Fox has again taken great strides to ensure that this DTS HD Master Audio soundtrack sounds just as good as it should. You might not like this movie, but chances are you’ve heard of it and you realize how popular it has become.

The Sound of Music - Wikipedia The Sound of Music - Wikipedia

It starred Charlotte Wakefield as Maria, with Michael Xavier as Captain von Trapp and Caroline Keiff as Elsa. The Telarc label made a studio cast recording of The Sound of Music, with the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra conducted by Erich Kunzel (1987). The recording "includes both the two new songs written for the film version and the three Broadway songs they replace, as well as a previously unrecorded verse of "An Ordinary Couple"". Maria says that he cannot leave immediately, as they are all singing in the Festival concert; and the Admiral agrees to wait.Max asks for an encore and announces that this is the von Trapp family's last chance to sing together, as the honor guard waits to escort the Captain to his new command. The second track is with actors Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Charmian Carr, Dee Dee Wood and Johannes von Trapp.

The Sound of Music 45th Anniversary Edition (DVD + Blu-ray

The Sound of Music – Original London Cast" Archived March 16, 2018, at the Wayback Machine, Castalbums. He explains that the German Navy holds him in high regard, offers him the commission, and tells him to report immediately to Bremerhaven to assume command. However, he said, the libretto "has the hackneyed look of the musical theatre replaced with Oklahoma! The Captain gives a party to introduce Elsa, and guests argue over the Anschluss (the Nazi German annexation of Austria).The same year, a Spanish language translation opened at Teatro de la Universidad in San Juan, under the direction of Edgar García. The original Broadway production, starring Mary Martin and Theodore Bikel, opened in 1959 [1] and won five Tony Awards, including Best Musical, out of nine nominations. The von Trapps spent some years in Austria after Maria and the Captain married and he was offered a commission in Germany's navy. The Sound of Music was the last musical written by Rodgers and Hammerstein, as Oscar Hammerstein died of stomach cancer nine months after the Broadway premiere.

Sound of Music: 50th Anniversary Edition (Blu-ray) The Sound of Music: 50th Anniversary Edition (Blu-ray)

It also featured Patti Cohenour as Mother Abbess, Jan Maxwell as Elsa Schrader, Fred Applegate as Max Detweiler, Dashiell Eaves as Rolf, Patricia Conolly as Frau Schmidt and Laura Benanti, in her Broadway debut, as Luker's understudy. Other awards included Martin for Best Actress in a Musical, Neway for Best Featured Actress, Best Scenic Design ( Oliver Smith) and Best Conductor And Musical Director (Frederick Dvonch).To make the story more dramatic, Lindsay and Crouse had the family, soon after Maria's and the Captain's wedding, escape over the mountains to Switzerland on foot. The cast included June Bronhill as Maria, Peter Graves as Captain von Trapp and Rosina Raisbeck as Mother Abbess. So when the Mother Superior sends her to function as the governess to some children in the hills, she looks forward to the change of environment. The New York Journal American 's review opined that The Sound of Music is "the most mature product of the team . Elsa asks the Captain to allow the children to say goodnight to the guests with a song, "So Long, Farewell".

Also a handy feature is a bookmark in which you can mark to a spot in the movie and come back to it at a later time. Summer Strallen replaced Fisher in February 2008, [22] with Mulholland portraying Maria on Monday evenings and Wednesday matinees. There’s no need to re-invent the wheel here, this is the same disc that was found in the 45th Anniversary edition and The Sound of Music looks about as majestic as I’d envisioned. Audio Commentaries– There are two audio commentaries, the first with director Robert Wise as he gives us all the in-depth knowledge that went along with the production of the film. An Australian revival played in the Lyric Theatre, Sydney, New South Wales, from November 1999 to February 2000.RCA Victor also released an album of the 1998 Broadway revival produced by Hallmark Entertainment and featuring the full revival cast, including Rebecca Luker, Michael Siberry, Jan Maxwell and Fred Applegate. As a point of reference I took Disc 3 (the standard DVD) out and watched a few scenes for comparison and let me tell you – there isn’t much of one. Playing to 101 percent of seating capacity, the show set the highest attendance figure for a single week (October 26–31, 1981) of any British musical production in history (as recorded in The Guinness Book of Theatre). In this movie Wise captures the musical portions of the picture very well and really boosts the impact of the impressive choreography and dancers involved.