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Presented on November 5, 6, 12, 13, 19, and 20, 2004 at the
Civic Center Little Theater.
All shows begin at 8:00 PM. A matinee is presented on Sunday,
November 14, 2004 at 3:00 PM. Two special school system-only
performances are presented on Wednesday, November 10 and Thursday, November
18, 2004.
Assigned seats are $18.
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Overview
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Set in 1938, The Sound of Music, is based on Maria Von Trapp’s autobiography
The Story of the Trapp Family Singers. Maria Rainer is a free-spirited nun whose
love of freedom makes it obvious to her superiors that she is not suited for
religious life. Thus, she is sent off to be the governess to Captain
Georg Von Trapp’s seven troublesome children. Unlike previous governesses,
Maria becomes
friends with the children due to their mutual love of music. Soon even the
strict Captain, who is engaged to Elsa, a wealthy socialite, begins to admire
Maria.
Eventually, the Captain and Maria fall in love and are married. Unfortunately,
when the Nazis invade their Austrian homeland, the whole family is forced to
flee over the Alps to escape.
With The Sound of Music, the epoch-making collaboration of Richard Rodgers
(1902-1979) and
Oscar Hammerstein II (1895-1960) came to an end. Hammerstein passed away nine months after
the
November 16, 1959 opening of this classic which would eventually become the
second longest running Broadway musical of the fifties. The original production
featured Mary Martin and Theodore Bikel. The 1965 film version co-starred Julie
Andrews and Christopher Plummer. A successful 1998 Broadway revival starred
Rebecca Luker.
The celebrated score includes the well-known favorites The Sound of Music,
My Favorite Things,
Do-Re-Mi, Sixteen Going on Seventeen, Climb Ev’ry Mountain, and
Edelweiss.
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Characters
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Maria Ranier
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A lively, vivacious, and very musical
Governess
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Shelli Chittum
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Captain Georg von Trapp
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A retired naval officer and strict
father
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Dan Henthorn
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Mother Abbess
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The firm but understanding Mother of
Nonnberg Abbey
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Deborah Lucas
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Liesl
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von Trapp starry-eyed eldest daughter
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Miranda Shamblin
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Friedrich
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von Trapp eldest son
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Mitchell Kawash
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Louisa
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von Trapp thirteen year old daughter
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Johanna Miesner
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Kurt
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von Trapp ten year old son
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Donovan Miesner
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Brigitta
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von Trapp nine year old precocious
daughter
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Chandler Younis
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Marta
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von Trapp seven year old daughter
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Abi Helmick
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Gretl
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von Trapp youngest daughter
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Caroline Shumate
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Rolf Gruber
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Liesl's seventeen year old boyfriend
who eventually fights for the Nazis
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Jared L. Brown
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Elsa Schrader
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The Captain's attractive and wealthy
fiancée
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Laurie Pennington
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Max Detweiler
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A manipulative, penniless impresario
who is a friend of the Captain's
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Joe Romagnoli
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Frau Schmidt
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The von Trapp housekeeper
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Caroline Chamness
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Franz
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The von Trapp butler
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Tom Marchio
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Sister Berthe
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The strict Mistress of the Novices
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Becky Price
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Sister Margaretta
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The kind Mistress of the Postulants
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Elizabeth Null
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Sister Sophia
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A Nun at the Abbey
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Linda Barbera Reynolds
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Admiral von Schreiber
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A Nazi Admiral
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Louis Husson
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Herr Zeller
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The village bully
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Alan Pennington
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Baron Elberfeld
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John Miesner
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Postulant
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Ann McBurney
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Postulant
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Kristen Pennington
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Postulant
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Cassie Sorrells
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Nuns' Chorus
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Marsha Brown
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Nuns' Chorus
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Pam Higgs
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Nuns' Chorus
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Peggy King
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Nuns' Chorus
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Mindy Miesner
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Nuns' Chorus
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Millie Payne
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Nuns' Chorus
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Betty Perry
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Nuns' Chorus
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Phyllis Sadd
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Nazi
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Mike Cox
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Nazi
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Mark Felton
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Nazi
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Adam Gearhart
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Nazi
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Shawn Price
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Musical Numbers
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The Sound of Music
Maria
My Favorite Things
Do-Re-Mi
Sixteen Going on Seventeen
The Lonely Goatherd
How Can Love Survive?
So Long, Farewell
Climb Every Mountain
Something Good
Edelweiss
Click
here for sheet music information.
(This
link will transfer you to a web site that is external to this Guild site and
should not be construed as an endorsement of any kind by the Guild).
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Production
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Original Broadway Production:
Music by Richard Rodgers; Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II; Book by Howard Lindsay
and Russell Crouse.
For the Guild: Directed by Nina Denton
Pasinetti; Technical Direction by Tom Pasinetti; Musical Direction by John
Marshall; Piano Accompaniment by Mary Ellen Logsdon.
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