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Martina von Trapp


Martina von Trapp (17 February 1921 – 25 February 1951) was a member of the Trapp Family Singers and was the seventh child of Georg von Trapp and his first wife, Agatha Whitehead von Trapp. She was a member of the Trapp Family Singers, whose lives were the inspiration for the play and movie "The Sound of Music". She was portrayed as the character "Gretl". Named after the house she was born in, the "Martinsschlössel", Martina von Trapp had brown hair and brown eyes.
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Johannes von Trapp


Johannes von Trapp (born 17 January 1939) is an Austrian American singer and former member of the Trapp Family Singers, whose lives were the inspiration for the musical and movie "The Sound of Music". He is the tenth and youngest child. von Trapp was born in 1939 in Philadelphia while the family was on a concert tour. He was eight years old when his father Georg von Trapp died in 1947. His siblings are Rosmarie (born 1929) and Eleonore (born 1931). He graduated from prep school
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Rupert von Trapp


Rupert Georg von Trapp, M.D. (1 November 1911 – 22 February 1992) was the firstborn child and eldest son of Georg von Trapp and his first wife, Agatha Whitehead von Trapp. He was a member of the Trapp Family Singers, whose lives were the inspiration for the play and film "The Sound of Music". He was portrayed as the character Friedrich. He was born on 1 November 1911. His parents married in January 1911. His father was Georg von Trapp and his mother was Agatha (née Whitehead
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Hedwig von Trapp


Hedwig Maria Adolphine Gobertina von Trapp (28 July 1917 – 14 September 1972) was the fifth child of Georg von Trapp and his first wife, Agatha Whitehead von Trapp. She was a member of the Trapp Family Singers, whose lives were the inspiration for the play and movie "The Sound of Music". She was portrayed as the character "Brigitta". Named after her paternal grandmother, Hedwig von Trapp had brown hair and grey eyes. She grew up in Zell am See during World War I with her siblings
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Johanna von Trapp


Johanna Karolina (Franziska) von Trapp (7 September 1919 – 25 November 1994) was the sixth child of Georg Ritter von Trapp and his first wife, Agathe (née Whitehead). She was a member of the Trapp Family Singers, whose lives were the inspiration for the play and film "The Sound of Music". She was portrayed as the character "Marta". Johanna was born on September 7, 1919 at the "Erlhof" by Zell am See in Austria, as the fourth daughter of Georg and
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The von Trapps


The von Trapps (formerly The von Trapp Children) is a musical group made up of Sofia, Melanie, Amanda and August (formerly Justin) von Trapp, descendants of the Trapp Family Singers. They are the grandchildren of Werner von Trapp, who was portrayed as Kurt in "The Sound of Music", and the great-grandchildren of Georg Ritter von Trapp and his first wife Agathe Whitehead, and the step-great-grandchildren of Maria von Trapp, Georg's second wife. The von Trapp Children began their
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Debbie Turner


Debbie Turner (born September 5, 1956) is an American actress and former child star who played the role of Marta von Trapp in the film "The Sound of Music". Turner was reared in Arcadia, California, where she grew up as the third daughter of Canadian parents. Along with her three siblings, she was active in television and commercials. In 1964 she won the role of Marta Von Trapp in "The Sound of Music". Shortly after the film's debut, she left the film industry and
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years and accompanied them when they left Austria. The character of Friedrich (the second oldest child in the film version) was based on Rupert, the oldest of the real von Trapp children. Liesl (the oldest child in the film) was based on Agathe von Trapp, the second oldest in the real family. The names and ages of the children were changed, in part because the third child (who would be portrayed as "Louisa") was also named Maria, and producers thought that it would be confusing
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Werner von Trapp


, Maria Franziska von Trapp (1914–2014), Hedwig von Trapp (1917–1972), Johanna von Trapp (1919–1994) and Martina von Trapp (1921–1951), father, and stepmother, Maria Augusta von Trapp, Werner comprised the Trapp Family Singers, who inspired the 1959 Broadway musical and the 1965 Academy Award winning Best Picture "The Sound of Music". In the family chorus he sang tenor. Georg and Maria Augusta had three children together: Rosmarie von Trapp (born 1928 or 1929), Eleonore von Trapp (born
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submarine Captain Georg von Trapp. Maria arrives at the villa of Captain von Trapp. He explains her duties and summons the children with a boatswain's call. They march in, clad in uniforms. He teaches her their individual signals on the call, but she openly disapproves of this militaristic approach. Alone with them, she breaks through their wariness and teaches them the basics of music ("Do-Re-Mi"). Rolf, a young messenger, delivers a telegram and then meets with the oldest child,
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Maria Franziska von Trapp


, Salzburg, then part of Austria-Hungary. Her siblings were Rupert von Trapp (1911–1992), Agathe von Trapp (1913–2010), Werner von Trapp (1915–2007), Hedwig von Trapp (1917–1972), Johanna von Trapp (1919–1994), and Martina von Trapp (1921–1951). Along with her six siblings, father, and stepmother, Maria Augusta von Trapp, she was part of the Trapp Family Singers, who inspired the 1959 Broadway musical and the 1965 Academy Award-winning Best Picture "The Sound of
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Werner von Trapp


Werner Ritter von Trapp (21 December 1915 – 11 October 2007) was the second-oldest son of Georg von Trapp and his first wife, Agatha Whitehead von Trapp. He was a member of the Trapp Family Singers, whose lives were the inspiration for the play and movie "The Sound of Music". He was portrayed as the character Kurt. Werner was named for a paternal uncle who was killed during World War I. Along with his six siblings Rupert von Trapp (1911–1992), Agathe von Trapp (1913–2010)
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Agathe von Trapp


