The Sound of Music confirms closing date
Lizzie Guilfoyle
SIR Andrew Lloyd Webber’s production of The Sound of Music, which opened at the London Palladium on November 15, 2006, has confirmed that it will close on February 21, 2009, one week ahead of schedule.
The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical premiered on Broadway in 1959 and went on to win six Tony Awards, including Best Musical. It was first seen in London in 1961 and last revived in the capital in 1981. In 1965, the film adaptation starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director (for Robert Wise).
The current production is directed by Jeremy Sams and designed by Robert Jones, with choreography by Arlene Phillips, sound by Mick Potter, lighting by Mark Henderson and musical supervision by Simon Lee. It’s presented by Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber and David Ian, the Really Useful Group and Live Nation.
And the current cast includes Summer Strallen (as Maria), Simon MacCorkindale (Captain von Trapp) and Margaret Preece (Mother Abbess).
Connie Fisher, the production’s original Maria, will reprise the role in the show’s forthcoming national tour, which kicks off on July 26, 2009 at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff.
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