"out all new choreography better suited for film that incorporated many of the Salzburg locations and settings. They even choreographed the newly added puppet dance sequence for ""The Lonely Goatherd"". The choreography for the ""Ländler"" strictly followed the traditional Austrian folk dance. The musical arranger Irwin Kostal prerecorded the songs with a large orchestra and singers on a stage prior to the start of filming. In her book, ""The Sound of Music: The Making of America's Favorite Movie"", Julia Antopol Hirsch says that Kostal used seven children and five adults to record the children's voices; the only scene where the"
"The Sound of Music The Sound of Music is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. It is based on the memoir of Maria von Trapp, ""The Story of the Trapp Family Singers"". Set in Austria on the eve of the ""Anschluss"" in 1938, the musical tells the story of Maria, who takes a job as governess to a large family while she decides whether to become a nun. She falls in love with the children, and eventually their widowed father, Captain von Trapp. He is"
"for the musical, but the composers felt the two styles—traditional Austrian folk songs and their composition—would not work, and offered to write a new score for the entire production. ""The Sound of Music"" opened on November 16, 1959, at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York City and ran on Broadway for 1,443 performances, winning six Tony Awards, including Best Musical. In June 1960, 20th Century Fox purchased the film rights to the Broadway musical for $1.25 million (equal to $ today) against 10% of the gross, and at that time, also purchased the rights to the two German films for"
"planned community on Roosevelt Island, in the East River between Manhattan and Queens, and later to Manhattan. The family later moved to Englewood, New Jersey, where Parker attended Dwight Morrow High School. Parker attended the School of American Ballet in New York City, the New York Professional Children's School, the School for Creative and Performing Arts in Cincinnati, and Hollywood High School in Los Angeles. Parker and four siblings appeared in a production of ""The Sound of Music"" at the outdoor Municipal Theatre (Muny) in St. Louis, Missouri. She was selected for a role in the new 1977–81 Broadway musical"
"The Sound of Music (song) “The Sound of Music” is the title song from the 1959 musical ""The Sound of Music."" It was composed by Richard Rodgers with lyrics written by Oscar Hammerstein II. In 1959, Rodgers and Hammerstein asked singer Patti Page to record the title song of their forthcoming musical, ""The Sound of Music"", hoping for some national attention. Page recorded the song for Mercury Records on the day that the musical opened on Broadway. Since Page's version was recorded a week before the original Broadway cast album, Page was the first artist to record any song from"
"the musical play and film ""The Sound of Music"". Traces of human settlements have been found in the area, dating to the Neolithic Age. The first settlements in Salzburg continuous with the present were apparently by the Celts around the 5th century BC. Around 15 BC the Roman Empire merged the settlements into one city. At this time, the city was called ""Juvavum"" and was awarded the status of a Roman ""municipium"" in 45 AD. Juvavum developed into an important town of the Roman province of Noricum. After the Norican frontiers collapse, Juvavum declined so sharply that by the late"
"ordered to accept a commission in the German navy, but he opposes the Nazis. He and Maria decide on a plan to flee Austria with the children. Many songs from the musical have become standards, such as ""Edelweiss"", ""My Favorite Things"", ""Climb Ev'ry Mountain"", ""Do-Re-Mi"", and the title song ""The Sound of Music"". The original Broadway production, starring Mary Martin and Theodore Bikel, opened in 1959 and won five Tony Awards, including Best Musical, out of nine nominations. The first London production opened at the Palace Theatre in 1961. The show has enjoyed numerous productions and revivals since then. It"
"The Sound of Music (film) The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical drama film produced and directed by Robert Wise, and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, with Richard Haydn and Eleanor Parker. The film is an adaptation of the 1959 stage musical of the same name, composed by Richard Rodgers with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. The film's screenplay was written by Ernest Lehman, adapted from the stage musical's book by Lindsay and Crouse. Based on the memoir ""The Story of the Trapp Family Singers"" by Maria von Trapp, the film is about a young Austrian woman"