Agathe Johanna Erwina Gobertina von Trapp (12 March 1913 – 28 December 2010) was the eldest daughter of Georg von Trapp and his first wife, Agatha Whitehead von Trapp. She was also a member of the Trapp Family Singers, whose lives were the inspiration for the musical play and film "The Sound of Music". She was portrayed as the character "Liesl". Agathe was born on 12 March 1913 in Pola, Istria, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (present-day Pula, Croatia)
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Trapp Family Lodge


The Trapp Family Lodge is a resort located in Stowe, Vermont. It is managed by Sam von Trapp, son of Johannes von Trapp. The Trapp family was largely fictionalized in "The Sound of Music", which was based loosely on "The Story of the Trapp Family Singers" by Maria von Trapp. Baron Georg von Trapp and his wife Maria left Austria shortly after its annexation by Nazi Germany in 1938 and settled with their family in Vermont in 1942. After the Baron's death in 1947, the family expanded
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Maria Franziska von Trapp


, the group met with Ernst Florian Winter, the husband of her sister Johanna (1919–1994). She was the last survivor of the seven original von Trapp children. Three half-siblings, from her father's second marriage, Rosmarie von Trapp (born 1929), Eleonore von Trapp (born 1931), and Johannes von Trapp (born 1939), are still alive, but were not featured in "The Sound of Music". Maria Franziska von Trapp died on Tuesday, 18 February 2014 in Stowe, Vermont
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Maria Franziska von Trapp


Maria Agatha Franziska Gobertina von Trapp (28 September 1914 – 18 February 2014) was the second-oldest daughter of Georg von Trapp and his first wife, Agatha Whitehead von Trapp. She was a member of the Trapp Family Singers, whose lives inspired the musical and film "The Sound of Music". She was portrayed by Heather Menzies as the character "Louisa". She died at age 99, and was the last surviving sibling portrayed in the film. She was born on 28 September 1914 in Zell am See
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Hede von Trapp


Hede von Trapp (November 18, 1877 – December 29, 1947) was an Austrian poet, painter and graphic designer of the Art Nouveau movement. von Trapp was born in Pula, Austria-Hungary on November 18, 1877. She was the daughter of the August von Trapp, who only a year earlier (1876) had been raised to Austrian knighthood. Her younger brother was the U-boat commander Georg Ritter von Trapp (1880–1947), father of the Trapp singing family portrayed in "The Sound of Music
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Kym Karath


, Karath was seen in "The Thrill of It All" with Doris Day and James Garner. In 1964, she was seen in "Good Neighbor Sam" with Jack Lemmon. Kym is best remembered for her role in "The Sound of Music", where she played the youngest child, Gretl Von Trapp. During her appearance on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show", Julie Andrews was asked about working with the Von Trapp children. She replied, "They were all lovely. However, the youngest one (Karath
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The Sound of Music Live!


"The Story of the Trapp Family Singers" by Maria von Trapp. On June 30, 2012, NBC's chairman Bob Greenblatt announced the network's plans to broadcast a live adaptation of the Broadway musical "The Sound of Music" in 2013. On November 30, 2012, the network announced that country music and fourth season of "American Idol", winner performer Carrie Underwood would star as Maria von Trapp in the production. In a statement, Greenblatt justified Underwood's involvement, saying that "[Maria] was
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Kerstin Anderson


the tour finished, while continuing her career. The national tour began in September 2015. Anderson saw the 1965 film version of "The Sound of Music" as a child on VHS tape. She recalled visiting Stowe, Vermont as a child, where the real Maria Von Trapp and her family settled in the U.S. and built the Trapp Family Lodge. Reviews of Anderson's performances as Maria were strongly positive. Jordan Riefe of "The Hollywood Reporter" wrote, "Her crisp, clear soprano voice isn’t the strongest in
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to acting by playing the role of Friedrich, the eldest male von Trapp child in a school production of "The Sound of Music" at Cleveland High School. He graduated from Tupelo High School, where he again played Friedrich von Trapp. Dye found himself bitten by the acting bug. After graduating, he enrolled at Mississippi State University in hopes of becoming a civil rights lawyer. After a year at Mississippi State University, he decided to become an actor, and was advised against it by his great-grandmother. He
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Maria von Trapp


Baroness Maria Augusta von Trapp DHS ("née" Kutschera; 26 January 1905 – 28 March 1987) was the stepmother and matriarch of the Trapp Family Singers. She wrote "The Story of the Trapp Family Singers", which was published in 1949 and was the inspiration for the 1956 West German film "The Trapp Family", which in turn inspired the Broadway musical "The Sound of Music" (1959) and its 1965 film version. Maria was born on 26 January 1905 to Augusta (Rainer) and Karl
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start as two nuns have removed parts of the engines. The next morning, after driving to the Swiss border, the von Trapp family make their way on foot across the Swiss Alps into Switzerland. "The Sound of Music" story is based on Maria von Trapp's memoir, "The Story of the Trapp Family Singers", published in 1949 to help promote her family's singing group following the death of her husband Georg in 1947. Hollywood producers expressed interest in purchasing the title only, but Maria refused, wanting
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Edelweiss (song)


"Edelweiss" is a show tune from the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "The Sound of Music". It is named after the edelweiss, a white flower found high in the Alps "(Leontopodium alpinum)". The song was created for the 1959 Broadway production of "The Sound of Music", as a song for the character Captain Georg von Trapp (originated by the performer Theodore Bikel). In the musical, Captain von Trapp and his family sing this song during the concert near the end of Act
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Rodgers and Hammerstein, starring Mary Martin and Theodore Bikel. It was a success, running for more than three years. The musical was adapted in 1965 as a motion picture of the same name, starring Julie Andrews. The film version set US box office records, and Maria von Trapp received about $500,000 ($ today) in royalties. Maria von Trapp made a cameo appearance in the movie version of "The Sound of Music" (1965). For an instant, she, her daughter Rosmarie, and Werner
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Chris Colfer


let him sing the song in her church. The first show in which he was involved with community theater was "West Side Story". He also appeared in a production of "The Sound of Music" as the character Kurt von Trapp, the musical protagonist Maria von Trapp's stepson. Colfer's resemblance to the Kurt von Trapp character later served as inspiration for the name of his "Glee" character. At the age of 18, Colfer starred as Russel Fish in "", a short film where an awkward
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Trapp Family Story


