East Kilbride Light Opera Club - The Sound Of Music

The Sound Of Music - 2000

Index

History

The Cast

The Story of "The Sound Of Music"

cover of programme

The Sound of Music is a family musical not only by reason of its homely appeal, but because it is a real family with emphasis on the children - they being the five daughters and two sons of Captain Georg von Trapp, a widower.
Maria is sent to fill the post of governess to the family by the Mother Abbess after the Sisters, Berthe, Margaretta and Sophia voice their doubts as to her suitability for the religious life. She is more than a little apprehensive prior to her first contact with the Captain and his family and even more so after meeting them. However, Maria's charm and love of singing soon win over the children and after a time the Captain. Indeed the Captain's attitude to the children undergoes quite a change and to some extent his feelings towards Maria - a fact which does not pass unnoticed by Elsa with whom the Captain believes himself in love. The success of the children's singing at the party encourages Max to try to persuade the Captain to let them take part in the Folk Festival but the Captain will not give his permission. Brigitta accuses Maria of being in love with her father. Maria decides to return to the Abbey. Her departure affects the children badly - but the Mother Abbess prevails upon Maria to return to the family. Harmony is restored, but Elsa, realising it would be a mistake to insist upon marrying the Captain, bids farewell and the Captain asks Maria to marry him. After the wedding and the return from the honeymoon the Anschluss has taken place and the Nazi influence really begins to affect the family. In order to escape from an unacceptable situation the Captain agrees to the family taking part in the Festival. Their appearance there leads to their escape to freedom aided and abetted by the Mother Abbess and the nuns.

The Sound Of Music - History of the Show

The Sound of Music was the last of the five great musicals by the partnership of Oscar Hammerstein and Richard Rogers. The musical is based on the true story of the Trapp Family Singers who escaped the German occupation of their home country Austria. The award winning musical opened at the Lunt-Fontaine theatre in New York in November, 1959, where it ran for almost fout years, toured for three years and established new records in London with an outstanding five and a half year's run at the Palace Theatre. There ewas to be a further triumph ahead, one which Oscar hammerstein would never see - he died four months after the Broadway opening - it was, of course the 1965 film version starring Julie Andrews as Maria and Christopher Plummer as Captain von Trapp. The Oscar winning move is without doubt the most successful celluloid version of any stage musical. The enormous success of the film stopped any new professional production of the show for almost 20 years, however only last year a lavish new presentation was staged, to much acclaim, on Broadway. So popular is the film and so well known are the songs that a "Sing-a-long" version version has been enjoying amazing success in London and more recently in Edinburgh where audiences are strongly encouraged to don a wimple or anything creative made of old curtains. East Kilbride Light Opera Club first presented the show in 1978 when Nan Tait was our Maria and Len Johnson was our Captain von Trapp.

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The Sound Of Music - 2000
by arrangement with Josef Weinberger Ltd

Production Team
Director - Billy Love
Musical Director - Cameron Merriweather

Cast
Maria Rainer - Kate McGhee
The Mother Abbess - Elaine Anderson
Sister Berthe - Mistress of Novices - Carol Edison
Sister Margaretta - Mistress of Postulants - Eileen Montgomery
Sister Sophia - Anneliese Gannon
Captain Georg Von Trapp - Peter Nevans
Franz - the butler - Ken Lawton
Frau Schmidt - the housekeeper - Rona McGregor
Children of Captain Von Trapp
Liesl - Vickie Goldie
Friedrich - Lloyd McKenzie - Craig Muir
Louisa - Laura Knox - Leila Sami
Brigitta - Emma Knox - Jennifer Mains
Kurt - Alistair Leckenby -Sean Maguire
Marta - Charlotte Forbes Brianna Rodger
Gretl - Harley Slaven - Caitlin Gillespie
Rolf Gruber - Iain Wilson
Elsa Schrader - Pauline Moscardini
Ursula - Elizabeth Porter
Max Detweiler - Denis Hannigan
Herr Zeller - The Gauleiter - Craig Lundie
Frau Zeller - Ann Rodger
Baron Elberfeld - Bill Ginn
Baroness Elberfeld - Patricia Bovill
A postuland - Allison Bennie
Admiral von Schreiber - Peter King

