The Sound of Music

Staff

... Conductor

Frederick Dvonch

Cast

... Maria Rainer	Mary Martin
... Sister Berthe	Elizabeth Howell
... Sister Margaretta	Muriel O'Malley
... Mother Abbess	Patricia Neway
... Sister Sophia	Karen Shepard
... Captain Georg von Trapp	Theodore Bikel
... Franz	John Randolph
... Frau Schmidt	Nan McFarland
... Liesl von Trapp	Lauri Peters
... Friedrich von Trapp	Joseph Stewart
... Louisa von Trapp	Kathy Dunn
... Kurt von Trapp	Ronnie Tourso
... Brigitta von Trapp	Marilyn Rogers
... Marta von Trapp	Mary Susan Locke
... Gretl von Trapp	Evanna Lien
... Rolf Gruber	Brian Davies
... Elsa Schraeder	Marion Marlowe
... Max Detweiler	Kurt Kasznar

Tracks

This recording was reportedly made at the evening performance on Oct. 7, 1961, which was the final performance in the production of Mary Martin, Theodore Bikel, and Patricia Neway. Theodore Bikel has reportedly said that the actor who played Rolf at this performance was replacement Jon Voight rather than Brian Davies, the original Rolf. But according to contemporary accounts, Davies was still in the show on Oct. 7, 1961. He and Lauri Peters played their final performance a week later, on Oct. 14.

Comparison listening of the voice of the actor playing Rolf on this recording with other recordings of Davies and Voight —including, for Davies, the cast recording of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and a live recording of the show (both probably closer in time to this performance than the Sound of Music cast recording) and for Voight, the Columbia cast recording of the 1965 Off-Broadway production of Arthur Miller's A View From the Bridge, on which he even sings a bit — have convinced us that it is Davies on this recording.