The Sound Of Music – LSOD 2005 – (90-95%) – English LP Vinyl Record

The original Broadway production, starring Mary Martin and Theodore Bikel, opened in 1959 and won five Tony Awards, including Best Musical, out of nine nominations. The first London production opened at the Palace Theatre in 1961. The show has enjoyed numerous productions and revivals since then. It was adapted as a 1965 film musical starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, which won five Academy Awards. The Sound of Music was the last musical written by Rodgers and Hammerstein; Oscar Hammerstein died of cancer nine months after the Broadway. After viewing The Trapp Family, a 1956 West German film about the von Trapp family, and its 1958 sequel (Die Trapp-Familie in Amerika), 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 soon agreed that the project should feature all new songs and be a musical rather than a play.

• Prelude And The Sound Of Music

• Overture And Preludium (Dixit Domminus)

• Morning Hymm And Alleuia

• Maria

• I Have Confidence in Me…

• Sixteen Going On Seventeen

• My Favorite Things

• Climb Ev’ry Mountain

• The Lonley Goatherd

• The Sound Of Music

• Do Re Mi

• Something Good

• Processional And Maria

• Edelweiss

• So Long Farewell

• Clinb Ev’ry Moutain (Reprise)