“The Sound of Music,” Rodgers and Hammerstein’s last collaboration, opens at Town & Country Players on Route 263 in Buckingham July 15 and runs weekends through Aug. 6.
“The Sound of Music” opened on Broadway in 1959 and won six Tony’s including Best Musical. The well-loved film adaptation followed in 1965 winning five Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
Director John Neuman credits the film with spawning his love of theater. “I’m particularly interested in the way the musical deals with the idea of struggling to find one’s purpose and the ways in which we sometimes fight against the callings placed on our lives until something makes that calling clear.”
“The Sound of Music” is based on the memoir of Maria Augusta Trapp, and tells the story of an ebullient postulate who serves as governess to the seven children of the imperious Captain Von Trapp. The show is set in 1938 Austria just before the Nazi occupation of the country.
The show is a timeless classic with some of the most well-known and loved musical theater songs ever written including, “My Favorite Things,” “Edelweiss,” “Sixteen Going on Seventeen,” “Do-Re-Mi,” and the title song, “The Sound of Music.”
Curtain time is 8 p.m. for Friday and Saturday evening shows and 2 p.m. for Saturday and Sunday matinees. For information and tickets, visit townandcountryplayers.org or call 215-348-7566.
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