It was based on the memoir "The Story of the Trapp Family Singers" by Maria von Trapp, which has also inspired the world-famous musical "The Sound of Music". While many things were changed from the original story, unlike other adaptations such as "The Sound of Music", the children's names are all correct in this version. The opening theme differed depending on the broadcasting. The series first used "Doremi no Uta (Doremi Song)" as the intro theme during earlier broadcasting, however
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Tom Santopietro


("The Importance of Being Barbra"), and the definitive account of Frank Sinatra's Hollywood film career ("Sinatra in Hollywood"). Santopietro's latest book, "The Sound of Music Story: How A Beguiling Young Novice, A Handsome Austrian Captain, and Ten Singing Von Trapp Children Inspired the Most Beloved Film of All Time", is a behind-the-scenes chronicle of the filming of The Sound of Music in Austria and Hollywood. It reviews the real life story of Maria von Trapp,
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Maria von Trapp


March 1987 at 82 in Morrisville, Vermont, three days following surgery. She is interred in the family cemetery at the lodge, along with her husband and five of her step-children. The family has won the following awards: Maria von Trapp's book, "The Story of the Trapp Family Singers", published in 1949, was a best-seller. It was made into two successful German / Austrian films: The book was then adapted into "The Sound of Music", a 1959 Broadway musical by
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The von Trapps


singing career after performing in the play "The Sound of Music" in 1997. Since then they have been touring in the United States and other countries. They frequently perform with the band Pink Martini and their collaboration album Dream a Little Dream was released in March 2014. The von Trapp Children have appeared on "The Oprah Winfrey Show", "The View", "Jack Hanna's Into the Wild", "The Today Show", and "19 Kids and Counting". In 2016 The von Trapps announced
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Ariane Rinehart


Ariane Rinehart (born April 13, 1994) is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her performance in "The Sound of Music Live!" as the eldest von Trapp daughter, Liesl, which was described by critics as the standout performance in the production. When she was 10 years old, Rinehart starred as Marta, the second youngest Von Trapp, in a professional production in the Sound of Music in St. Louis, where she was born. This was a precursor to her second role in The
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Georg von Trapp


Baron Georg Johannes Ludwig Ritter von Trapp (4 April 1880 – 30 May 1947) was an Austro-Hungarian Navy officer and the patriarch of the Trapp Family Singers, whose lives were the inspiration for the play and movie "The Sound of Music". His naval exploits during World War I earned him numerous decorations, including the prestigious Military Order of Maria Theresa. Under his command, the submarines and sank 13 Allied ships totaling about . Following Austria-Hungary's collapse after the war, von Trapp returned to his family
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Georg von Trapp


Stowe, Vermont. The Captain has been portrayed in various adaptations of his family's life such as "The Sound of Music," both the 1965 film and the Broadway musical, as well as two German films, "The Trapp Family" (1956) and "The Trapp Family in America" (1958). However, these adaptations often altered the portrayal of the Captain. In real life and in the memoir "The Story of the Trapp Family Singers", written by his second wife Maria Augusta Trapp,
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Re-Mi", Max brings out the Captain's guitar. Captain von Trapp sings "Edelweiss", as a goodbye to his homeland, while using Austria's national flower as a symbol to declare his loyalty to the country. Max asks for an encore and announces that this is the von Trapp family's last chance to sing together, as the honor guard waits to escort the Captain to his new command. While the judges decide on the prizes, the von Trapps sing "So Long, Farewell", leaving
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Georg von Trapp


Nereide" sunk, and one cargo vessel captured. The end of World War I saw the defeat and collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In the process, Austria was reduced in size to its land-locked German-speaking heartlands, thus losing its sea-coasts, and had no further need for a navy, leaving von Trapp without a vocation or employment. On leaving Austria the von Trapps traveled to Italy, not Switzerland, as depicted in "The Sound of Music". Georg was born in Zadar
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Georg von Trapp


Nazi ideology. He fled with his family to Italy and later to the United States, where he set up a farm and lived until his death in 1947. Maria wrote of their time together in her memoir "The Story of the Trapp Family Singers", which was the inspiration for Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway stage musical "The Sound of Music" in 1959. Georg Johannes Ludwig Ritter von Trapp was born in Zara, Dalmatia, then a Crown Land of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (present-day Zadar,
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The Sound of Music


The Sound of Music is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, and a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. It is based on the memoir of Maria von Trapp, "The Story of the Trapp Family Singers". Set in Austria on the eve of the "Anschluss" in 1938, the musical tells the story of Maria, who takes a job as governess to a large family while she decides whether to become a nun. She falls in love with the children, and
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The Sound of Music (film)


