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THE SOUND OF MUSIC

21 – 22 December 2024

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The Sound of Music

Music by RICHARD RODGERS
Lyrics by OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II
Book by HOWARD LINDSAY and RUSSEL CROUSE
Suggested by “The Trapp Family Singers” by Maria Augusta Trapp

The Sound of Music is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd. on behalf of The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization. concordtheatricals.co.uk

A Pitlochry Festival Theatre Production

The Sound of Music is a joyous and heart-warming musical set in Austria on the eve of World War II.

It follows the story of a young novice nun Maria, whose free spirit has trouble fitting in with the regulations of the convent. She leaves to be a governess to seven motherless children, while contemplating whether to commit to life as a nun. Maria transforms the von Trapp family home from a place of strict rules to one filled with joy, laughter, and music. In the process, she falls in love with the children, capturing their hearts and finding herself drawn to their widower father, Captain von Trapp.

With the blessing of the Mother Abbess and to the children’s delight, Maria follows her heart and marries the Captain. Returning home from their honeymoon, they learn that their beloved Austria is under Nazi control, and the Captain has been summoned to serve in the Third Reich’s navy.

Determined to escape the dangerous situation, they resolve to leave Austria. After narrowly evading pursuit by Nazi officers, they embark on a treacherous journey with the children over the mountains to reach safety in Switzerland.

This wonderful musical features infectious songs by Rodgers & Hammerstein, including Maria, My Favorite Things, Do-Re-Mi, Sixteen Going On Seventeen, The Lonely Goatherd, So Long, Farewell, Edelweiss and Climb Ev’ry Mountain.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Venue: Auditorium

Dates: 15 Nov – 22 Dec 2024

Running time: 2 hours 50 minutes, including a 20 minute interval

Accessible Performances

Audio Described: 14 Dec 2pm

BSL: 15 Dec 2pm

Captioned: 11 Dec 2pm

Relaxed and Dementia Friendly: 12 Dec 2pm

Reviews

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“captivating”

The Observer

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“spine-tingling”

Musical Theatre Review

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“triumphant”

West End Best Friend

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“a show that nourishes and redeems.”

The Guardian

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“an overwhelming sense of love.”

WhatsOnStage

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“intimate, energetic”

The Times

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“driven by a passionate connection with the music.”

The Scotsman

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” a sublime portrayal”

Theatre Scotland

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“perfect harmony”

The List

Creatives

Director Elizabeth Newman

Musical Director Richard Reeday

Associate Director Sam Hardie

Set Designer Ruari Murchison

Costume Designer Julie Carlin

Lighting Designer Chris Davey

Sound Designer Pippa Murphy

Cast

Maria Rainer Kirsty Findlay

Captain Georg von Trapp Ali Watt

Liesl von Trapp, Nun Sally Cheng

Mother Abbess Kate Milner-Evans

Admiral von Schreiber, Baron Elberfeld, Lieutenant Jack Ward

Postulant Trudy Ward

Rolf Gruber Elliot Gooch

Baroness Elberfeld, Sister Sophia Ellen Lawford

Herr Zeller Matthew James Hinchliffe

Sister Margaretta Lydia Barton Lovett

Elsa Schraeder, Nun Hannah Baker

Frau Schmidt, Sister Berthe Angela Caesar

Franz Lee Drage

Max Detweiler Christian Edwards

Young Company

Friedrich Joseph Miranda/Benjamin Barenco

Louisa Ailsa Marx/Tanvi Reddy

Kurt Theo Miranda/Ross Martin

Brigitta Millie Nicholson/Lily McSherry

Marta Isla MacGregor/Martha Swain

Gretl Leva Stewart/Callie Wilson

Kirsty Findlay

Kirsty Findlay

Kirsty trained at Edinburgh Napier University in Acting and English Literature. Kirsty was nominated with the 2016 cast of Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour (National Theatre of Scotland) for an Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.

Theatre credits: Footloose, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Sense and Sensibility (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); Forever Home, Exquisite Corpse and Oscar (A Play, A Pie & A Pint); A Christmas Carol (Dundee Rep); A Mother’s Song (Macrobert Arts Centre); Islander: The Musical (Helen Milne Productions, New York Off-Broadway, UK Tour & London transfer); Jack & the Beanstalk (Perth Theatre); Jamie & the Unicorn (The Gaiety Theatre); Christmas Tales (Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh); Unspotted Snow (Mull Theatre); Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour (National Theatre of Scotland & Sonia Friedman Productions); Shattered (In Motion Theatre); Girl Meets Boy (National Theatre of Scotland) and Sleeping Beauty and Beauty and the Beast (Bard in the Botanics/Byre Theatre).

