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Howard Lindsay (29 de marzo de 1889 – 11 de febrero de 1968) fue un productor y director teatral, dramaturgo, libretista y actor de nacionalidad estadounidense. Es conocido por escribir formando equipo con Russel Crouse, además de por la interpretación, en compañía de su esposa Dorothy Stickney, de la obra Life with Father .
- Herman S. Nelke
Howard Lindsay, born Herman Nelke, (March 29, 1889 – February 11, 1968) was an American playwright, librettist, director, actor and theatrical producer. He is best known for his writing work as part of the collaboration of Lindsay and Crouse , and for his performance, with his wife Dorothy Stickney , in the long-running play Life ...
- Herman Nelke, March 29, 1889, Waterford, New York
- Dorothy Stickney, (m.1927-1968; his death)
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- Television Adaptations
- Reception
- Cast Recordings
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After viewing The Trapp Family, a 1956 West German film about the von Trapp family, and its 1958 sequel (The Trapp Family in America), stage director Vincent J. Donehue thought that the project would be perfect for his friend Mary Martin; Broadway producers Leland Hayward and Richard Halliday (Martin's husband) agreed. The producers originally envi...
Act I
In Salzburg, Austria, just before World War II, nuns from Nonnberg Abbey sing the Dixit Dominus. One of the postulants, Maria Rainer, is on the nearby mountainside, regretting leaving the beautiful hills ("The Sound of Music"). She returns late to the abbey where the Mother Abbess and the other nuns have been considering what to do about the free-spirit ("Maria"). Maria explains her lateness, saying she was raised on that mountain, and apologizes for singing in the garden without permission....
Act II
Max teaches the children how to sing on stage. When the Captain tries to lead them, they complain that he is not doing it as Maria did. He tells them that he has asked Elsa to marry him. They try to cheer themselves up by singing "My Favorite Things" but are unsuccessful until they hear Maria singing on her way to rejoin them. Learning of the wedding plans, she decides to stay only until the Captain can arrange for another governess. Max and Elsa argue with the Captain about the imminent Ansc...
Characters
1. Maria Rainer, a postulantat Nonnberg Abbey 2. Captain Georg von Trapp 3. The Children: 3.1. Liesl von Trapp, age 16 3.2. Friedrich von Trapp, age 14 3.3. Louisa von Trapp, age 13 3.4. Kurt von Trapp, age 11 3.5. Brigitta von Trapp, age 10 3.6. Marta von Trapp, age 7 3.7. Gretl von Trapp, age 5 4. The Mother Abbess, the head of Nonnberg Abbey 5. Baroness Elsa Schrader"wealthy and sophisticated" and Captain von Trapp's would-be fiancée 6. Max Detweiler, Captain von Trapp's friend, a music ag...
Notable replacements
Broadway (1959–63) 1. Maria: Martha Wright, Jeannie Carson, Nancy Dussault 2. Baroness: Lois Hunt 3. Max: Paul Lipson 4. Rolf: Jon Voight Broadway (1998–99) 1. Maria: Laura Benanti 2. Captain von Trapp: Dennis Parlato, Richard Chamberlain 3. Max: Patrick Quinn, Lenny Wolpe West End (2006–09) 1. Maria: Summer Strallen, Aoife Mulholland(s/b) 2. Captain von Trapp: Simon Burke, Simon MacCorkindale 3. The Mother Abbess: Margaret Preece
Original productions
The Sound of Music premiered at New Haven's Shubert Theatre where it played an eight-performance tryout in October and November 1959 before another short tryout in Boston. The musical then opened on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on November 16, 1959, moved to the Mark Hellinger Theatre on November 6, 1962, and closed on June 15, 1963, after 1,443 performances. The director was Vincent J. Donehue, and the choreographer was Joe Layton. The original cast included Mary Martin as Maria, Th...
1981 London revival
In 1981, at producer Ross Taylor's urging, Petula Clark agreed to star in a revival of the show at the Apollo Victoria Theatre in London's West End. Michael Jayston played Captain von Trapp, Honor Blackman was the Baroness and June Bronhill played the Mother Abbess. Other notable cast members included Helen Anker, John Bennett and Martina Grant. Despite her misgivings that, at age 49, she was too old to play the role convincingly, Clark opened to unanimous rave reviews and the largest advance...