The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical drama film produced and directed by Robert Wise, and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, with Richard Haydn and Eleanor Parker. The film is an adaptation of the 1959 stage musical of the same name, composed by Richard Rodgers with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. The film's screenplay was written by Ernest Lehman, adapted from the stage musical's book by Lindsay and Crouse. Based on the memoir "The Story of the Trapp Family Singers" by Maria von Trapp, the
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. A 1990 New York City Opera production, directed by Oscar Hammerstein II's son, James, featured Debby Boone as Maria, Laurence Guittard as Captain von Trapp, and Werner Klemperer as Max. In the 1993 Stockholm production, Carola Häggkvist played Maria and Tommy Körberg played Captain von Trapp. An Australian revival played in the Lyric Theatre, Sydney, New South Wales, from November 1999 to February 2000. Lisa McCune played Maria, John Waters was Captain von Trapp, Bert Newton was Max, Eilene Hannan was Mother Abbess
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The Sound of Music


soon agreed that the project should feature all new songs and be a musical rather than a play. Details of the history of the von Trapp family were altered for the musical. The real Georg von Trapp did live with his family in a villa in Aigen, a suburb of Salzburg. He wrote to the Nonnberg Abbey in 1926 asking for a nun to help tutor his sick daughter, and the Mother Abbess sent Maria. His wife had died in 1922. The real Maria and Georg married at the Nonnberg Abbey in 1927
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Elisabeth von Trapp


Elisabeth von Trapp (born 1955) is a folk singer. Elisabeth von Trapp is the granddaughter of Georg and Agatha von Trapp and the daughter of Werner von Trapp. The Trapp Family Singers, which Maria and Georg founded in Austria and brought with them to the United States when they escaped Austria in 1938, included Elisabeth's father, Werner von Trapp. The Family Singers disbanded in 1957, but Trapp grew up with her father's guitar playing and singing, and around the musical family's home, the Trapp Family Lodge
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Pablo Cabrera in 1966. It starred Camille Carrión as María and Raúl Dávila as Captain Von Trapp, and it featured a young Johanna Rosaly as Liesl. In 1968, the production transferred to the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid, Spain, where it was performed in Spanish with Carrión reprising the role of María, Alfredo Mayo as Captain Von Trapp and Roberto Rey as Max. In 1988, the Moon Troupe of Takarazuka Revue performed the musical at the Bow Hall (Takarazuka, Hyōgo). Harukaze Hitomi and Gou Mayuka starred
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No Way to Stop It


"No Way to Stop It" is a show tune from the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "The Sound of Music", but not included in the later film version from 1965. The song features the characters Max Detweiler and Baroness Elsa Schräder, with Captain Georg von Trapp joining in later. It was first performed by Marion Marlowe, Kurt Kasznar and Theodore Bikel. Captain von Trapp anticipates the German annexation of Austria, and argues with Elsa and Max about how to respond to the Nazis, who have begun to overrun
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So Long, Farewell


"So Long, Farewell" is a song from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s 1959 musical, "The Sound of Music". It was included in the original Broadway run and was first performed by the Von Trapp children, Kathy Dunn, David Gress, Evanna Lien, Mary Susan Locke, Lauri Peters, Marilyn Rogers, Joseph Stewart, and Frances Underhill. "So Long, Farewell", along with "Do-Re-Mi", are the only songs to predominantly feature the Von Trapp children. They first perform
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production of the musical aired twice in December 2013 on NBC. It was directed by Beth McCarthy-Miller and Rob Ashford. Carrie Underwood starred as Maria Rainer, with Stephen Moyer as Captain von Trapp, Christian Borle as Max, Laura Benanti as Elsa, and Audra McDonald as the Mother Abbess. The production was released on DVD the same month. British network ITV presented a live version of its own on December 20, 2015. It starred Kara Tointon as Maria, Julian Ovenden as Captain von Trapp, Katherine Kelly as
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to have two characters called Maria in the film. The von Trapp family had no control over how they were depicted in the film and stage musical, having given up the rights to their story to a German producer in the 1950s who then sold the rights to American producers. Robert Wise met with Maria von Trapp and made it clear, according to a memo to Richard Zanuck, that he was not making a "documentary or realistic movie" about her family, and that he would make the film with "complete dramatic
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Kurt Hummel


show. Kurt's name is inspired by the character Kurt von Trapp from "The Sound of Music", a role that Colfer once played as a child. The Hummel surname comes from the popular German Hummel figurines; Colfer explained in an interview that Murphy thought he had their rosy-cheeked complexion. Murphy praised Colfer's abilities despite his lack of formal training, saying, "I just thought he was so talented and gifted and unusual. I've never seen anyone who looks like him or acts like him or sounds
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Crystal Day


Spain to China. “It completely changed my life, in the best way possible. My eyes were open to a world much bigger than I ever imagined.” Day started in the theater at the age of six. Her largest adolescent role came when she was eight when she starred as Marta Von Trapp (second youngest child) in the popular musical, The Sound of Music. The production was performed eight times a week. In addition, she was a part of the theater production of Tobacco Road, performing alongside
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Josie Griffiths


Josephine "Josie" Griffiths is a British child actress. She is most known for playing Matilda Wormwood in the Stratford production of "Matilda the Musical" she shared the role with two other young actresses Adrianna Bertola and Kerry Ingram. However, due to her height she was unable to transfer to the West End production. Griffiths has previously played Jemima Potts in a tour of "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" and Marta von Trapp in "The Sound of Music". She lives in Dulwich and attends the James Allen's Girls
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The Sound of Music


consults Maria and decides that they must secretly flee Austria. German Admiral von Schreiber arrives to find out why Captain von Trapp has not answered the telegram. He explains that the German Navy holds him in high regard, offers him the commission, and tells him to report immediately to Bremerhaven to assume command. Maria says that he cannot leave immediately, as they are all singing in the Festival concert; and the Admiral agrees to wait. At the concert, after the von Trapps sing an elaborate reprise of "Do-
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Menchu Lauchengco-Yulo


auditioning for Repertory Philippines in a production of "The King and I" with her brother, Raymond Lauchengco. Being too old to be child but too young to be a wife, she did not get in. Her next audition was in 1978 for "Fiddler on the Roof", where she was part of the chorus. In 1980, she auditioned for the role of Luisa, the 2nd daughter of Captain Von Trapp in "The Sound of Music". However, the directors had a different part for her in
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Wales. His sister, the Honourable Marian Cecilia Brodrick, married Sir James Whitehead, son of the inventor Robert Whitehead. Sir James Whitehead was to become the British Ambassador to Austria, and his niece Agathe was the first wife of Georg Johannes von Trapp; the story of their children and his second wife, Maria von Trapp, was the basis of the musical "The Sound of Music". Another sister, Albinia, became an early supporter of Sinn Féin and became well known in Ireland under the name Gobnait Ní Bhruadair
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The Story of the Trapp Family Singers


