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The Sound of Music is a very iconic piece of work from the stage to the big screen to the TV screen. It is very well known due to the success of the film adaptation. It has been credited as one of the most iconic movies surpassed only by Gone with the wind.
The Sound of Music originally aired on Broadway on November 16, 1959, with music by Rodgers and lyrics by Hammerstein. And in 1965 the film musical adaptation starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer was released which would go on to receive five Academy Awards. Since then, the songs have become very well renowned, especially “Do-Re-Mi”. It was, in fact, based on a memoir by Maria von Trapp, The Story of the Trapp Family Singers. Set in the 1930’s fore and amid “Anshluss” the time when the Nazis had annexed Austria. And since its original Broadway production it has been through numerous revivals and productions.
The Sound of Music indeed was based on an actual family. More over based on writings by Maria Von Trapp’s book The Story of the Trapp Family Singers, the play, however, received many changes. Such included the number of children within the von Trapp family from actually being 10 children and not seven and even the sexes, ages, and names were altered. She also did not fall in love with Georg von Trapp but instead the children. When the time came for her to marry him she became very unsure of whether or not she could candidly discard her religious calling. They also wedded in 1927, being eleven years before the von Trapp family was forced to flee from Austria, not just antecedently to the Nazi incursion of Austria. And to the matter where the play ends with the family climbing the Alps, this is also incorrect. In fact, the family didn’t even escape to Switzerland but to Italy, and they didn’t climb over mountains but frankly traveled by train. Lastly, when it came to Maria, she wasn’t quite the sweet, gentle hearted person as portrayed. Veritably, she was known to have random spurts of outrage



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