The hills will be alive again this fall in a new North American tour of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music, which is set to launch September 5-6 at the Stanley Theatre in Utica, New York. Directed by Tony winner Jack O'Brien, the tour will continue into 2026, playing multi-week and week-long engagements.
O'Brien also directed the musical's most recent tour of the U.S., which ran in 2015-2016. Danny Mefford will also return as choreographer.
The cast will be led by Cayleigh Capaldi (Titanique) as Maria Rainer, Kevin Earley (Old Friends) as Captain Georg von Trapp, Tony nominee Christiane Noll (Ragtime) as Mother Abbess, Nicholas Rodriguez (Company) as Max Detweiler, Kate Loprest (First Date) as Elsa Schraeder, Ariana Ferch as Liesl von Trapp, and Ian Coursey as Rolf Gruber. Additional casting will be announced at a later date.
“A few years ago, I was part of a group of collaborative artists who, almost inadvertently, stumbled on original conceptions for the stage mounting of The Sound of Music that had never found their way into production," O'Brien said in an earlier statement. "We felt as if we were awakening Sleeping Beauty herself, and the results exposed a version of this classic virtually unknown before, and yet more dramatic, more detailed, more rapturous, and more touching than any we had experienced. It is with extreme enthusiasm and a keen sense of anticipation those same artists once more return to complete the work we began, and give this most beloved of all musicals the creative facelift it deserves. We truly believe the original authors would be thrilled. And we believe you will be, too!”
The Sound of Music features music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, and a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. Loosely based on the true story of the Von Trapp Family Singers, the beloved musical follows Maria Rainer, who becomes a governess to the seven children of a widowed naval commander in Austria just as the Nazi party is coming into power. The original Broadway production in 1959 was built around Mary Martin's performance as Maria, but the musical is best known from its 1965 film adaptation starring Julie Andrews.
The classic Rodgers and Hammerstein score includes “Edelweiss,” ”My Favorite Things,” “Climb Ev’ry Mountain,” “Do-Re-Mi,” “Sixteen Going On Seventeen,” “The Lonely Goatherd,” and “The Sound of Music.”
The creative team will also include associate direction by Matt Lenz, associate choreography by Mark Myars, set design by Douglas W. Schmidt, costume design by Jane Greenwood, lighting design by Natasha Katz, sound design by Kai Harada, musical supervision by Andy Einhorn, hair and wig design by Tom Watson, and casting by The Telsey Office's Rachel Hoffman.
Concord Theatricals and NETworks Presentations are producing.
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