The Sound of Music News

HarperCollins Canada, 374 pages This novel puts a group of friends from London inside an Oxfordshire stately home that one of them has inherited.

The 400-passenger-capacity zeppelin of the American musical overwhelms you; there are some times critics who just ought to concede the battle and retrench elsewhere.

" One girl decided to follow her dreams and found out they offered more than she imagined.

At this late date it's tough to watch 'The Sound of Music' with an objective eye, but it's wise for us to remember that there was a time when it seemed new, fresh and delightful to Broadway audiences.That was before Robert Wise's static movie version, before 'Climb Every Mountain' became a telethon standard, and before the story of Maria Von ...

Life is looking "Up" for Amera Rizk. The 1994 Pine-Richland High School graduate served as second assistant editor on the block- buster Pixar film about a curmudgeonly old man who takes off on a South American journey by tying thousands of balloons to his house.

By Denis Droppa The setting was the Alps of Switzerland and Northern Italy, the machines were BMW's new K1300 models, and the mission was to ride as many mountain passes as we could in eight days.

A one-man play about unrequited love had no trouble finding affection at the 30th annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards, Canada's version of New York's famed Tonys.

A ravishing redheaded leading lady of the 1940s and 50s, Eleanor Parker signed a contract with Warner Bros.

Some thing you might not know about a movie you might know all too well. --- The Academy Award-winning 1965 film was inspired by an original 1959 Broadway production starring Mary Martin and Theodore Bikel.

It has been described as "Julie Andrews meets 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show,' " and if it catches on, David Wohl promises the "Sing-A-Long Sound of Music" could become an annual event.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Unleash your inner Maria -- or your inner Von Trapp or inner Mother Superior -- as the hills come alive with one campy screening of "The Sound of Music" at 7 p.m. Friday at the Capitol Center Theater, 123 Summers St.

Plans to turn the villa of the Von Trapp family made famous in the Sound of Music into a luxury hotel have been rejected by Austrian authorities amid claims the new building would have ended up a memorial to Nazism.

Hitler? He's just our black sheep... 7:00pm Thursday 18th June 2009 Comments Have your say By Faith Eckersall WHAT do YOU think of, when you think of Austria? Mountains? Hitler? The Sound of Music? Well, think again.

Today and Saturday, the Through a Child's Eyes Foundation will be presenting a community theatre production of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, "The Sound of Music," at the Jeanne Dini Theatre.

But in my phone chat with Turner, now a busy mother of four daughters and the vice chair of her city's planning commission in suburban Minneapolis, I was anxious to explore the reasons why this 1965 film continues to inspire new generations of fans.

Applause from fans of five actors famous for their roles more than 45 years ago in "The Sound of Music." Five of the seven children who played the von Trapp kids in that Oscar-winning movie are in Vermont for a series of private ceremonies honoring the real family that inspired their characters.

AUGUSTA : I came across a list of motion picture musicals recently that are considered to be the top 25 of all time.

The boys a ' David Alvarez , Trent Kowalik , Kiril Kulish a ' who share the title role in the tuner " Billy Elliot "made Tony Awards history twice tonight with their lead actor win.

Friday June 12, 2009 8:00 pm Saturday June 13, 2009 8:00 pm Sunday June 14, 2009 2:00 pm Friday June 26, 2009 8:00pm Fundraiser for Birthright of Brentwood The Vagabond Players, in collaboration with El Campanil Childrena TMs Theatre, present their production of The Sound of Music.

El Campanil Children's Theatre joins forces with The Vagabond Players to present the beloved family-friendly musical "The Sound of Music," opening tonight at the El Campanil Theatre.