Film/Radio/TV credits: Close (Tom Gentle Productions); Scenes for Survival (National Theatre of Scotland/BBC); On the Outside (Nasreen Sarerei); Good Girls (Edinburgh International Film Festival/Edinburgh Napier University) and Lethe (December Works).
Ali Watt

Ali Watt

Ali trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

Theatre credits include: About Love, Smoking Is Bad for You, The Admirable Crichton, Beautiful Boy, Blithe Spirit, A Christmas Carol, The Crucible, Donald & Benoit, Heritage, The Monarch of the Glen, Perfect Days, Summer Holiday, Whisky Kisses, The Wind in the Willows and The Yellow on the Broom (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); The Grand Old Opera House Hotel (Traverse Theatre – Fringe First); Much Ado About Nothing (Dundee Rep); Not About Heroes (Eden Court); The Stamping Ground (Eden Court/Raw Material); Dialogues From Babel and Europe (Edinburgh International Book Festival); Richard Gadd: Best Of (Monkey Barrel Comedy); The Borrowers, Dracula, Far from the Madding Crowd, and Where Have I Been All My Life? (New Vic Theatre); England Street (Oxford Playhouse); Romeo & Juliet (Theatre Royal Bury St. Edmunds); Country Music (Trafalgar Studios).

Screen credits include: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (National Theatre of Scotland/Sky Arts); Irvine Welsh’s Crime (ITV/Buccaneer Media); Lucy Worseley Investigates (BBC); The Cut (Simon Starling); and Outlander (Sony/Starz).
Sally Cheng

Sally Cheng

Sally trained at Guildford School of Acting.

Theatre credits include: Twelfth Night (Regents Park Open Air Theatre); The Wizard of Oz and Macbeth (The Watermill Theatre); Tony! The Tony Blair Rock Opera (Leicester Square Theatre/UK Tour); Richard II, Love’s Labour’s Lost and Robin Hood (Guildford Shakespeare Company), A Christmas Carol and Twelfth Night (Royal Shakespeare Company); The Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 and 3/4 The Musical (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch); The Play that Goes Wrong (West End); A Christmas Carol and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Scoot Theatre); The Wind in the Willows (Jermyn Street/Guildford Shakespeare Company); The Last of the Pelican Daughters (The Wardrobe Ensemble/Complicité/ Bristol Old Vic); A Christmas Carol and The Emperor and the Nightingale (Theatre by the Lake); For Services Rendered (Jermyn Street Theatre ); Shadowlands (Chichester Festival Theatre); Footprints on the Moon (Finborough Theatre); Singin’ In the Rain (Bolton Octagon Theatre/Salisbury Playhouse/New Vic).
Kate Milner-Evans

Kate Milner-Evans

Kate trained at the Royal Northern College of Music and has had a versatile career beginning in Opera and Operetta in Germany and Switzerland under her Croatian family name Radmilovic. Winning first Prize Public Vote at the Robert Stolz operetta competition, Kate returned to the UK to play Carlotta in Phantom of the Opera at His Majesty’s Theatre.

Theatre credits: Carlotta – Phantom of the Opera (His Majesty’s Theatre); The Two Popes (English Theatre Frankfurt); Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Leeds Playhouse No.1 National Tour); Brief Encounter (The Watermill Theatre); Wind in the Willows and Night at the Musicals & Opera (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); Showboat (Crucible Sheffield/New London Theatre); Crazy for You (No.1 National Tour); Wizard of Oz (Selladoor Worldwide), Adding Machine (Finborough Theatre); Jackie the Musical (Gardyne Theatre).

Opera credits: Hanna Glawari The Merry Widow, Rosalinde Die Fledermaus, Lisa Land des Lächeln, Musetta La Boheme, Tatyana Eugene Onegin, Vitellia Titus, Agathe Der Freischütz, Donna Elvira Don Giovanni, Violetta La Traviata, Cio cio San Madame Butterfly (Osnabrück Opera House) The Magic Flute (Eutin Festival), Lady Billows Albert Herring (Darmstadt Opera House), – Frau Fluth Merry Wives of Windsor (Weimer Opernhaus); Marriage of Figaro, Antonia The Tales of Hoffmann, Queen of the Night Magic Flute (St Gallen).

Film credits: Nurses who Kill (Netflix); Killer Next Door (Amazon Prime); Scarecrows Revenge (Amazon Prime)
Jack Ward

Jack Ward

Jack was born in Gloucester in 1998 and trained as an actor musician at Guildford School of Acting – graduating in the summer of 2020.

Since graduating, he has worked in both theatre and television, appearing as an earnest suitor to Miss Edwina Sharma in an episode of the second series of the award-winning Netflix period drama Bridgerton and also in three outdoor productions with the London Touring Players in the New Forest: ensemble roles in The Comedy of Errors and Ghost Stories; and as Kai in The Snow Queen at Beaulieu Abbey for Christmas 2022.

