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The Sound of Music
Tuesday 6th March to Saturday 17th March, 2012
at Theatre Royal, York
York Light Opera Company is proud to announce that it will be performing the award winning musical 'The Sound of Music' at the Theatre Royal, York from the 6-17 March 2012.
The Sound of Music was orginally conceived as a play, it was to feature songs from the repertoire of the Trapp Family Singers. Broadway star Mary Martin who was to play Maria had an inspired idea. She asked her good friends Richard Rodgers (the composer) and Oscar Hammerstein (the lyricist) if they would write a song especially for her to sing in her new play.
R&H were sceptical and felt that the play should either be transformed into a musical, with an entirely new score that they would write, or it should remain a play, dotted with authentic folk music. Furthermore, the ever-in-demand R&H cautioned that if they were to join this project, it would have to wait at least one year since they were in the midst of writing another musical, Flower Drum Song. The flattering reply from Martin and Co.? "We'll wait."
The musical was ready to go by mid-summer 1959 and rehearsals began in August, the world premier occurred in New Haven in October, and Broadway had a new smash hit musical by November.
So, in York, the hills are alive once more with the sound of a nun and a singing family telling us about a few of their favourite things, edelweiss and explaining that a doe is a deer, a female deer!
Widowed Captain Von Trapp employs a young nun Maria as a governess to his seven rowdy children, who have already seen off a host of other nannies. Through her love and the power of music she bonds with the children, while also falling in love with their father. This Rodgers & Hammerstein show is one of the world's most loved musical and won six Tony Awards when it premiered on Broadway in 1959. The 1965 Hollywood film, in which Julie Andrews donned the habit, won five Oscars, including Best Picture. The score for The Sound of Music touches the hearts of all ages and brims over with some of the most memorable songs ever performed on the musical stage including My Favourite Things, Do-Re-Me, Edelweiss, Climb Ev'ry Mountain, Sixteen Going on Seventeen, The Lonely Goatherd and of course the glorious title song The Sound of Music!
The perfect theatrical experience for the entire family!
Tickets available from the Theatre Royal box office. Click here! |
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Sound of Music Rehearsals with 'Rodgers' team, photography by Chris Green |
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