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Marni Nixon Joins Hollywood Bowl The Sound of Music

By: May. 09, 2006
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Marni Nixon--who was the singing voice for the leading ladies of several classic Hollywood musicals and who has also had a substantial stage career--has signed on to play the Mother Abbess in the upcoming Hollywood Bowl (2301 Highland Avenue) concert production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music.

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She will join the previously-announced Melissa Errico (Amour, High Society), as Maria, at the 18,000-seat Hollywood Bowl on Friday, July 28th and Sat. July 29 at 8:30 PM, and Sunday, July 30 at 7:30 PM. The production will feature the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra (with John Mauceri as conductor); it will be directed by Gordon Hunt with choreography by Kay Cole.

"Before taking her final vows, a high-spirited nun becomes the governess for a widowed Captain's seven children. She captures the children's hearts … then the Captain's. And it's the family's dangerous mountain escape from the Nazis that provides one of the most thrilling and inspirational finales in musical theater," state press notes for the show, which follows previous Hollywood Bowl presentations of Camelot, Mame, My Fair Lady and The Music Man.

Nixon famously provided the singing voice for Deborah Kerr, Audrey Hepburn and Natalie Wood in the movie versions of The King and I, My Fair Lady and West Side Story, respectively. She has appeared on Broadway in Nine, Follies, James Joyce's The Dead and The Girl in Pink Tights. She was also seen as Sister Sophia in the film version of The Sound of Music.

Immortalized in the movie adaptation starring Julie Andrews, The Sound of Music won the Tony Award for Best Musical in 1960 (and star Mary Martin won a Tony for Best Actress in a Musical). With music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and a book by Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse, The Sound of Music was revived on Broadway in 1998.

More casting for the Hollywood Bowl concert has yet to be announced.

Visit www.hollywoodbowl.org for more information.







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