The Sound of Music is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, and book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. It is based on Maria von Trapp's book The Story of the Trapp Family Singers.
The original Broadway production opened in November 1959, and the show has enjoyed numerous productions and revivals since then. It has also been made into a popular 1965 movie musical. The Sound of Music was the final musical written by Rodgers and Hammerstein; Hammerstein died of cancer nine months after the premiere.
Act I
- Praeludium - The Nuns
- The Sound of Music - Maria
- Maria - The Nuns
- My Favorite Things - Maria and the Mother Abbess
- Do-Re-Mi - Maria and the Children
- Sixteen Going On Seventeen - Rolf and Liesl
- The Lonely Goatherd - Maria and the Children
- How Can Love Survive - Max and Elsa
- The Sound of Music (Reprise) - Maria, the Captain and the Children
- Ländler
- So Long, Farewell - The Children
- Climb Ev'ry Mountain - Mother Abbess
Act II
- No Way to Stop It - Max, the Captain and Elsa
- An Ordinary Couple - Maria and the Captain *
- Processional - The Nuns
- Sixteen Going On Seventeen (Reprise) - Maria and Liesl
- Do-Re-Mi (Reprise) - Maria, the Captain and the Children **
- Edelweiss - The Captain, Maria and the Children
- So Long, Farewell (Reprise) - Maria, the Captain and the Children
- Finale - The Nuns
NOTES:
* Sometimes replaced by Something Good
** Replaced by The Lonely Goatherd in the 1998 revival
- In some productions, My Favorite Things follows Sixteen Going on Seventeen in the thunderstorm scene, while The Lonely Goatherd is shifted to another scene.
- Many stage revivals have also included "I Have Confidence" and "Something Good", which were written for the film version by Richard Rodgers.
- Many people believe "Edelweiss" to be a traditional Austrian song, or even a national anthem. In fact the song was written for the musical and is little known in Austria.
- The Ländler dance as performed by Maria and the Captain during the party is only loosely based on the traditional Austrian dance of the same name
Source: Wikipedia
