The run closed June 15, 1963
- Opened
- November 16, 1959
- Closed
- June 15, 1963
- Performances
- 1,443
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 2nd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of The Sound of Music 1 more that season
| 1998 | Martin Beck Theatre Revival · Susan H. Schulman | 533 perf. |
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
Paul Lipson
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
17 of these 82 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 65 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Creative team
- Director
- Vincent J. Donehue
- Choreographer
- Joe Layton
- Producer
- Leland Hayward, Richard Halliday, Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Tony Awards 5 from 9 nominations
| Best Musical | Won |
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.
- South Pacific was the first of two musicals (the other was The Sound of Music) in which Mary Martin, who played Nellie, was seen as a Rodgers and Hammerstein heroine. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 140
- Because Neway was appearing as the Mother Abbess in the original 1959 Broadway production of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II’s The Sound of Music, she was free only on Sundays, and so the 1960 revival was given twice on two consecutive Sunday evenings. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 35
- "It was followed by a third live presentation by NBC on December 8, 1960, during the period when Mary Martin was appearing on Broadway in The Sound of Music ." Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 416
- The rich score offered a cornucopia of popular songs, including “My Favorite Things,” “Do Re Mi,” “Climb Every Mountain,” “The Lonely Goatherd,” the title song, and “Edelweiss,” perhaps the musical’s finest number. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 835
- he musical might not have the “popular appeal” of earlier works by Rodgers and Hammerstein, but of course he couldn’t have foreseen the musical’s worldwide popularity with its long runs, frequent revivals, and overwhelmingly popular film adaptation. There seems no doubt today that The Sound of Music is the team’s best… Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 837
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- No recording is held for The Sound of Music at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.