Guide to 'The Sound of Music' on Broadway starring Jasmine Amy Rogers

Inspired by the memoirs of the real Maria von Trapp, The Sound of Music is the story of Maria, a novice nun in Salzburg, Austria in the late 1930s. The Mother Abbess suspects the high-spirited Maria isn’t suited to the religious life and sends her to be a governess for the seven children of widowed naval hero Captain Georg von Trapp. After a frosty start, Maria wins over the von Trapps. However, the political climate in Austria is highly charged following the Nazi takeover, leaving the family to make difficult decisions for their future.

Starting March 23, 2027, The Sound of Music plays at the Vivian Beaumont Theater in Lincoln Center, located at 150 West 65th St. on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The Beaumont seats 1,080 audience members, and The Sound of Music arrives following Lincoln Center Theater's fall production of A Few Good Men.

The Sound of Music generally runs about 2 hours and 30 minutes, including an intermission.

The Sound of Music is a family-friendly show recommended for ages 5+. Please note that children under 4 are not permitted in Broadway theatres.

The Sound of Music plays from March 23 to July 18, 2027. The show generally plays eight performances a week, with two shows on Wednesdays and Saturdays and no performance on Mondays.

The Sound of Music opened on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on November 16, 1959, with Mary Martin as Maria and Theodore Bikel as Captain von Trapp. The original production played for 1,443 performances.

Six years later, the iconic 1965 film version, starring Julie Andrews, premiered in 1965.

The 2027 Sound of Music Broadway revival starts performances at the Vivian Beaumont Theater on March 23.

The Sound of Music has a score by Richard Rodgers (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics), whose previous hits included Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, and The King and I. Rodgers and Hammerstein are one of the most influential musical theatre writing teams of all time. The Sound of Music was their final collaboration, as Hammerstein died nine months after it opened.

The show also features a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. Aside from The Sound of Music, Lindsay and Crouse are best known for the play Life with Father.

The Sound of Music is led by Jasmine Amy Rogers as Maria. She earned a Tony Award nomination for her Broadway debut as Betty Boop in BOOP! The Musical in 2023, and she went on to play Olive in The 25th Annual Putnam Spelling Bee and Queenie in The Wild Party off Broadway. In fall 2026, she plays Ericka in School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play.

Additional casting has yet to be announced.

The Sound of Music features the following cast of von Trapps and other characters:

• Maria Rainer: A vivacious young woman who wants to be a nun, but has her vocation challenged when she is sent to become a governess.
• Georg von Trapp: The stern von Trapp patriarch who mellows as Maria brings warmth and music back into his household.
• Mother Abbess: The wise and kindly head of the convent, who suspects that Maria’s talents may be better suited elsewhere.
• Liesl von Trapp: The eldest von Trapp child, aged "16 going on 17," and in the middle of her first romance.
• Friedrich, Louisa, Kurt, Brigitta, Marta, and Gretl von Trapp: The six younger von Trapp children, ranging in age from 5-14. They're all smart, mischievous, and adorable, and their energy matches Maria’s own.
• Elsa Schraeder: A glamorous and wealthy baroness with whom the Captain has a relationship.
• Max Detweiler: A family friend and ambitious concert producer.
• Rolf Gruber: Liesl’s love interest, a telegram delivery boy with an interest in the Nazi Party.
• Sisters Margaretta, Berthe, and Sophia: A chorus of nuns, all with conflicting ideas about Maria.
• Franz: The von Trapps’ butler.
• Frau Schmidt: Their housekeeper.
• Herr Zeller: The local head of the Nazi Party.

How many of the songs from The Sound of Music can you sing? A couple iconic tunes were added for the movie but have since been incorporated into many productions of the stage show, as noted below.

The exact song list for the 2027 revival has yet to be confirmed, and this article will be updated once it is released.

Act 1

• "Preludium"
• "The Sound of Music"
• "Maria"
• "I Have Confidence" (from the film)
• "My Favorite Things"
• "Do-Re-Mi"
• "Sixteen Going on Seventeen"
• "The Lonely Goatherd"
• "How Can Love Survive"
• "The Sound of Music (Reprise)"
• "Ländler"
• "So Long, Farewell"
• "Morning Hymn"
• "Climb Ev'ry Mountain"

Act 2

• "My Favorite Things (Reprise 2)"
• "No Way to Stop It"
• "An Ordinary Couple" (sometimes replaced with "Something Good," from the film)
• "Gaudeamus Domino"
• "Maria" (reprise)
• "Confitemini Domino"
• "Sixteen Going on Seventeen (Reprise)"
• "Do-Re-Mi (Reprise)"
• "Edelweiss"
• "So Long, Farewell (Reprise)"
• "Finale Ultimo"

The Sound of Music has won numerous stage and screen awards over the years, and the 2027 production will be eligible for Tony Awards and other honors in the spring.

• 1960 Tony Awards: The original production of The Sound of Music won five Tony Awards, including Best Musical – in a tie with Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick’s Fiorello – and Best Actress in a Musical for Mary Martin.
• 1998 Tony Awards: The first Broadway revival was nominated for Best Musical Revival.
• 1966 Academy Awards: The iconic 1965 movie version won five Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director (Robert Wise). Julie Andrews was nominated for Best Actress but lost to Julie Christie for Darling – however, Andrews had won the year before for Mary Poppins.

The five-time Oscar-winning Sound of Music movie, starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, came out in 1965 and remains a global phenomenon. It is one of the most iconic movie musicals of all time — who can forget the image of Julie Andrews on the mountain with her arms outstretched?

In 2013, NBC aired a live television performance of The Sound of Music starring Carrie Underwood, Stephen Moyer, and Audra McDonald.

Learning more about The Sound of Music is easy as do-re-mi with these fun facts.

• Original director Vincent J. Donehue initially conceived The Sound of Music as a play with songs from the von Trapps’ own repertoire. However, it was later agreed that it should be a musical vehicle for Mary Martin with an original score.
• Many people think "Edelweiss" is an actual Austrian folk song, but it was written for The Sound of Music! In fact, neither the song nor the musical as a whole were well-received in Austria at first, but its popularity has grown as Sound of Music filming locations became major tourist attractions.
• In real life, the eldest von Trapp child was a boy called Rupert. His siblings were named Agathe, Maria, Werner, Hedwig, Johanna, and Martina.
• The seven children in the original Broadway production were nominated collectively for Best Featured Actress in a Musical, including the two boys. (The award was won by Patricia Neway, who played the Mother Abbess.)
• The nuns’ music is a highlight of the show. Richard Rodgers did his research at Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York, where Mother Morgan, head of the music department, invited him to a concert of religious music she conducted. Instead of an overture, the show opens with the Catholic prayer “Dixit Dominus” set to music.
• Lincoln Center has previously presented productions of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel (directed by Nicholas Hytner) and South Pacific and The King and I (both directed by Bartlett Sher).

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