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