"Theatre in New York City in September 2000, with the opening attended by cast members Charmian Carr (Liesl), Daniel Truhitte (Rolfe), and Kym Karath (Gretl). ""Sing-along Sound of Music"" screenings have since become an international phenomenon. In 2001, the United States Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the National Film Registry, finding it ""culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"". The Academy Film Archive preserved ""The Sound of Music"" in 2003. The first American television transmission of ""The Sound of Music"" was on February 29, 1976 on ABC, which paid $15 million for a one-time only broadcast that became"
"the in Salzburg Aigen on 28 July 2008, with his half-sister, Maria Franziska, and Erika, the widow of his half-brother, Werner. Johannes von Trapp Johannes von Trapp (born 17 January 1939) is an Austrian American singer and former member of the Trapp Family Singers, whose lives were the inspiration for the musical and movie ""The Sound of Music"". He is the tenth and youngest child. He was born in 1939 in Philadelphia while the family was on a concert tour. He was eight years old when his father Georg von Trapp died in 1947. His siblings are Rosmarie (born 1929)"
"Kuchl Kuchl is a market town in the Hallein district of Salzburg, Austria. Kuchl is situated in the broad valley of the Salzach river, part of the Salzburg Tennengau region. West of the river rises the Göll massif of the Berchtesgaden Alps range, forming the border with Germany. The municipal area comprises the cadastral communities Georgenberg, Jadorf, Kellau, Kuchl, and Weißenbach. The picturesque landscape and the church tower were featured in the opening credits of the musical film ""The Sound of Music"". The mansio of ""Cucullis"" in the Noricum province was already mentioned in the Tabula Peutingeriana, a Roman road"
"in the 2016–2017 season—for the 2017 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Best Original Score, Best Book of a Musical, Best Actress in a Musical for Benton, Best Actor in a Musical for Groban, Best Featured Actor in a Musical for Lucas Steele, and Best Direction of a Musical for Chavkin. It won two awards: Best Scenic Design for Mimi Lien and Best Lighting Design in a Musical for Bradley King. The story is set in Moscow, 1812, just before Napoleon's invasion of Russia and the burning of the city. The story begins by introducing the characters (""Prologue""), and then sets"
"and Russel Crouse, who had won the Pulitzer Prize for ""State of the Union"". They approached Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II to compose one song for the musical, but the composers felt the two styles—traditional Austrian folk songs and their composition—would not work together. They offered to write a complete new score for the entire production if the producers were willing to wait while they completed work on ""Flower Drum Song"". The producers quickly responded that they would wait as long as necessary. ""The Sound of Music"" stage musical opened on November 16, 1959 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in"
"influential in Europe with Bertie’s cousin Marguerite marrying Herbert von Bismark, son of the German chancellor Otto von Bismarck, whilst another cousin Agathe Whitehead, fell in love with and married an Austrian Kapitanleutnant Georg Johannes Von Trapp. Agathe died of scarlet fever in 1922 leaving Georg to bring up their 7 children with the help of a governess from the nearby Benedictine Nunnery, who taught them music. The musical the Sound of Music is based on the story of von Trapp and the governess Maria von Trapp who he later married. The Whitehead family had a factory in Weybridge in"
"(Stone), Anton Berezin (Stine), Amanda Harrison (Donna/Oolie) and Chelsea Plumley (Gabby/Bobbi). Porchlight Music Theatre presented ""City of Angels"" as a part of ""Porchlight Revisits"" in which they stage three forgotten musicals per year. It was in Chicago, Illinois in March 2015. It was directed by Christopher Pazdernik and music directed by Aaron Benham. The setting is Hollywood in the late 1940s, with two stories occurring simultaneously: a Hollywood comedy and a detective drama. The real-life scenes feature full-color sets and costumes, while the movie scenes are in black-and-white. Most of the cast (with the exception of the actors playing Stine"
"Workshops for the musical took place in 2014, in July in London and the following month in Los Angeles, with the intention to open the show in the West End in 2015, in time for the 30th anniversary of the film. The movie achieved success at the box office, taking over $380 million and was nominated for four Golden Globes, five Baftas and four Oscars, winning Best Sound Editing. It follows Marty McFly, a teenager who is accidentally sent back in time in a DeLorean to 1955. He meets his future parents in high school and accidentally attracts his mother's"
