The Sound Of Music
Music by Richard Rodgers
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse
Suggested by “The Story of the von Trapp Family Singers”
Performed
June 25-28, July 1-3, 8-12, 2003
at
The Boal Barn Playhouse
Production Staff
Director | Kim Silverman |
Music Director | Jo Henry |
Choreographer | Caitlin Osborne |
Scenic Designer | Brandon Phillips |
Costume Designer | Edna M. Immel |
Technical Director | Steve McGuire |
Lighting Designer | Donald Ishler III |
Stage Manager | Samantha E. Huckabee |
Apprentice Coordinator | William C. Mulberger |
About the Show
After seeing a German movie on the Trapp family, Mary Martin thought the material would make a good play for her. Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse of Life with Father fame would write the script which would use music from the Trapp repertoire. But one more song was needed; Martin turned to her friends Rodgers and Hammerstein who thought the material would make a better musical than a play. Thus The Sound of Music was born.
Coming after a string of disappointing Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals (Me and Juliet, Pipe Dream, and Flower Drum Song) The Sound of Music, with its wonderfully tuneful score, was a welcomed and huge success despite mixed reviews that criticized the book – the only one in his collaboration with Rodgers that Hammerstein did not author or co-author – as overly sentimental. To some, the musical was more conventional than the groundbreaking Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals of the 1940s: Oklahoma, Carousel, Allegro, and South Pacific. Still, it had a long run. Sadly, it was the last musical the team wrote; Hammerstein died nine months after it opened. Over the years The Sound of Music has proven to be the most popular of their nine shows – after all, who can resist singing nuns and apple-cheeked children? And then there’s the movie; one of the most successful ever made. The movie has now achieved cult status. Audiences arrive at screenings dressed as nuns or female deer or “some of my favorite things” to sing along with Julie Andrews and company.
The Sound of Music ends dramatically as the Trapp family, climbing every mountain and fording every stream, makes its way over the Alps to escape the Nazis. But if truth be told, the family boarded a train to Italy on its way to America.
Richard Gidez for SCCT
The Cast
(in order of appearance)
Mother Abbess | Cathy Hutzell |
Sister Berthe | Betty Bechtel |
Sister Margaretta | Heather Summers |
Sister Sophia | Kathy DiMuccio |
Nun/Chorus | Tonya Daher Kat Kleman Davis Marcy Perini |
Postulant/Chorus | Maggie Lee Stephanie Lowden |
New Postulant/Chorus | Katie Martin |
Maria | Abbey Foard |
Captain von Trapp | Chris Gamble |
Franz | Charlie Wilson |
Frau Schmidt | Claire Brannen |
Friedrich | Jonathan Bojan |
Liesl | Maggie Cox |
Brigitta | Desiree Dennis |
Marta | Emily Dennis |
Gretl | Jordan Glover |
Louisa | Leah Mueller |
Kurt | Christopher Perini |
Rolf | Jason Heiman |
Elsa Schraeder | Sally Best-Irvin |
Max | Russel Bloom Mike Waldheir (Understudy) |
Herr Zeller/Chorus/Dancer | Scott Miller |
Baron Elberfeld/Chorus | David R. Piltz |
Baroness Elberfeld/Nun/Dancer | Lauren Kenny |
Admiral von Schreiber/Chorus | James Hall |
Chorus/Extra/Dancer | Samuel Umbriac |
Trio of Herneben | Samuel Umbriac Maggie Lee Katie Martin |
Fraulein Schreiber | Tonya Daher |