Playing 10 July – 3 September 2023 at Chichester Festival Theatre
Austria, 1938. Free-spirited nun Maria is distributed away from her abbey to turn out to be governess to the widowed Captain von Trapp’s seven kids. She brings music and laughter again to his unfeeling family, however the future holds extra pleasure and jeopardy than she ever dreamed attainable.
The Sound of Music was Rodgers & Hammerstein’s final and maybe most treasured musical, and is now produced at Chichester for the primary time. The superb rating is a field of delights, from Climb Ev’ry Mountain, My Favorite Things and Edelweiss to Do-Re-Mi and The Sound of
Music itself. This brand-new manufacturing of the unique stage musical is directed by Adam Penford, Artistic Director of Nottingham Playhouse, the place his productions embrace Piaf and The Madness of George III; and designed by Robert Jones (Murder on the Orient Express, The Unfriend, Oklahoma!).
Gina Beck, whose efficiency as Nellie Forbush in Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific in 2021 was additionally acclaimed in London and on a UK tour, returns to play Maria.