"Award for Best Musical. This has been followed by a string of professional tours and worldwide productions and numerous cast albums, as well as a major 1996 film of the musical starring Madonna and Antonio Banderas. The musical was revived in London in 2006, and on Broadway in 2012, and toured the UK again in 2013–14 before running for 55 West End performances at the Dominion Theatre in September–October 2014. Act I In 1952 Buenos Aires, Argentina, a crowd is watching a film (""A Cinema in Buenos Aires, July 26, 1952"") that is interrupted when news breaks of the death"
"internment camp run by the Wehrmacht armed forces. Mainly French and Red Army POWs were interred here, about 4,000 Soviet inmates were killed or succumbed to the conditions of their detention. A 'Russian Cemetery' and a monument to this camp is located on the north end of the city. About 20 km north of St. Johann, a small portion of a picnic scene from ""The Sound of Music"" was filmed on a hillside, in the Pongau city of Werfen. Julie Andrews and crew filmed the opening shots of the ""Do-Re-Mi"" sequence with the Burg Hohenwerfen in the background. Werfen was"
"Sound of Music"" at the Princess of Wales Theatre in Toronto. Initial auditions were held in seven Canadian cities. The show was hosted by Gavin Crawford and featured Simon Lee, Elaine Overholt, and John Barrowman as the judges for the show. The first episode of the show featured the top 50 auditioners at the show's ""Maria School"" being cut to 20. The second episode had the Marias performing in front of Lloyd Webber in London, and then the 20 were cut to 10 with his input. Beginning June 22, the Marias performed live in Toronto every Sunday night. The voting"
"Gluck, and in 2016 she sang Maria in Leonard Bernstein's ""West Side Story"". Salzburg Festival The Salzburg Festival () is a prominent festival of music and drama established in 1920. It is held each summer (for five weeks starting in late July) in the Austrian town of Salzburg, the birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. One highlight is the annual performance of the play ""Jedermann"" (""Everyman"") by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Since 1967, an annual Salzburg Easter Festival has also been held, organized by a separate organization. Music festivals had been held in Salzburg at irregular intervals since 1877 held by the"
"Her parents, natives of Iowa, were practicing Episcopalians and conservative Republicans. She is of mostly German and English descent. The youngest of four children, she has an older sister Jane (b. 1953), two older brothers Bradley (b. 1955) and Byron (b. 1957). The family moved to Wichita, Kansas in 1959, where she spent her early childhood. In 1965, her father took a job with a company in San Diego, California, and they moved there. She began acting in junior high school, playing the lead in ""The Sound of Music"". She graduated in 1975 from Patrick Henry High School, where she"
"at the Venice Film Festival. One of her most memorable roles was that of ""the Baroness"" in ""The Sound of Music"" (1965). Parker was born on June 26, 1922, in Cedarville, Ohio, the daughter of Lola (Isett) and Lester Day Parker. She moved with her family to East Cleveland, Ohio, where she attended public schools and graduated from Shaw High School. ""Ever since I can remember all I wanted to do is act,"" she said. ""But I didn't just dream about it, I worked at it."" She appeared in a number of school plays. After graduation she went to Martha's"
"New York City from 2003 to 2005, and a series of concerts at Symphony Space in February 2006. It was further developed in Seattle, with workshop readings in June 2006 and a full developmental production in June 2007. Under its new name, ""Signs of Life"", the musical had its world premiere Off-Broadway at the Marjorie S. Deane Little Theatre, in a limited run from February 25 through March 21, 2010. ""Backstage"" wrote that ""The most intriguing contribution comes from composer Joel Derfner, whose music is always memorable and thoughtfully conceived, especially a moving number for the German officer Heindel ..."
"will be premiered at the New York Film Festival on 15 October 2016. Huttlestone was born in Havering, Greater London, England, the second of three children of Linda, a homemaker, and Mark Huttlestone, a company managing director. He has an elder brother, Thomas Andrew (born 1997), who is also an actor and has appeared as Friedrich Von Trapp in ""The Sound of Music"" UK Tour 2011. His younger sister, Sarah Rosina (born 2005), is an actress who is set to appear in Regent's Open Air Theatre production of ""The Sound of Music"", with his former ""Les Misérables"" co-star Isabelle Allen."
