By Max Wilk
The Sound of tune used to be the final – and such a lot profitable – collaboration of 2 giants of the musical theater, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein. having fun with a protracted run on Broadway after which reworked right into a significant hit film--recently reissued in a fortieth anniversary variation on DVD with new pictures – The Sound of song continues to be one of the such a lot produced musicals by way of specialist and beginner businesses round the world.This publication tells the entire tale of the making of the convey, from the 1st tough principles in the course of the tryouts, fantastic tuning, and eventual triumph – all from an eyewitness to the occasions themselves. Wilk brings a musical theater historian's eye to the paintings, together with his passionate involvement as a witness to this heritage. For an individual and everybody who has ever overjoyed to The Sound of tune, this booklet should be a needs to.
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I remember that the night before the company left New York to open in Detroit was a Sunday,” said Anna Crouse. “So it was decided to use the LuntFontanne sets to do a run-through, and they invited a preview audience, including Mary, who, of course, had never seen the show from the front of the house. And at the intermission, we couldn’t find Mary. She was down on all fours, feeling around the floor where she’d been sitting. ’ “Isn’t that wonderful? 5 Maria weds the Captain at Nonnberg Abbey surrounded by familiar faces and a set designed in the grand tradition by Oliver Smith.
You have to look for life, for the life you were meant to lead. ” Hammerstein’s lyric had a verse to begin with, and two stanzas, or choruses, to follow. When he brought it to Rodgers, who set the lyric to a very impressive musical line, the team decided that the two stanzas were strong enough, that they expressed enough to stand alone, without the verse. That is how the stanzas have remained ever since, moving the audience as deeply as they do. When Sister Gregory received a manuscript copy of Hammerstein’s lyric, she wrote back to Mary Martin, “It drove me to the Chapel.
The October 13 opening in Boston was just around the corner, and “there was chopping and changing scenes, a constant quest, if not for perfection, then at least for the promise of it,” said Bikel. “Donehue and Joe Layton did the arranging and the rearranging. ” Hammerstein, having undergone his surgery, did not arrive in Boston to rejoin the show until it was in its second week of the run. By that time, the Boston reviews were in. Eliot Norton, the respected dean of the critics, hadn’t cared for the show very much; his Boston Herald Sunday review would be another early example of a long line of negative notices: Musically, this is one of the grandest of Broadway shows; dramatically, it is weak.