The Sound of Music

The Sound of Music

Maria

Captain Von Trapp

The Baroness

Max Detweiler

Mother Abbess

Liesl

Louisa

Friedrich

Kurt

Brigitta

Gretl

Sister Margaretta

Sister Berthe

Herr Zeller

Rolfe

Frau Schmidt

Franz

Sister Sophia

Sister Bernice

Baroness Ebberfeld

Nazi (uncredited)

Party Guest (uncredited)

Sister Catherine (uncredited)

Party extra - next to Von Trap (uncredited)

Party Guest (uncredited)

Party Guest (uncredited)

Sister Agatha (uncredited)

Extra during 'I Have Confidence' number (uncredited)

The original Broadway production of "The Sound of Music" opened at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on November 16, 1959, ran for 1443 performances and won (in a tie) the 1960 Tony Award for the Best Musical.

First showed on US TV on ABC on February 29 1976 to record ratings.

The gazebo used for the "Sixteen Going on Seventeen" and "Something Good" scenes can still be visited in the Salzburg area, on "Sound of Music" tours. However, the public had to be excluded from the interior because film fans who were considerably older than "sixteen going on seventeen" were injuring themselves while trying to dance along the seats. The gazebo in Austria was only used for exterior shots. The actual dance by Charmian Carr and Daniel Truhitte was, in fact, filmed on a replica of the gazebo's interior on a sound stage at 20th Century-Fox in Los Angeles, as were the shots of Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer.

During Maria's 'I Have Confidence' song there is a field with a horse behind her to the right and as she continues singing she goes down a path that puts that would put that field on her right. In the next shot of her singing there is a long building on her right with no sign of the horse or field.

When the Nazi troops are marching through the town square, the building shadows change position in relationship to the horse and carriage.

The outside of the Von Trapp house is clearly not the same house as the inside. The front of the house from the outside has tons of windows on all levels but when Maria walks in the front door there are no windows in the two story foyer - just the giant staircase and a plain windowless wall around the front door from the inside.

Maria: [singing] The hills are alive with the sound of music / With songs they have sung for a thousand years. / The hills fill my heart with the sound of music. / My heart wants to sing every song it hears.

Marta: The least they could have done is to let us say hello.

Liesl: I'm Liesl. I'm sixteen years old and I don't need a governess.