The Sound of Music

... Director	Vincent J. Donehue
... Musical Numbers Staging	Joe Layton

Cast

... Maria Rainer	Mary Martin
... Mother Abbess	Patricia Neway
... Captain Georg von Trapp	Theodore Bikel
... Liesl von Trapp	Lauri Peters
... Rolf Gruber	Brian Davies
... Elsa Schraeder	Marion Marlowe
... Max Detweiler	Kurt Kasznar
... Sister Berthe	Elizabeth Howell
... Sister Margaretta	Muriel O'Malley
... Sister Sophia	Karen Shepard

Act One

Act Two

Additional Musical Numbers Lists

These song lists document any changes that the production went through aside from the opening night song list.

• Boston Song List (10/12/1959)

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The public's interest in seeing this Rodgers and Hermmerstein musical starring Mary Martin was so intense that there were complaints in the Philadelphia press about Rodgers and Hammerstein having consistently chosen to try out their shows in Boston rather than Philadelphia.

Main Run

• Lunt-Fontanne Theatre (New York, NY)
  11/16/1959 - 11/3/1962 [On layoff July 25, 1960 - Aug. 6, 1960; Dec. 19-24, 1960; and July 3 - 15, 1961.]
• Mark Hellinger Theatre (New York, NY)
  11/6/1962 - 6/15/1963

Tryout

• Shubert Theatre (New Haven, CT)
  10/5/1959 - 10/10/1959 [Preview on October 3.]
• Shubert Theatre (Boston, MA)
  10/14/1959 - 11/7/1959 [Preview on October 13.]

Commercial Recordings

• Original Broadway Cast (1959)
  Mary Martin , Theodore Bikel , Patricia Neway , Kurt Kasznar , Marion Marlowe

Private Recordings

• Original Broadway Cast (1961)
  Mary Martin , Elizabeth Howell , Muriel O'Malley , Patricia Neway , Karen Shepard

Broadcast Recordings

• No broadcast audio listed yet.

Archival Recordings

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