Complete cast set for Pitlochry’s The Sound of Music

Pitlochry Festival Theatre has announced full casting for the return of The Sound of Music, which runs from 14 November to 21 December.

The production earned a glowing review from WhatsOnStage when it was previously mounted in 2024.

The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical will be directed by the theatre’s associate director Sam Hardie, following Elizabeth Newman’s acclaimed 2024 production. As previously confirmed, Kirsty Findlay will reprise her award-winning performance as Maria Rainer, alongside Ali Watt as Captain Georg von Trapp.

Returning to the company are Kate Milner Evans as Mother Abbess, Ellen Lawford as Baroness Elberfeld and Sister Sophia, Lydia Barton Lovett as Sister Margaretta, and Trudy Ward as Frau Schmidt.

New additions to the cast include Miiya Alexandra as Elsa Schraeder and Sister Berthe, Oliver Nazareth Aston as Max Detweiler, Lauren MacDonald as Liesl von Trapp, and Lawrence Smith as Rolf Gruber.

They are joined by Eden Barrie, Ru Hamilton, David Joseph Healy, Gary Mitchinson, Emma Jane Morton, and Alex Terry, who will play a range of supporting and ensemble roles.

The von Trapp children will be played by a rotating young company featuring Rowan Kennedy, Anna Rose Loughran, Rebecca Littlejohn, Isla MacGregor, Ross Martin, Joseph Miranda, Theo Miranda, Molly Morris, Tanvi Reddy, Leva Stewart, Hannah Watt, and Niamh Wishart.

Director Sam Hardie said: “I am thrilled to be working with this brilliant company on the revival of The Sound of Music this year. This beautiful production, packed full of love and hope, moved so many audiences last year and we are so excited to be bringing it back this year with some returning and new company members.”

The musical, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s final collaboration, features the well-known songs “Climb Ev’ry Mountain”, “My Favorite Things”, “Do-Re-Mi”, “Sixteen Going on Seventeen” and “The Sound of Music”. Based on Maria Augusta Trapp’s memoir, it tells the story of a postulant who becomes governess to the von Trapp children, transforming their lives with music before the family is forced to flee Austria during the rise of Nazism.

The Sound of Music plays at Pitlochry Festival Theatre from 14 November to 21 December.