| Description | Press and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'The Sound of Music', adapted from 'The Trapp Family Singers' by Maria Augusta Trapp; book by Howard Lindsay and Roger Crouse; lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II; music by Richard Rodgers; with photographs of members of the cast and cast lists; includes magazine extract photographs of cast members in scenes from the musical
Performed at The Palace Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London, 18 May 1961; presented by Williamson Music Ltd; directed by Jerome Whyte; scenic production by Oliver Smith, costumes by Lucinda Ballard; orchestrations by Russell Bennett; choral arrangements by Trude Rittman
America: The Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, New York, 16 Nov 1959; directed by Vincent J. Donehue; musical numbers staged by Loe Layton
Casts: Jean Bayless, Silvia Beamish, Olive Gilbert, Constance Shacklock, Lynn Kennington, Roger Dann, Jay Denyer, Diana Beaumont, Barbara Brown, John Coxall, Janet Ware, John Bosch, Susan Whitnell, Ann Dyer, Melanie Parr, Nicholas Bennett, Eunice Gayson, Betty Wood, Harold Kasket, Peter Swanick, Jack Lorenzo, Marilyn Dougan, Hilary Wontner, Irene Cole, May Cunningham, Marie Fidock, Elaine Howells, Patricia Kilgarriff, Joan Lilley, Marie Lorraine, Alison McGuire, Georgina Pearce, Sonia Peters, Patricia Ridgway, Tina Ruta, Lita Tovey, Betty Wood, Christina Wren, Diane Cane, Mary Martin, Patricia Neway, Marion Marlowe, Theodore Bikel |