Ladies of the Chorus
Morag Arthur, Allison Bennie, Patricia Bovill, Alyson Cassells, Jacqueline Chapman, Jean Cook, Sandra Crawford, Hazel Hampson, Wendy Hayes, Dianne House Pamela Knox, Cathy McBean, Maureen McDermott, Christine McIntyre, Margo McTaggart, Carol Meldrum, Linsey Meldrum, Ann Rodger, Elizabeth Porter, Ann Shields, Angela Williamson

Gentlemen of the Chorus
Bruce Arthur, Robbie Crawford, Bill Ginn, Alan Orr, Walter Thomson, Bill Struthers

East Kilbride Light Opera Club Committee
Hon. President - Hugh C. Gray
Hon. Vice-President - W.Gordon McNay, OBE
President - Ann Struthers
Vice-President - Bruce Arthur
Secretary - Pauline Moscardini
Treasurer - Elizabeth Struthers
Committee
Robbie Crawford, Jack Tait, Ken Lawton, Morag Arthur, Peter King, Hazel Hampson

Synopsis of Scenes and Music

Act I
Scene1 - Nonberg Abbey
Preludium - Nuns
Scene2 - A mountainside near the Abbey
The Sound of Music - Maria
Scene3 - The office of the Mother Abbess, the next morning
Maria - Sisters Bertha, Sophia, Margaretta and Mother Abbess
My Favourite Things - Maria and Mother Abbess
Scene4 - A cloister in the Abbey
Scene5 - Outside the Von Trapp villa
I Have Confidence - Maria
Scene6 - The hall of the Von Trapp Villa, that afternoon
Scene7 - Outside the villa, that evening
Sixteen going on Seventeen - Rolf and Liesl
Scene8 - Maria's bedroom, later that evening
Do-Re-Mi - Maria
Lonely GoatherdMaria
Scene9 - The terrace of the villa, one week later
How can Love Survive - Elsa, Max and Captain von Trapp
Scene10 - A corridor in the villa, one week later
Reprise - "The Sound of Music" - The Children and Captain von Trapp
Scene11 - The hall of the villa, the same evening
So long, Farewell - The Children
Scene12 - A cloister in the Abbey
Scene13 - The office of the Mother Abbess, three days later
Climb Every Mountain - Mother Abbess

Act II
Scene1 - The terrace, the same day
Reprise - "Lonely Goatherd"
Reprise - "My Favourite Things" - The Children and Maria
No Way to Stop It - Max, Elsa and Captain
Reprise - "Sixteen going on Seventeen" - Maria and Liesl
Something Good - Maria and Captain
Scene2 - A cloister in the Abbey, two days later
Scene3 - A room in the Abbey
Scene4 - A cloister in the Abbey
Scene5 - The Abbey
Processional - Nuns
Scene6 - The hall of the Von Trapp villa, one month later
Scene7 - The Concert Hall Stage, three days later
Reprise - "Do-Re-Mi" - The Family von Trapp
Edelweiss - Captain
Reprise - "So Long, Farewell" - The Family von Trapp
Scene8 - The garden of the Abbey, that night
Reprise - "Climb Every Mountain" - Mother Abbess and Nuns

Stage Manager - William J. Porter
Asst. Stage Manager - Graham McFadyen
Stage Director - Jack Tait
Club Accompanist - Carol Hannigan
Lighting - Carrick McGhie
Property Mistress - Susan Struthers
Wardrobe Mistresses - Margaret McFadyen, Anna McGillivray
Orchestra under the direction of Cameron Merriweather
Prompter - Frances Baird

Performance Details
28th February - 4th March 2000
The Village Theatre,
East Kilbride

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