The Story of the Trapp Family Singers is a memoir written by Maria Augusta von Trapp, whose life was later fictionalized in Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway musical "The Sound of Music" in 1959. Maria never intended to write anything of her life. However, a friend persistently pleaded with her not to allow her story to be forgotten by others. Though she denied she had any writing skill whatsoever, her friend was not to be put off and kept on asking her whenever they saw each other. Finally, one day
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Dream a Little Dream (Pink Martini and the von Trapps album)


Dream a Little Dream is a collaborative studio album by Pink Martini and the von Trapps, released by Heinz Records on March 4, 2014. Members of the von Trapps, a Portland-based group of descendants of the von Trapp family, include Sofia, Melanie, Amanda and August von Trapp. The album features guests Charmian Carr, Jack Hanna, The Chieftains and Wayne Newton. Three of the songs were written by August von Trapp. In 2014 it was awarded a silver certification from the Independent Music Companies Association, which
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Stephanie Davis (actress)


a child actress. She secured the role of Gretl von Trapp in the Liverpool Empire Theatre's production of "The Sound of Music" when she was eight years old. Two years later, she played the title role in the theatre's production of "Annie" and later as Little Nell in "Her Benny". Davis appeared in a number of minor television roles, including appearances in "Holby City", "Doctors" and "Parents of the Band". In 2010, Davis took part in "Over
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Lisa McCune


, Nikki Webster, Rachel Marley and later Rob Guest in a stage version of "The Sound of Music", as Maria von Trapp. In 2001, while she was pregnant with her first child, her portrait by Shaun Clark was entered in the Archibald Prize. She was off screens for a year to be a stay-at-home mother. In 2002, her next project was a "comeback" role in the television series "Marshall Law" with Alison Whyte and former "Blue Heelers" cast member William
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. Lindsay and Crouse altered the story so that Maria was governess to all of the children, whose names and ages were changed, as was Maria's original surname (the show used "Rainer" instead of "Kutschera"). The von Trapps spent some years in Austria after Maria and the Captain married and was offered a commission in Germany's navy. Since von Trapp opposed the Nazis by that time, the family left Austria after the "Anschluss", going by train to Italy and then traveling on to London
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and Rachel Marley was Marta. This production was based on the 1998 Broadway revival staging. The production then toured until February 2001, in Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide. Rachael Beck took over as Maria in Perth and Adelaide, and Rob Guest took over as Captain von Trapp in Perth. An Austrian production premiered in 2005 at the Volksoper Wien in German. It was directed and choreographed by Renaud Doucet. The cast included Sandra Pires as Maria, Kurt Schreibmayer and Michael Kraus as von Trapp, with Heidi Brunner as
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The Sound of Music Live!


n’t possibly leave right away. They are granted permission to perform. During the finale, Max announces that a guard of honor is waiting to escort the captain away as soon as the concert is over. Maria leads the family in one more song to which they escape to one by one and flee to the Abbey. The Nazi soldiers search the Abbey for the von Trapps to no avail, as the family decides to flee Austria over the mountains with Maria's help. Benanti had previously portrayed Maria von Trapp on Broadway in
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Rodgers and Hammerstein


The 1961 film adaptation was a lavish, but much criticized, Ross Hunter production released by Universal Studios. A Broadway revival in 2002 starring Lea Salonga had a rewritten plot by playwright David Henry Hwang but retained the inter-generational and immigrant themes as well as most of the original songs. "The Sound of Music", Rodgers and Hammerstein's last work together, is based on the story of the Von Trapp Family. Starring Mary Martin as Maria and Theodore Bikel as Captain von Trapp, it opened on Broadway at the
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Schloss Leopoldskron


The Sound of Music", directed by Robert Wise and starring Julie Andrews, was produced in Salzburg with the grounds adjacent to those of Schloss Leopoldskron as one of the main exterior locations. In fact, 10 outdoor scenes were filmed there portraying the von Trapp home. The interior palace was never used as the Von Trapp villa. Scenes were actually filmed on an adjacent property (known as "Bertelsmann", at the time), including the family drinking pink lemonade ("not too sweet, not too sour, just
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The Sound of Music (film)


family they must leave Austria immediately for Switzerland. Many of the Von Trapps' friends are prepared to accept the new regime, including Rolfe, who has joined the Hitler Youth. That night, as the von Trapp family attempt to leave, they are stopped by a group of Brownshirts waiting outside the villa. When questioned by "Gauleiter" Hans Zeller, the Captain maintains they are headed to the Salzburg Festival to perform. Zeller insists on escorting them to the festival, after which his men will accompany the Captain to Bremerhaven
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Sophie Bould


. It’s a strange but lovely feeling". Bould graduated with a first class degree from Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, having earlier attended the National Youth Theatre. Her television appearances include "Doctors", "The Inspector Lynley Mysteries" and "Holby City". Bould appeared in the West End at the London Palladium in the original Andrew Lloyd Webber production of "The Sound of Music", alongside Connie Fisher. Bould played the eldest child of the Von Trapp family, "Liesl". She was also the
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Angela Cartwright


