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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.
The family's story later served as the basis for a memoir, two German films, and the Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway musical The Sound of Music. The last surviving of the original seven (born to Captain von Trapp and his wife Agathe Whitehead), Maria Franziska , died in 2014 at the age of 99.
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]
How to Watch The Sound of Music “Climb Ev'ry Mountain,” “My Favorite Things,” “Do Re Mi,” "Sixteen Going on Seventeen” and, of course, “The Sound of Music” are timeless songs ...
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.
The Trapp Family became one of the most successful German films of the 1950s and was the inspiration for the even more fictionalized 1959 Broadway musical The Sound of Music, and its highly successful 1965 film version. The film had one sequel, The Trapp Family in America (1958).
The Sound of Music, 1959 stage musical; also see other stage adaptations in this article The Sound of Music , 1965 film starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer Trapp Ikka Monogatari ( Trapp Family Story ), 1991 animated TV series, part of World Masterpiece Theater (The only animated adaptation of the book.)
A new version of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “The Sound of Music” soundtrack, featuring more than 40 previously unreleased tracks and unheard vocals by Christopher Plummer, will debut on Dec. 1.