FAIRFIELD–I am not the official Missouri Street Theatre Archivist/Historian, but I have reviewed every mainstage show they have done. The following are the productions MST has staged over the years in the month of December: “A Christmas Carol” (2012), “Once Upon a Mattress” (2013), “Into the W
Two Central Arkansas theaters will be alive with "The Sound of Music" (music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse): Argenta Community Theater in North Little Rock, and the Lucy Lockett Cabe Theatre at Wildwood Park for the Arts in Little Rock.
Lydia Milosavljevic as Maria, surrounded by the Von Trapp children. Photo: Helen Musa.
Musical theatre / “The Sound of Music”, co-directed by Anthony Swadling and Alison Newhouse. At The Q, Queanbeyan, until March 21. Reviewed by
BILL STEPHENS
FROM the moment Willum Hollier-Smith took the stage to welcome the audience and announce that he wouldn’t be playing Kurt at this performance (he was on crutches and did manage to sing beautifully as the Altar Boy later in the show) the audience sensed that this production was going to be special. And indeed it was
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Based on a memoir by Maria Von Trapp, “The Sound of Music” has been an audience magnet since its first Broadway performance in 1959. The combination of a love story involving worldly nuns, cute kids who sing like angels at the drop of a hat, nasty Nazis and one of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s best scores continues to prove as irresistible as ever, but especially as presented in this production where everyone on stage