Angela Margaret Cartwright (born September 9, 1952) is an English-born American actress primarily known for her roles in movies and television. Cartwright became known in movies as a child actress for her role as Brigitta von Trapp in the film "The Sound of Music" (1965). On television, she played Linda Williams, the stepdaughter of Danny Williams (played by Danny Thomas) in the 1950s TV series "The Danny Thomas Show", and Penny Robinson, in the 1960s television series "Lost in Space
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Mary Martin


Mary Virginia Martin (December 1, 1913 – November 3, 1990) was an American actress, singer, and Broadway star. A muse of Rodgers and Hammerstein's, she originated many leading roles over her career including Nellie Forbush in "South Pacific" (1949) and Maria von Trapp in "The Sound of Music" (1959). She was named a Kennedy Center Honoree in 1989. She was the mother of actor Larry Hagman. Martin was born in Weatherford, Texas. Her life as a child,
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the stage in small groups. Max then announces the runners-up, stalling as much as possible. When he announces that the first prize goes to the von Trapps and they do not appear, the Nazis start a search. The family hides at the Abbey, and Sister Margaretta tells them that the borders have been closed. Rolf comes upon them and calls his lieutenant, but after seeing Liesl he changes his mind and tells him they aren't there. The Nazis leave, and the von Trapps flee over the Alps
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. The cast included Jean Bayless as Maria, followed by Sonia Rees, Roger Dann as Captain von Trapp, Constance Shacklock as Mother Abbess, Eunice Gayson as Elsa Schrader, Harold Kasket as Max Detweiler, Barbara Brown as Liesl, Nicholas Bennett as Rolf and Olive Gilbert as Sister Margaretta. In 1981, at producer Ross Taylor's urging, Petula Clark agreed to star in a revival of the show at the Apollo Victoria Theatre in London's West End. Michael Jayston played Captain von Trapp, Honor Blackman was the Baroness and
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as Captain von Trapp. It also featured Patti Cohenour as Mother Abbess, Jan Maxwell as Elsa Schrader, Fred Applegate as Max Detweiler, Dashiell Eaves as Rolf, Patricia Conolly as Frau Schmidt and Laura Benanti, in her Broadway debut, as Luker's understudy. Later, Luker and Siberry were replaced by Richard Chamberlain as the Captain and Benanti as Maria. Lou Taylor Pucci made his Broadway debut as the understudy for Kurt von Trapp. The production opened on March 12, 1998, at the Martin Beck Theatre, and closed
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de Tenerife in the Canary Islands. The tour visited 29 Spanish cities, spending one year in Madrid's Gran Vía at the Teatro Coliseum, and one season at the Tívoli Theatre in Barcelona. It was directed by Jaime Azpilicueta and starred Silvia Luchetti as Maria and Carlos J. Benito as Captain Von Trapp. A production was mounted at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park from July to September 2013. It starred Charlotte Wakefield as Maria, with Michael Xavier as Captain von Trapp and Caroline Keiff as Elsa. It received enthusiastic
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Rachel Marley


The Sound of Music" as Marta von Trapp. She was one of 500 applicants who auditioned to play one of the von Trapp children. From 1999 to 2000 Marley appeared alongside Lisa McCune, John Waters and Bert Newton. Marley contributed to the Australian cast recording, which was recorded live on 23 and 24 November 1999. Marley won the leading role of Annie, in the Australian production of "Annie", which premiered in December 2000. She told Jane Albert of "The Australian" that she was prepared to dye
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governess for the von Trapp children. Before she leaves the Abbey, Mother Abbess asks her to teach her the song that she's always singing ("My Favorite Things"). When Maria arrives at the von Trapp house, she is greeted coldly by the Captain and introduced to the children, who enter with military precision. Maria finds that the Captain has emotionally closed himself off since the death of his wife and decides to teach his children the basics of singing to gain their trust and acceptance. A month, later
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smart" to avoid whippings. Spacey attended Northridge Military Academy, Canoga Park High School in the 10th and 11th grades. He graduated co-valedictorian (along with Mare Winningham) of the class of 1977 of Chatsworth High School in Chatsworth, California. At Chatsworth, Spacey starred in the school's senior production of "The Sound of Music", playing the part of Captain Georg von Trapp, with Winningham as Maria von Trapp. He started using his middle name "Spacey", which is also his paternal grandmother's
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Petula Clark


that she returned to legitimate theatre, starring as Maria von Trapp in "The Sound of Music" in London's West End. Opening to positive reviews and what was then the largest advance sale in British theatre history, Clark—proclaimed by Maria Von Trapp herself as "the best Maria ever"—extended her initial six-month run to 13 to accommodate the huge demand for tickets. In 1983, she took on the title role in George Bernard Shaw's "Candida". Later stage work includes "Someone Like You" in
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Maria Franziska von Trapp


Music". Von Trapp sang second soprano in the choir, together with her sister Martina von Trapp. The family fled Austria after the German annexation of Austria, fearing reprisals resulting from declining to sing at Hitler's birthday party and Georg von Trapp's refusal to accept a commission in Nazi Germany's "Kriegsmarine". They emigrated to the United States in 1938, settled in Vermont in 1942, and performed throughout the country. Baron von Trapp died in 1947. Maria Franziska became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1948 and lived
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Sandro Acerbo