In his final year at GSA, he played the role of Mr Dussel in the BA Actor Musicians’ moving production of The Diary of Anne Frank and his early theatre experience includes several productions with the National Youth Music Theatre: Brass (2016), Billy the Kid (2017) and Superhero (2018).

Jack is a woodwind specialist. He began playing clarinet, aged 7, and over the years he has extended his repertoire to include soprano, alto, tenor and baritone saxophones, oboe and flute.

This is his debut season at Pitlochry Festival Theatre.
Trudy Ward

Trudy Ward

Trudy was born in Nottinghamshire and is a 2022 graduate of the BA Actor-Musician course at the Guildford School of Acting.

Credits: Electra/Agnes in Gypsy, Martha in The Secret Garden, and Vee in To The Bone (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); Witches of Eastwick in Concert (Sondheim Theatre); West End Does Christmas (Cadogan Hall); As You Like It (Jupiter Theatre); 9 to 5 (Mayhem Theatre Company).
Elliot Gooch

Elliot Gooch

Elliot trained at Bird College & National Youth Music Theatre. Elliot is also a highly skilled pianist and trumpeter, and regularly leads theatre workshops across the country.

Recording credits: Atlantic (Noisemaker Productions); The 306: Dawn, Day & Dusk (National Theatre of Scotland) and Islander (HMP)

Theatre credits: Sister Act (UK & Ireland Tour); Treasure Island (The Barn Theatre); How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Southwark Playhouse, 2024 OffWestEnd Theatre Award Nominee
for Best Supporting Performance in a Musical); Dorian: The Musical (The Other Palace Theatre); Grease (UK Tour); Catfish: The Musical (The Turbine Theatre); The Prince and the Pauper (New Vic Theatre); Once On This Island (Southwark Playhouse); Brass (Hackney Empire).

Concert credits: Backing dancer for American popstar Pink at the 2019 BRIT Awards (O2 Arena); Principal Trumpet in the New York International Music Festival (Carnegie Hall).

Workshop & Reading credits: David Bowie in Bess: A Pop Musical (Stuart Brayson); Josh in Nul Points! (Peter Bull); Mr Knightley in Woodhouse (Blue Touch Paper Productions); Donald in Our Sons (Bryan Hodgson).

Film credits: The Interview (Mystery Pictures); All Those Things (AOD Productions), now available on Apple TV and Amazon Prime.

Musical Director credits: Pop Forever (UK Tour).
Ellen Lawford

Ellen Lawford

Ellen trained at Mountview.

Theatre credits: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Reluctant Dragon; A Christmas Carol (Quantum Theatre); Heavenly Bodies, Having A Good Time, and A Few Of Our Favourite Sins (Fingask Follies); New Faces (Players’ Theatre).

Training credits include: Thomas Ledbury in Coram Boy; Princess Katherine in Henry V; Mother in The Railway Children; Ensemble/Understudy Cookie/Band Captain in Return to the Forbidden Planet, London, Judith Keith in Tales of the Unexbrechted (Mountview).

Commercial credits: The National Lottery.

Short Film credits: Ren in Ren’s Courage; Bette in Bad Seed; Billie in Leaning In; Sam in Maturation.

Other credits include: Various Cabarets with Fox Called Friday
Matthew James Hinchliffe

Matthew James Hinchliffe

Matthew trained at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London & Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.

Theatre credits: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Gillian Lynne Theatre & UK Tour); Amelié (Criterion Theatre); Dirty Dancing (Phoenix Theatre); Nativity! The Musical (Bridgehouse Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Crazy For You, Singin’ in the Rain, Calamity Jane, Fiddler on the Roof, Chess, Sweet Charity, Assassins, Thoroughly Modern Millie and West Side Story (UK and Ireland Tours); Carnival of the Animals (Riverside Studios); Chess (Princess of Wales Theatre, Toronto); Cabaret (European Tour); Peter Pan and The Happy Prince (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch); Into The Woods (Embassy Theatre); Merrily We Roll Along (Crescent Theatre).

TV credits: Toxic Town (Netflix); Coronation Street (ITV); Doctors (BBC).
Lydia Barton Lovett

Lydia Barton Lovett

Lydia is from Margate in Kent and trained at Rose Bruford College.

Theatre credits: Treasure Island, A Christmas Carol and Louisa (Pleasure Dome Theatre Company); My name is Gef (Red Jay Theatre); What Do You See? (The PappyShow); Runesical (Gigglemug Theatre); Romeo & Juliet (Quarter Too Ensemble); The Importance of Being Earnest (Michael Friend Productions); Pardoned (The Bohemians Theatre Company).