"Broadway star Rebecca Luker, who has appeared as Christine in ""The Phantom of the Opera"", Maria in ""The Sound of Music"", Marian in ""The Music Man"", Claudia in ""Nine"", and Mrs. Banks in ""Mary Poppins"". Luker has been nominated for a Tony Award three times. Helena native Liz Cochran is Miss Alabama 2009 competed in the 2010 Miss America Pageant Helena, Alabama Helena (pronunciation hel-LE-nah) is a city in Jefferson and Shelby Counties in the state of Alabama. Helena is considered a suburb of Birmingham and part of the Birmingham-Hoover Metropolitan Area. As of the 2010 census, the population was"
"action on stage. The Felsenreitschule shares its foyer with the Kleines Festspielhaus (House for Mozart). The Felsenreitschule was used as a location in the 1965 film version of ""The Sound of Music"". It is the site of the music festival from which the von Trapp family disappear. Felsenreitschule The Felsenreitschule (literally ""rock riding school"") is a theatre in Salzburg, Austria and a venue of the Salzburg Festival. A first Baroque theatre was erected in 1693–94 at the behest of the Salzburg prince-archbishop Johann Ernst von Thun, according to plans probably designed by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach. Built in the"
"Sound of Music"" (as Maria). The production sold out in many major cities and received glowing reviews from critics. Marie and Donny produced a holiday musical called ""Donny & Marie – A Broadway Christmas"", which was originally scheduled to play on Broadway at the Marquis Theatre from December 9 to 19, 2010. The show was then extended until December 30, 2010, and again to January 2, 2011. The Christmas show was so successful that it was turned into a touring production, and is now a yearly event in several cities across the US. Osmond has authored three books, all of"
"in the mid-1950s, and takes place on Cannery Row in Monterey, California. In the Steinbeck book which forms the basis for the musical, the Bear Flag is a bordello and Suzy a prostitute. This is alluded to in the musical, but never expressed outright. In the early morning hours, marine biologist Doc is already at work in his one-man Western Biological Laboratory, getting an order of starfish ready to be shipped to a university. His unintelligent friend Hazel (a man) comes in to chat with him (""All Kinds of People""). Millicent, a wealthy young lady, enters from the next room,"
"worldwide. Recent CD editions incorporate musical material from the film that would not fit on the original LP. The label has also issued the soundtrack in German, Italian, Spanish and French editions. RCA Victor also released an album of the 1998 Broadway revival produced by Hallmark Entertainment and featuring the full revival cast, including Rebecca Luker, Michael Siberry, Jan Maxwell and Fred Applegate. The Telarc label made a studio cast recording of ""The Sound of Music"", with the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra conducted by Erich Kunzel (1987). The lead roles went to opera stars: Frederica von Stade as Maria, Håkan Hagegård"
"the lead role of Maria in the 1990 revival of ""The Sound of Music"" mounted at Lincoln Center (nominated as Outstanding Musical Revival by the Drama Desk Awards): Boone had earlier played Maria on tour in both 1987 and 1988 with 1987 dates including the Sacramento Music Circus (premiere), the O'Keefe Centre (Toronto), the Starlight Theater in Kansas City (Missouri), and the Westbury (New York) Music Fair, and 1988 dates including the Fox Theatre (Atlanta) (premiere), Benedum Center (Pittsburgh), Fair Park Music Hall (Dallas), Hilton U. Brown Theatre at Butler University (Indianapolis), and also four dates in Japan. Boone would"
"original festival hall, suitable only for concerts, was reconstructed as a third venue for fully staged opera and concert performances and reopened in 2006 as the Haus für Mozart (House for Mozart). During the years from 1934 to 1937 famed conductors such as Arturo Toscanini and Bruno Walter conducted many performances. In 1936, the festival featured a performance by the Trapp Family Singers, whose story was later dramatized as the musical and film ""The Sound of Music"" (featuring a scene of the Trapp Family singing at the ""Felsenreitschule"", but inaccurately set in 1938). In 1937, Boyd Neel and his orchestra"
"national archive of the Resistance, in 1964 the federal government approved the construction of the first memorial for the victims of concentration camps in Mauthausen. The society interpreted these cautious steps as a challenge for the dominating ultra-right views and resisted ""the attempts to blacken the past"". During the shooting of a musical film The Sound of Music, the plot of which unfolds just in times of the Anschluss and after, the authorities of Salzburg forbade the producers to decorate the streets of the town with Nazi symbols insisting that ""there had never been Nazis in Salzburg"". They retreated only"
"the mountain. The landmark gained international fame as the ""distinctive, lopsided peak"" featured at the beginning and end of the 1965 movie ""The Sound of Music"", although the filming was done on the German side, not the Austrian side. It was where Julie Andrews sang ""The Hills Are Alive"" at the opening scene and where the family climbed the mountain on their escape to Switzerland at the end of the film. The mountain also lends its name to an 1829 opera, ""Der Untersberg,"" by Johann Nepomuk von Poißl (1783–1865). The Untersberger marble ball mills are located in Marktschellenberg in Berchtesgaden,"