York, Schneider, Etc. Join Hollywood Bowl Sound of Music
By: BWW News Desk Jun. 19, 2006
York (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Dessa Rose, Victor/Victoria), Schneider (Grand Hotel) and Tambor (Glengarry Glen Ross, "Arrested Development") will join the previously-announced Melissa Errico (Amour, High Society), as Maria, and Marni Nixon (James Joyce's The Dead, voice heard in My Fair Lady and other films), as the Mother Abbess. The three will play Elsa Schraeder, Captain Von Trapp and Max Detweiler, respectively.
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. 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.
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