Shows · The Sound of Music · Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, 1959
The Sound of Music, 1959
Opened November 16, 1959
Closed June 15, 1963
1,443 performances
Original
Broadway
5 Tony Awards
Of the productions that opened in the 1950s, this had the 2nd longest run.
Other stagings of The Sound of Music 3 more
Who was in it82 named
Joanne Birks
Patricia Brooks
June Card
Dorothy Dallas
Ceil Delli
Kathy Dunn
Luce Ennis
Barbara George
Stefan Gierasch
Lucas Hoving
Elizabeth Howell
Patricia Kelly
Maria Kova
Evanna Lien
Mary Susan Locke
Shirley Mendonca
Kathy Miller
Lorna Nash
Keith Prentice
Nancy Reeves
Marilyn Rogers
Bernice Saunders
Connie Sharman
Karen Shepard
Kirby Smith
William Snowden
Joseph Stewart
Tatiana Troyanos
Mimi Vondra
Sue Yaeger
Jeannie Carson
Jen Nelson
Maureen Bailey
Jay Barney
Richard Carafa
Helen Feit
Dan Ferrone
Catherine Gale
Geraldine Gale
Ann Gardner
Barbara Gregory
Sarah Hageman
Tommy Leap
Valerie Lee
Sara Letton
Nadine Lewis
Milton Luchan
Marissa Mason
Laura Michaels
Nita Novy
Lizabeth Pritchett
Lu Ann Ragle
Donald Scott
Leslie Smith
Royston Thomas
Webb Tilton
Ronnie Tourso
Peter van Hattum
Jay Velie
Gina Viglione
Jon Voight
Arthur Warren
Connie Webber
Mitzi Wilson
Creative team
- Director
- Vincent J. Donehue
- Choreographer
- Joe Layton
- Producer
- Leland Hayward, Richard Halliday, Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II
Tony Awards 5 from 9 nominations
Recordings 4 released while this run was on
67 more exist for other runs of this show: see The Sound of Music for all of them.
Around this production
"Edelweiss" was the last song Hammerstein ever wrote. He died of cancer nine months after the show opened. Many people believe it\'s a traditional Austrian folk song. It isn\'t.
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