HISTORY
Opened on Broadway - November 16, 1959
1,442 performances
5 Tony Awards (including Best Musical), Gold Record, and Grammy Award
National Tour: Riviera Theatre in Detroit on Feb. 27, 1961 through Toronto's O'Keefe Center on Nov. 23, 1963
London Production: London's West End at the Palace Theatre on May 18, 1961
2, 385 performances - holding the record as the longest-running American musical in London.
Motion Picture (1965): 5 Academy Awards (including Best Picture)
Songs added to the film: “I Have Confidence” and “Something Good”
Cast: Julie Andrews as Maria, Christopher Plummer as the Captain, Eleanor Parker as Elsa, Peggy Wood as the Mother Abbess, and Charmian Carr as Liesl.
Hollywood’s most famous unseen voice, Marni Nixon, here has an on-screen role as Sister Sophia
The actual real-life Maria von Trapp has a cameo appearance in a Salzburg market scene.
Adapted from https://www.concordtheatricals.com/p/57263/the-sound-of-music#:~:text=One%20of%20the%20most%20beloved,as%20the%20Nazis%20gain%20power.