Passion piece

The Sound of Music “passion piece”

I have seen The Sound of Music many times and I still love watching it. I love all the songs and know them by heart. I have only seen the movie of The Sound of Music but I would love to see it on Broadway. I will begin by telling you a little about The Sound of Music. The Sound of Music is a musical film and was released in 1965. It was directed by Robert Wise. The film is based off of the Broadway production of The Sound of Music. The songs are written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, the musical book is written by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, and the screenplay is written by Ernest Lehman. The movie has won five Oscars as well as many other awards.
The main characters from the movie include:

Maria (the main character) played by Julie Andrews
Captain Von Trapp (father of the children) played by Christopher Plummer
The Baroness played by Eleanor Parker
Max Detweiler played by Richard Haydn
Mother Abbess played by Peggy Wood
The Von Trapp children include:
Liesl played by Charmian Carr
Louisa played by Heather Menzies
Freidrich played by Nicholas Hammond
Kurt played by Duane Chase
Brigitta played by Angela Cartwright
Marta played by Debbie Turner
Gretl played by Kym Karath

The Sound of Music takes place in Austria around 1930’s. At the beginning Maria is trying to become a nun but she is sent to be a governess for the Von Trapp family. Captain Von Trapp is a widowed naval commander and he has seven children. Captain Von Trapp is very strict and has strict rules that he wants Maria to follow. The Captain runs his house like he used to run his ship. The children are not very nice to Maria and they play tricks on her. However soon they start too really like her. Maria teaches the children how to sing and they become really god at it. After a while, Maria finds herself starting to fall in love with the Captain and she runs away because she is afraid to show her feeling. Since Maria does not show her feeling to the Captain, the Captain is soon going to get married to The Baroness. The Captain and The Baroness end up not getting married and The Captain and Maria get married. In the meantime, the Nazis take control in Austria as part of the Anschluss and they want Captain Von Trapp back in service. The Von Trapp family is scheduled to perform in a guarded theater where they will be singing. The family is able to sneak away and they head to Switzerland.
The Sound of Music is not just a great movie, but it is also a favorite of many on Broadway. The original Broadway production opened in November 1959 and the show has been enjoyed since then. The Lunt-Fontanne Theatre is the theater that the show opened in on November 16, 1959. The Sound of Music has also won many awards. It has made it into the Academy Award winning 1965 musical film. For the Broadway production of The Sound of Music, the characters are played by different people than the movie. I have only seen the movie of The Sound of Music, but I would love to experience it on Broadway.
Some history about The Sound of Music is that the musical presents a history of the Von Trapp family, although it is not exactly the same. Captain Von Trapp is anti Nazis and lives in Salzburg with his family. The captain is married to Marie become the Anschluss. The captain decided to emigrate instead of joining the Anschluss. While the Von Trapp family is heading to Switzerland to get away form the Nazis, they actually go to the train station and get on a train headed for Italy. Then they go to London and finally to the United States. If the Von Trapp family would have really hiked over the mountains, they would not have ended up in Switzerland, but in Germany.
The Sound of Music has many Genres. Some of the Genres include musical, family, and drama. The movie has a theme song to it and the song is "the hills are alive with the sound of music". I love that song. I would say that love is a pretty big theme for The Sound of Music because of how the captain and Maria end up falling in love. The Sound of Music is just a great movie and it is also a great production on Broadway.
I chose to write about The Sound of Music for this blog item because I love it. I love all the songs that are sun during the movie and I know them all by heart. Julie Andrews is such a great singer and she really is a great actor in the movie. I love how all the children learn to sing and dance and they love it. I took four years of German and that is one of the main languages spoken in Austria. I really like the house that the Von Trapp family lives in for the movie because it is really nice and elegant. I really enjoy how Maria is able to bring happiness and love into the Von Trapp family. Since the songs of the movie are my most favorite thing, my second favorite thing is how Marie and the Captain fall in love. I think that is a very romantic movie. Overall I just love the whole movie and I have seen it so many times.