About The Sound of Music

Our Virtual Event

This spring's production looks very different! Our four shows will be scheduled "virtual" events that you may watch at home. When you purchase tickets through this website, you will be assigned a unique login, and you will receive an email the day of the show with how to watch. We only have two ticket prices: individual and family. We just ask that you consider an additional donation if your audience at home is more than a couple people. There are fees associated with the online platform and streaming service, but we are absorbing those fees. 


We have worked hard to problem solve through our current mandates, and we are proud to bring you this show with our live orchestra. We will be filming scenes in smaller chunks over several days in April and will edit the show to be available to you on April 22, 23, 29 & 30, beginning at 6:30 each night. The show is only available for viewing at these specific dates and times, so mark those calendars! 

For our students and patrons, we want to provide an experience that is as close to live theatre as we can. We will treat our filming days like live productions and will stream the musical as performed for the cameras. We will not do multiple takes and will only edit enough to put the show together--we want you there with us to see the beauty and even the inevitable glorious mishaps of the theatre experience! 

A few roles have been double cast. CAST A will broadcast on April 22 & 30 and CAST B will broadcast on April 23 & 29. 

We are also excited to launch this show page! Please check back often to see updates and photos!


The Sound of Music Background

The Sound of Music is the final collaboration between Rodgers & Hammerstein. Featuring a trove of cherished songs, including "Climb Ev'ry Mountain," "My Favorite Things," "Do Re Mi," "Sixteen Going on Seventeen" and the title number, The Sound of Music won the hearts of audiences worldwide, earning five Tony Awards and five Oscars. The inspirational story, based on the memoir of Maria Augusta Trapp, follows a postulate who serves as governess to the seven children of Captain Von Trapp, bringing music and joy to the household. But as the forces of Nazism take hold of Austria, Maria and the entire Von Trapp family must make a moral decision.

The Sound of Music opened at Broadway's Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on November 16, 1959, and Rodgers & Hammerstein’s last musical was a triumph. It ran for 1,443 performances and earned five Tony Awards, including Best Musical. 

In 1965 the motion picture version of The Sound of Music was released starring Julie Andrews as Maria, Christopher Plummer as the Captain, Eleanor Parker as Elsa, Peggy Wood as the Mother Abbess and Charmian Carr as Liesl. The Sound of Music has become the most popular movie musical ever made.

Source: The Sound of Music. (n.d.). Retrieved January 13, 2021, from https://www.concordtheatricals.com/p/57263/the-sound-of-music#:~:text=The%20inspirational%20story%2C%20based%20on,and%20joy%20to%20the%20household.


ARTWORK BY MATT RUE


MUSIC BY RICHARD ROGERS

LYRICS BY OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II

BOOK BY HOWARD LINDSAY AND RUSSEL CROUSE

SUGGESTED BY "THE TRAPP FAMILY SINGERS" BY MARIA AGUSTA TRAPP


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