The Sound of Music at the NAC. a Fresh and Invigorating Production.
Photo. David Cooper
Maria, we learn early in this fresh and invigorating production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s famous musical The Sound of Music, wears curlers beneath her wimple. She’s a postulant, a kind of nun-in-waiting at the time and a burr beneath the abbey’s saddle, her hunger for life too big for the constraints of a black-and-white habit.
As everyone who’s seen The Sound of Music knows — and our numbers are legion thanks to the award-winning stage show which premièred in 1959 and the equally awarded mid-’60s film starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer — Maria chucks the head gear. In the process, she unveils her true self and that of the von Trapp family, the motherless gang of seven that Maria joins first as subversive governess and then as wife of Austrian war hero Captain von Trapp.
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