Marni Nixon Joins Hollywood Bowl The Sound of Music
By: BWW News Desk May. 09, 2006
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.
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.Videos