Sandro Acerbo (born Alessandro Ancidoni; September 5, 1955) is an Italian voice actor. Born in Rome, Acerbo began his dubbing career as a child. Among his most earliest roles include Michael Banks (portrayed by Matthew Garber) in the 1964 film "Mary Poppins". He also served as the Italian voice of Patch in "One Hundred and One Dalmatians", Hathi Jr. in "The Jungle Book" and Kurt Von Trapp in "The Sound of Music". Even as an adult, Acerbo continued dubbing
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Ran Danker


a gay man who is determined to fulfil his dream of adopting a child. The series received its world premiere at the first ever Canneseries festival. "Miguel" won the special performance prize for best ensemble cast at Canneseries. In December 2018 "The Jerusalem Post" reported that Danker is currently filming a new movie alongside Avigail Harari where they play groom and bride. In "The Sound of Music" he played Rolf the Nazi postman who fell in love with Liesl, the oldest daughter of the von Trapp family. Ran
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Johanna von Trapp


with her sister Agathe von Trapp. After World War II ended, the Trapp family held summer music camps in Stowe Vermont, at which Johanna von Trapp taught aspiring musicians the recorder, cooked for the camp guests and her family. She was secretary of the Trapp Family Austrian Relief, Inc., co-founded by her father Captain Georg von Trapp, to aide his fellow Austrians caught in dire post WWII needs. Their relief effort partnered with CARE (Cooperative for American Remittance to Europe and now Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere
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aired in mid-2008. Elicia MacKenzie won and played the role six times a week, while the runner-up in the TV show, Janna Polzin, played Maria twice a week. Captain von Trapp was played by Burke Moses. The show ran for more than 500 performances. It was Toronto's longest running revival ever. A UK tour began in 2009 and visited more than two dozen cities before ending in 2011. The original cast included Connie Fisher as Maria, Michael Praed as Captain von Trapp and Margaret Preece as the
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Mother Abbess. Kirsty Malpass was the alternate Maria. Jason Donovan assumed the role of Captain Von Trapp, and Verity Rushworth took over as Maria, in early 2011. Lesley Garrett reprised her role as Mother Abbess for the tour's final engagement in Wimbledon in October 2011. A production ran at the Ópera-Citi theater in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2011. The cast included Laura Conforte as Maria and Diego Ramos as Captain Von Trapp. A Spanish national tour began in November 2011 at the Auditorio de Tenerife in Santa Cruz
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least July 2017. Kerstin Anderson plays Maria, with Ben Davis as Capt. von Trapp and Ashley Brown as Mother Abess. The production has received warm reviews. A UK tour produced by Bill Kenwright began in 2015 and toured into 2016. It was directed by Martin Connor and starred Lucy O'Byrne as Maria. A 2016 Australian tour of the Lloyd Webber production, directed by Sams, included stops in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Adelaide. The cast included Cameron Daddo as Captain Von Trapp, Marina Prior as Baroness Schraeder and
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Liesel Pritzker Simmons


Gilbert Pritzker: Jennifer N. Pritzker; Linda Pritzker; and Karen Pritzker Vlock. She was named after the "Sound of Music" character Liesl von Trapp, the eldest daughter of the seven von Trapp children She is one of twelve surviving grandchildren of patriarch A.N. Pritzker, a financier and industrialist who died in 1986. Her uncle, Jay Pritzker, is the founder of the Hyatt Hotel chain, and owned Braniff Airlines from 1983–1988. The family controls the TransUnion Credit Bureau and the Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines. The Pritzker family has
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In the film, the von Trapp family hike over the Alps from Austria to Switzerland to escape the Nazis, which would not have been possible; Salzburg is over two hundred miles from Switzerland. The von Trapp villa, however, was only a few kilometers from the Austria–Germany border, and the final scene shows the family hiking on the Obersalzberg near the German town of Berchtesgaden, within sight of Adolf Hitler's Kehlsteinhaus Eagle's Nest retreat. In reality, the family simply walked to the local train station and boarded
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Yvonne Catterfeld


co-production "", released in November 2015. A remake of the 1956 German film that in turn inspired the Broadway musical "The Sound of Music" (1959) and the 1965 film of the same name, she plays Maria von Trapp, the stepmother and matriarch of the Trapp Family Singers. Critics dismissed the film as "clichéd heimatfilm". In 2016, Catterfeld appeared in the role of Nora Pilaster in the ZDF mini series "A Dangerous Fortune", based on British author Ken Follett's 1993 novel
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Karl Ehmann


Borsody; and "The Forester of the Silver Wood" (1954), in which he had one of his infrequent starring roles. In 1956 he would appear in the comedy "The Trapp Family", based on the memoirs of Maria von Trapp, which became the inspiration for the hugely successful American Broadway musical, "The Sound of Music", and the subsequent American film of the same name. Towards the end of his career, Ehmann would also appear in several television films for German and Austrian TV. Ehmann
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Charmian Carr


Charmian Carr (born Charmian Anne Farnon; December 27, 1942 – September 17, 2016) was an American actress and singer best known for her role as Liesl, the eldest Von Trapp daughter in the 1965 film version of "The Sound of Music". Carr was born Charmian Anne Farnon in Chicago, Illinois, the second child of vaudeville actress Rita Oehmen and musician Brian Farnon. The couple divorced in 1957. She had two sisters, both actresses (Shannon Farnon and Darleen Carr). Her family moved to Los
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was looking to expand its fleet of U-boats. With his family in desperate financial straits, and having no other marketable skills other than his training as a naval officer, he seriously considered the offer before deciding he could not serve a Nazi regime. Rather than threaten arrest, the Nazis actually continued to woo him. In the film, Georg is depicted initially as a humorless, emotionally distant father. In reality, third child Maria von Trapp (called "Louisa" in the film) described her father as a
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Rebecca Luker, Michael Siberry, Jan Maxwell and Fred Applegate. The Telarc label made a studio cast recording of "The Sound of Music", with the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra conducted by Erich Kunzel (1987). The lead roles went to opera stars: Frederica von Stade as Maria, Håkan Hagegård as Captain von Trapp, and Eileen Farrell as the Mother Abbess. The recording "includes both the two new songs written for the film version and the three Broadway songs they replace, as well as a previously unrecorded verse of
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West German film about the von Trapp family, and its 1958 sequel (""), stage director Vincent J. Donehue thought that the project would be perfect for his friend Mary Martin; Broadway producers Leland Hayward and Richard Halliday (Martin's husband) agreed. The producers originally envisioned a non-musical play that would be written by Lindsay and Crouse and that would feature songs from the repertoire of the Trapp Family Singers. Then they decided to add an original song or two, perhaps by Rodgers and Hammerstein. But it was
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The Sound of Music Live (2015)


The Sound of Music Live is a television special that was originally broadcast by ITV on 20 December 2015. The special was an adaptation of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway musical "The Sound of Music", starring Kara Tointon as Maria von Trapp, performed and televised live from 3 Mills Studios in London. On 9 November 2018, the production was broadcast in the United States as part of PBS's performing arts anthology series "Great Performances". In October 2015, ITV announced that it would transmit a live adaptation of the
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The Sound of Music Live!