Composer/Musical Director credits: Masks and Faces (Finborough Theatre); Othello, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Importance of Being Earnest (Changeling Theatre).
Hannah Baker

Hannah Baker

Hannah is from Coventry and trained at Mountview Academy.

Theatre Credits: Hamlet and Twelfth Night (Shakespeare’s Rose Theatre); Robin Hood and the Babes in the Wood and Beauty and the Beast (Leeds City Varieties); Aladdin and Goldilocks and the Three Bears (New Wolsey Theatre); A Birthday for Bear (Upstairs at the Gatehouse); Twitchers! and A Force To Be Reckoned With (Mikron Theatre); BANTER JAR (The Bridge House Theatre, Maltings Theatre, The Lion and Unicorn Theatre); Lifeline R&D (The Charing Cross Theatre), Peter Pan (The Alban Arena and Roman Verulamium); The 39 Steps, Twelfth Night and Twelfth Night Live! (The Maltings Theatre), BRASS (Union Theatre), World in Progress (The Other Palace and Edinburgh Festival Fringe); UK Fleetwood Mac (UK Regional Theatre tour).
Angela Caesar

Angela Caesar

Angela is from Lancashire and trained at the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University.

Stage Credits: The Wizard of Oz (The Watermill Theatre); The Wicker Husband (The Watermill Theatre); Rags (Park Theatre); Caroline or Change (Playhouse Theatre/Chichester Festival Theatre/National Theatre); Astronaut (The Other Palace); King (Hackney Empire); Orlando and The Three Graces, Clown, Into the Forest and Magic Paintbrush (Theatre Peckham); Seven Brides For Seven Brothers and Porgy and Bess (Regents Park Open Air Theatre); The Phantom of the Opera (UK Tour); Showboat (Raymond Gubbay Productions).

Opera Credits: Aida, La Boheme, Macbeth, Tosca, Nabucco and Samson Et Dalila (Royal Opera House); Naomi, Shaw Goes Wilde, Falstaff and L’Elisir D’Amore (Pegasus Opera Company); Rusalka (English Touring Opera); Dream Lovers (Syncopation); Lucia Di Lammermoor (Baltimore Opera); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Edgar and Emily, Hansel and Gretel and Don Giovanni (Peabody Opera Theatre); The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (English National Opera).
Lee Drage

Lee Drage

Lee trained at Guildford School of Acting.

Theatre credits: All’s Well That Ends Well, Twelfth Night (Shakespeare in the Squares); Threepenny Opera (Minack Theatre); The Spanish Tragedy (Old Red Lion); Chariots of Fire
(Gielgud Theatre); Oh What A Lovely War (UK tour); The Water Engine (Old Vic Tunnels); The Hot Mikado (The Watermill Theatre); Saturday Night (Jermyn Street Theatre) and The Wonderful
Wizard of Oz (Octagon Theatre).

TV credits: Silo (Apple TV).

As a comedian, he has performed at VAULT festival, Brighton and Edinburgh Festival Fringe and was nominated for an Off West End Theatre Award for his show Shit Samaritans.
Christian Edwards

Christian Edwards

Christian created and played the satirical character West End Producer for 14 years – writing two books, over 500 articles for The Stage, producing two West End talent shows, and taking a critically acclaimed one-man show to the Edinburgh Fringe. West End Producer is currently having a well-deserved break (down), dear.

Theatre credits include: All I See is You ( Octagon Theatre & Australia); Cyrano (Northern Broadsides); The Winter’s Tale, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Secret Garden, Singin’ In The Rain (Octagon Theatre), Holy Mackerel (Eastern Angles); Les Miserables (Queen’s Theatre); The El Train (Hoxton Hall); Radio Times (The Watermill Theatre); The Snow Queen (Rose Theatre); An Inspector Calls (English Theatre Frankfurt); Oliver! (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); The Go-Between (Trafalgar Studios); Spend, Spend, Spend (The Watermill Theatre); She Stoops To Conquer, Wild Honey, Habeas Corpus, Arcadia (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth, Fantastic Mr Fox (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Bank (King’s Head); The Twits (Pilot Theatre); The Importance Of Being Earnest, Taming Of The Shrew (Oxford Shakespeare Company); Oliver Twist (Library Theatre Company); Romeo And Juliet (Stafford Gatehouse Theatre); Todd (Kabosh); Billy Liar (ATG); Three Sisters (Playhouse Theatre, London); Emma (UK Tour); Fiddler On The Roof (The Courtyard); Rasputin (Natural Theatre)

Television credits include: EastEnders (BBC), Londongrad (Amazon); Simple Things (Solitary Rain); Surrealism (BBC).

Radio credits include: Doctor Who: First Doctor, Starlight Robbery, Daleks Among Us, Persuasion, Counter Measures and River Song (Big Finish), Osiris and Robots (Sarm – Trevor Horn).

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