Town & Country Players Present The Sound of Music

The Sound of Music, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s last collaboration, opens at Town & Country Players on July 15th and runs weekends through August 6th. The Sound of Music opened on Broadway in 1959 and won six Tony’s including Best Musical. The well-loved film adaptation followed in 1965 winning five Academy Awards including Best Picture. Director John Neuman credits the film with spawning his love of theater. He has fond memories of watching the film with his family once or twice a year whenever it aired on television. He was so excited to have the opportunity to direct this special show and put his own touch on the piece. John remarked, “I'm particularly interested in the way the musical deals with the idea of struggling to find one's purpose and the ways in which we sometimes fight against the callings placed on our lives until something makes that calling clear.”

The Sound of Music is based on the memoir of Maria Augusta Trapp, and tells the story of an ebullient postulate who serves as governess to the seven children of the imperious Captain Von Trapp. The show is set in 1938 Austria just before the Nazi occupation of the country. The show is a timeless classic with some of the most well known and loved musical theater songs ever written including, My Favorite Things, Edelweiss, Sixteen Going on Seventeen, Do-Re-Mi, and of course, the title song, The Sound of Music.

The Sound of Music is playing at Town and Country Players located on Route 263 in Buckingham and runs weekends from July 15th to August 6th. Curtain time is 8pm for Friday and Saturday evening shows and 2pm for Saturday and Sunday Matinees. For specific show dates/times and to order tickets, visit www.townandcountryplayers.org or call the Box Office at (215) 348-7566. Tickets are $25.00 for adults and $15 for children/students.