The Sound of Music

Synopsis

The story of the von Trapp family and their escape from Nazi occupation. Made famous by the film starring Julie Andrews and containing such songs as Climb Every Mountain, I am Sixteen, Do a Deer and many more.

Our Review:

Anne Morley-Priestman - 10 August 2011

At the time of its first London production, I remember being disappointed in the staging of The Sound of Music. That’s certainly not the feeling received from Jeremy Sams’ touring production designed by Robert Jones. It’s flexible, fast-moving and puts proper weight on the political background of the story as well as allowing space for all those well-known tunes. Extremely effective results are obtained by deceptively simple means.

This is a show which requires thoroughly trained voices for Richard Rodgers’ score and Marilyn Hill Smith as the Abbess dominated, especially with the show-stopping “Climb every mountain”. Some of the fragile charm of the Liesl (Claire Fishenden) and Rolf (Chris Barton) duet was lost by the actors seeming mire comfortable with Arlene Phillips’ choreography than with Michael England’s assured musical direction for the vocals. Barton does make the postboy’s transformation into a...

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