The Sound of Music Live! is a television special that was originally broadcast by NBC on December 5, 2013. Produced by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, the special was an adaptation of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway musical "The Sound of Music". The television special starred country singer and "American Idol" winner Carrie Underwood as Maria von Trapp, and was performed and televised live from Grumman Studios in Bethpage, New York. Spearheaded by NBC chairman Bob Greenblatt, the network positioned the special as being a live television
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, and a total worldwide gross of $286,214,076. Adjusted for inflation, the film earned about $2.366 billion at 2014 prices—the fifth highest-grossing film of all time. "The Sound of Music" film, like the stage musical, presents a history of the von Trapp family that is not completely accurate. The film was influenced by other musicals of its era, such as "Mary Poppins", the Rodgers and Hammerstein television production of "Cinderella", and the stage production of Lerner and Loewe's
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Virgilia, Mother Abbess


by German actress Agnes Windeck, in the original 1956 feature-film on the von Trapp family. In the 1959 Broadway musical "The Sound of Music", Lütz was portrayed by Patricia Neway, who won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her performance. The song Climb Ev'ry Mountain, written by Rodgers and Hammerstein, is sung by the Mother Abbess to Maria, encouraging her to be strong and follow her heart. In the 1965 film "The Sound of Music", the Mother Abbess was
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it "a cinema masterpiece". Prior to directing "The Sound of Music" (1965), Wise directed the psychological horror film "The Haunting" (1963), starring Julie Harris, in an adaptation of Shirley Jackson's novel, "The Haunting of Hill House". Wise's big-budget adaptation of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein's family-oriented musical "The Sound of Music", with Julie Andrews as Maria and Christopher Plummer as Captain von Trapp, became one of film history's top-
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eventually their widowed father, Captain von Trapp. He is ordered to accept a commission in the German navy, but he opposes the Nazis. He and Maria decide on a plan to flee Austria with the children. Many songs from the musical have become standards, such as "Edelweiss", "My Favorite Things", "Climb Ev'ry Mountain", "Do-Re-Mi", and the title song "The Sound of Music". The original Broadway production, starring Mary Martin and Theodore Bikel, opened
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Robmariel Olea


, Dominican Republic and Mexico) for two years. In musical theater, she worked with some of the most renowned producers in the D.R among which are Nuryn Sanlley, Fidel López and Amaury Sánchez. She played the role of Velma von Tussle in “Hairspray” and appeared in “Cabaret” as the main character Sally Bowles, as Mary Magdalene in “Jesus Christ Superstar," as Liesl Von Trapp in “The Sound of Music,” as Miss Farrell in “Annie,” and as Babette in “Beauty and
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Alvie


Sir Robert was the grandson of Robert Whitehead who invented the torpedo. The Whitehead family married into some of the most influential in Europe with Bertie’s cousin Marguerite marrying Herbert von Bismark, son of the German chancellor Otto von Bismarck, whilst another cousin Agathe Whitehead, fell in love with and married an Austrian Kapitanleutnant Georg Johannes Von Trapp. Agathe died of scarlet fever in 1922 leaving Georg to bring up their 7 children with the help of a governess from the nearby Benedictine Nunnery, who taught them music. The musical the Sound
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Angela Cartwright


She remained close to Thomas after the series cancellation until his death on February 6, 1991. Cartwright returned to Europe to play the role of Brigitta von Trapp in "The Sound of Music" (1965). Filmed on location, the film won five Academy Awards including Best Picture, the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and eclipsed "Gone with the Wind" (1939) as the highest-grossing film of all-time. The Sound of Music soundtrack was nominated for a Grammy Award
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Rupert von Trapp


) von Trapp (1891–1922). He grew up in Zell am See during World War I with his siblings, Agathe von Trapp (1913–2010), Maria Franziska von Trapp (1914–2014), Werner von Trapp (1915–2007), Hedwig von Trapp (1917–1972), and Johanna von Trapp (1919–1994). The youngest sister, Martina von Trapp (1921–1951), was born in Klosterneuburg (Austria), whither the Trapp Family had moved from Zell-am-See because their home (a "lake hotel" called
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Johanna von Trapp


Agathe von Trapp and first child after World War I. She had brown hair and brown eyes, and grew up in Zell am See with her siblings: Rupert (1911–1992) Agathe (1913–2010), Maria Franziska (1914–2014), Werner (1915–2007) and Hedwig (1917–1972). The last child, Martina (1921–1951), was born in Klosterneuburg by Wien (Austria). During the war (WWI) Georg, Agathe and their children, unable to stay at their home in Pola, Istria (today Croatia)
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Sound of Music in 2013, which was watched by 18 million people on NBC. It was the first full-scale musical made for TV and performed live since 1957. Rinehart graduated from Lindbergh High School in St. Louis, Missouri, and attended Barnard College, where she majored in sociology and minored in German. As part of the promotion for The Sound of Music Live! she performed one of the songs live in the 2013 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Rinehart also reunited with the other Von Trapp children in December 2014
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