VIDEO: On This Day, March 10- A Star is Born: Laura Benanti Debuts as Maria in THE SOUND OF MUSIC

On this day in 1999, Richard Chamberlain and Laura Benanti joined the cast of the Broadway revival of The Sound of Music as the new Captain Von Trapp and Maria Rainer, succeeding Michael Siberry and Rebecca Luker in the roles. The two continued in the roles through the production's closing on June 20. 1999, after 533 performances.

Benanti would go on to take Broadway by storm since this high-profile debut at age 18. She recently completed a 2016 Tony nominated turn as Amalia Balash in the hit Broadway Musical, She Loves Me, and also received Outer Critics Circle, Drama League and Drama Desk Award nominations for the role.

On television, she can be seen playing the role of Alura Zor-El in the CW action drama "Supergirl". Benanti would also go on to give a critically acclaimed performance as Elsa Schrader in NBC's The Sound of Music LIVE.

She received a Drama Desk award, Outer Critics Circle Award and Tony Award nominations for her role in the Broadway production of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. She earned a 2008 Tony Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical, a Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award for her portrayal of Gypsy Rose Lee in Gypsy opposite Patti LuPone, directed by Arthur Laurents.

Other Broadway roles include The Wedding Singer, Nine starring Antonio Banderas, her Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award-nominated performance of Cinderella in Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods and her Tony nominated turn in Swing!

To celebrate Laura's starring debut, see her share the stage with fellow Tony winner, Christopher Fitzgerald, in this hilarious send-up of "Sixteen Going On Seventeen", in the clip below.