STAGE TUBE: SOUND OF MUSIC Trailer Starring Jessica Grove and Ben Davis!

Broadway veterans Jessica Grové and Ben Davis will star as Maria Rainer and Captain Georg Von Trapp in Studio Tenn Theatre Company's upcoming production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music, playing at the historic Franklin Theatre May 31-June 17.

Click on the link below for a teaser of the show!

Grové and Davis join a cast that includes some of Nashville's favorite performers, including Nan Gurley (as the Mother Abbess), Marguerite Lowell Howell (as Baroness Schrader), Matt Carlton (as Max Dettwiler) and recent Belmont University musical theater grads Kelsey Self and Douglas Waterbury-Tieman (as Liesl and Rolf). Portraying the other Von Trapp children are Jack Alcott as Friedrich, Annabelle Fox as Louisa, Mary Marguerite Hall as Brigitta, Matthew Dyra as Kurt, Virginia Richardson as Marta and Bella Higginbotham as Gretel.

The ensemble also includes Shelean Newman, David Compton, Emily Webb, Melodie Madden Adams and Linda Sue Simmons Runyeon.

Studio Tenn's managing director Jake Speck is executive producer, with company artistic director Matt Logan directing and designing the production. Choreographer is Emily Tello, with Chris Rayis as music director/conductor and Laura Matula as vocal director.

Grové has starred on Broadway in Les Miserables (Eponine), Thoroughly Modern Millie (Miss Dorothy), A Little Night Music (MrS. Anderson) and Sunday in the Park with George (Celeste). She also starred as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz at Madison Square Garden with Mickey Rooney and Ertha Kitt. Last month, Jessica played Cinderella in the third annual Show Hope benefit production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella, directed and designed by Matt Logan at the Schermerhorn with the Nashville Symphony.

Davis has starred on Broadway in some of the same shows, including Les Miserables (Javert), Thoroughly Modern Millie (Trevor Graydon), A Little Night Music (Mr. Lindquist), Knickerbocker Holiday (Brom Broeck) and Baz Luhrmann's La Boheme (Marcello).

Studio Tenn's production of The Sound of Music runs Thursday, May 31 through Sunday, June 17 at the Franklin Theatre, and tickets are on sale now at the Franklin Theatre Box Office at (615) 538-2076 or online at www.FranklinTheatre.com.

Originally built in 1937, the Franklin Theatre re-opened to the public on June 3, 2011, following a multi-year, multi-million-dollar restoration. The Main Street landmark is owned and operated by the nonprofit Heritage Foundation of Franklin and Williamson County.