1998 Broadway revival
Director Susan H. Schulman staged the first Broadway revival of The Sound of Music, with Rebecca Luker as Maria and Michael Siberry as Captain von Trapp. It also featured Patti Cohenour as Mother Abbess, Jan Maxwell as Elsa Schrader, Fred Applegate as Max Detweiler, Dashiell Eaves as Rolf, Patricia Conolly as Frau Schmidt and Laura Benanti, in her Broadway debut, as Luker's understudy. Later, Luker and Siberry were replaced by Richard Chamberlain as the Captain and Benanti as Maria. Lou Taylo...
On March 2, 1965, 20th Century Fox released a film adaptation of the musical starring Julie Andrews as Maria Rainer and Christopher Plummer as Captain Georg von Trapp. It was produced and directed by Robert Wise with the screenplay adaptation written by Ernest Lehman. Two songs were written by Rodgers specifically for the film, "I Have Confidence" ...
A live televised production of the musical aired twice in December 2013 on NBC. It was directed by Beth McCarthy-Miller and Rob Ashford. Carrie Underwood starred as Maria, with Stephen Moyer as Captain von Trapp, Christian Borle as Max, Laura Benanti as Elsa, and Audra McDonald as the Mother Abbess.The production was released on DVD the same month....
Most reviews of the original Broadway production were favorable. Richard Watts Jr. of the New York Post stated that the show had "strangely gentle charm that is wonderfully endearing. The Sound of Music strives for nothing in the way of smash effects, substituting instead a kind of gracious and unpretentious simplicity." The New York World-Telegram...
Columbia Masterworks recorded the original Broadway cast album at the Columbia 30th Street Studio in New York City a week after the show's 1959 opening. The album was the label's first deluxe package in a gatefold jacket, priced $1 higher than previous cast albums. It was No. 1 on Billboard's best-selling albums chart for 16 weeks in 1960. It was r...
Green, Stanley. Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre (1980). Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-306-80113-2Hischak, Thomas. The Rodgers and Hammerstein Encyclopedia (2007). Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 0-313-34140-0Maslon, Laurence, with a foreword by Andrew Lloyd Webber. The Sound of Music Companion (2007) Simon and Schuster. ISBN 1-4165-4954-4Monush, Barry. The Sound of Music FAQ: All That's Left to Know About Maria, the von Trapps, and Our Favorite Things (2015) Hal Leonard Corporation. ISBN 1495025942Bell, Bethany, "Austria discovers The Sound of Music", BBC, Saturday, March 19, 2005.Block, Geoffrey. The Richard Rodgers Reader. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.Ewen, David. With a Song in His Heart (Richard Rodgers). New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963.Fordin, Hugh. Getting To Know Him: The Biography of Oscar Hammerstein II. New York: Random House, 1977; Decapo Press, 1995.De Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre. Howard Lindsay (29 de marzo de 1889 – 11 de febrero de 1968) fue un productor y director teatral, dramaturgo, libretista y actor de nacionalidad estadounidense. Es conocido por escribir formando equipo con Russel Crouse, además de por la interpretación, en compañía de su esposa Dorothy Stickney, de la ...
Life with Father (literalmente en español, « (La) vida con (mi) padre» o « (La) vida con papá») es una obra de teatro de 1939 de Howard Lindsay y Russel Crouse, adaptada de un libro autobiográfico humorístico de historias compilado en 1935 por Clarence Day. La producción de Broadway tuvo una duración de 3224 funciones durante 401 ...
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Lindsay and Crouse was the writing team of Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, who collaborated famously on a succession of Broadway plays and musicals for 27 years during the mid 20th century. Their first collaboration was the rewriting of the book for the Cole Porter musical Anything Goes in 1935.
The film is an adaptation of the 1959 stage musical composed by Richard Rodgers, with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and a book by Lindsay and Crouse. It is based on the 1949 memoir The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria von Trapp and is set in Salzburg, Austria.
