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.
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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