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When the musical about the singing Von Trapp family starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer was released in 1965, it caused a stir earning five Academy Awards, including Best Picture. (The ...
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 1949 memoir of Maria von Trapp, The Story of the Trapp Family Singers.
An Evening of Folk Songs with the Trapp Family Singers – Decca DL 9793; Christmas with the Trapp Family Singers – Deutsche Grammophon, 1953; The Best of the Trapp Family Singers – Decca, 1960; The Sound of Music Sung and Played by Members of the Famous Trapp Family Singers and Chorus – RCA, LSP-2277, 1960
The Sound of Music story is based on Maria von Trapp's memoir The Story of the Trapp Family Singers, published in 1949 to help promote her family's singing group following the death of her husband Georg in 1947. [8] Hollywood producers expressed interest in purchasing the title only, but Maria refused, wanting her entire story to be told. [8]
Set in Austria on the eve of the Anschluss in 1938, the musical tells the story of Maria, who takes a job as a nanny to the von Trapp family while she decides on whether or not to become a nun.
"So Long, Farewell" is a song from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s 1959 musical, The Sound of Music. It was included in the original Broadway run and was first performed by the Von Trapp children, played by Kathy Dunn, David Gress, Evanna Lien, Mary Susan Locke, Lauri Peters, Marilyn Rogers, Joseph Stewart, and Frances Underhill.
The hills are (still) alive! Nearly 57 years after The Sound of Music premiered, the cast has reunited in Julie Andrews’ honor. Julie Andrews Through the Years: From 'Sound of Music' to ...
"Something Good" is a song written by Richard Rodgers for the 1965 film version of the 1959 stage musical The Sound of Music. It replaced the original song sung by Maria and Captain Georg von Trapp called "An Ordinary Couple". Since then the song has been used in the various reproductions of the play and most recently the 2015 television ...