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Characters
Musical Numbers
General Themes
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Characters
Maria Rainer - a Postulant at Nonnberg Abbey
The Mother Abbess
Sister Berthe - Mistress of Novices
Sister Margaretta - Mistress of Postulants
Sister Sophia
Captain Georg von Trapp
Franz - the butler
Frau Schmidt - the housekeeper
Liesl von Trapp - age 16
Friedrich von Trapp - age 14
Louisa von Trapp - age 13
Kurt von Trapp - age 10
Brigitta von Trapp - age 9
Marta von Trapp - age 7
Gretl von Trapp - the youngest
Rolf Gruber - age 17
Elsa Schraeder
Ursula
Max Detweiler
Herr Zeller
Baron Elberfeld
A New Postulant
Admiral von Schreiber
Neighbors of Captain von Trapp, nuns, novices, postulants, and contestants at the Festival Concert
Act I
- Praeludium - The Nuns
- The Sound of Music - Maria
- How do you solve a problem like Maria? - The Nuns
- My Favorite Things - Maria and the Mother Abbess
- Do-Re-Mi - Maria and the Children
- Sixteen Going On Seventeen - Rolf and Liesl
- The Lonely Goatherd - Maria and the Children
- How Can Love Survive - Max and Elsa
- The Sound of Music (Reprise) - Maria, the Captain and the Children
- Landler
- So Long, Farewell - The Children
- Climb Ev'ry Mountain - Mother Abbess
Act II
- No Way to Stop It - Max, the Captain and Elsa
- An Ordinary Couple - Maria and the Captain†
- Processional - The Nuns
- Sixteen Going On Seventeen (Reprise) - Maria and Liesl
- Do-Re-Mi (Reprise) - Maria, the Captain and the Children‡
- Edelweiss - The Captain, Maria and the Children
- So Long, Farewell (Reprise) - Maria, the Captain and the Children
- Finale - The Nuns
General Themes
Austria. World War II
Love ; first love, loyalty, family, patriotism, ethics.
Links
Links to external websites giving more information on The Sound of Music such as synopsis and history. The Drama Queen's Drawers accepts no responsibilty for the accuracy or content of these websites and you are advised to be aware that you are navigating away from this site by using them.
The Sound of Music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia has lots of pages relating to Oklahoma! with a great deal of information that may be of interest
The Sound of Music (1965) imdb website for information relating to the film version.
The Rogers and Hammerstein organization has a synopsis, songlist, cast and set requirements and lots of production information.
Josef Weinberger for information about performance, rights holders etc.
