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The Sound of Music May 29 - June 1, 2008 THE SOUND OF MUSIC Music by Richard Rodgers Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II Book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse based on the book The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria Von Trapp Directed by Tommy Jackson Thursday – Saturday, May 29 – 31, 2008, at 7:30 p.m Sunday, June 1, 2008, at 2:00 p.m. All Tickets: $15 The Sound of Music opened on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on November 16, 1959, and ran for 1,443 performances. It starred Mary Martin as Maria. It won numerous Tony awards including Best Musical and Best Actress in a Musical. It would prove to be the final musical written by Rodgers and Hammerstein. The famous soundtrack includes the songs "Edelweiss", "My Favorite Things", "Climb Every Mountain", "Do-Re-Mi", and "Sixteen Going On Seventeen". The film adaptation also won the Oscar for Best Film and starred Julie Andrews as Maria. An Andrew Lloyd Webber production is currently in revival in London. In the town of Salzburg in Austria, Maria, a woman studying for the Roman Catholic sisterhood in a convent, is sent out to be a governess to the seven children of Captain Georg Ritter von Trapp, a widower and a decorated World War I captain in the Austro-Hungarian Navy. Von Trapp is also an Austrian patriot at a time when it is safer to be friendly to the ascendant Nazi regime. The children, initially hostile and mischievous, soon come to like Maria, so she teaches them how to sing. She finds herself falling in love with the stern Captain, who is engaged to be married to Baroness Elsa Schräder. He too finds himself warming to the young governess. After winning the children's hearts by teaching the family the joy of song, and after some soul searching by Maria and misunderstandings fostered by the Baroness, Maria leaves the convent and marries the Captain. Maria and the Captain arrange for the family to escape, after a family concert, through the convent and over the mountains to Switzerland so that the Captain does not have to serve in the Kriegsmarine of the Third Reich.
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