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Transcribed and presented by Greville Watson, 2018
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Rushden Operatic Society
'The Sound of Music' - 1977
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Rushden Amateur Operatic Society
presents
The Sound of Music
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Music by RICHARD ROGERS
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Lyrics by OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN 2nd
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Book by
HOWARD LINDSAY and RUSSEL CROUSE
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| THE RITZ, RUSHDEN |
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April 25th to 30th, 1977
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| Nightly 7.30 p.m. |
| Saturday Matinee 2.30 p.m. |
Producer -
BILL PATENALL |
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The Orchestra
Under the direction of Joan Hart, ALCM |
Joan Hart
our Musical Director |
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Pauline Longland
our Assistant Musical
Director and Accompanist |
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Violins (Leader)
Clarinet
Trombone
Cello
Trumpet
Timps
Guitar
Double Bass
Oboe
Flute
Piano |
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Yvonne Bowness
A. White
Barbara Philp
R. Benning
P. Gardner
D. Gomm
R. Ruff
David Eastwood
E. Allen
S. Adams
Emily Pryor
Pauline Longland |
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Musical Numbers
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ACT ONE
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Preludium
Morning Hymn Angelus Bells
Alleluia
The Sound of Music
Maria
My Favourite Things
Do. Re. Mi.
Sixteen Going on Seventeen
The Lonely Goatherd
How Can Love Survive?
Reprise: The Sound of Music
My Favourite Things
So Long, Farewell
Nuns Processional: Morning Hymn
Climb Ev'ry Mountain |
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Nuns
Maria
Sisters Berthe, Margaretta,
Sophia and Mother Abbess
Maria
Maria and Children
Rolf and Liesl
Maria and Children
Elsa and Max
Children and Von Trapp
Children
Children
Mother Abbess |
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ACT TWO
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The Lonely Goatherd
The Sound of Music
My Favourite Things
No Way to Stop It
An Ordinary Couple
Gaudeamus Domino and
Processional, Canticle
Sixteen Going On Seventee
Edelweiss
Climb Every Mountain
Finale - The Sound of Music |
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Max and Children
Von Trapp and Children
Children and Maria
Elsa and Max
Maria and Von Trapp
Mother Abbess, Nuns
and Postulants
Maria and Liesl
Von Trapp, Maria and Children
Mother Abbess, Nuns
and Postulants
Full Company |
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Phil Maddams
"Capt. Georg
Von Trapp"
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John Stringer
"Von Schreiber"
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CHARACTERS
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MARIA
SISTER BERTHE
SISTER MARGARETTA
MOTHER ABBESS
SISTER SOPHIA
CAPT. GEORGE VON TRAPP
FRAU SCHMIDT
FRANZ |
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Judy Tomlinson
Christine Carter
Pauline Wildman
Doreen Field
Rita Yeomans
Phil Maddams
Margaret Coleman
Sam Houghton |
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CHILDREN OF VON TRAPP |
LIESL
FRIEDRICH
LOUISA
KURT
BRIGITTA
MARTA
GRETL |
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Sarah Page
Richard Lack and Stephen Tye
Julie Wilbur and Sheridan Raymond
Duncan Hope and Mark Denton
Lois Vaughan and Lorraine Jones
Susan Keech and Maxine Pell
Polly Hope and Alison Bolton |
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ROLF
ELSA
MAX
HERR ZELLER
VON SCHREIBER |
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George Farmer
Joan Vaughan
Dennis Field
John Jones
John Stringer |
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| NUNS and POSTULANTS |
Pat Bird
Mary Boyfield
Christine Carter
Jose Green
Allison Hands
Connie Holt
Pat Horn
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Miriam Joyce
Jeannette King
Janet Mould
Christine Norman
Mary Quartermain
Pauline Wildman
Rita Yeomans |
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Margaret
Coleman
"Frau Schmidt"
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| DANCERS |
Roger Clarke
Sally Massom
Jane Neville
Mike Neville
Phil Smith
Jenny Towell
Norman Towell
Kim Vaughan
Keith Vaughan
Judy Walker
Mike Walker |
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Rita Yeomans
"Sister Sophia"
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Christine Carter
"Sister Berthe"
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Pauline Wildman
"Sister Margaretta"
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Doreen Field
"Mother Abbess"
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| The Story . . . |
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The play opens at the Nonnberg Abbey where the nuns are going about their daily tasks. Maria, a postulant who has been given permission to leave the Abbey for the day, is found high on a mountain-side. She returns very late to the Abbey, where the Mother Abbess and the sisters of the order feel that Maria is not really suited to the religious life. Although sharing many enthusiasms with Maria, the Mother Abbess makes her leave the Abbey to become the temporary governess of the seven children of Captain von Trapp, a retired officer of the Austrian Navy. The Captain, a martinet since the death of this wife, has made the children, through naval discipline, into little more than machines. In spite of this Maria breaks through their reserve and teaches them to sing and enjoy life. The eldest daughter, Liesl, just discovering first love, steals out of the house to meet Rolf. Maria wins her confidence, and that of the other children. Leaving the children in Maria’s care the Captain departs—eventually returning from Vienna with his fiancée Elsa and his friend Max Detweiler, a concert impresario. The Captain is astonished to find that in his absence his children have learned to sing. He is greatly moved and realizes his tremendous affection for them and joins in their singing. Elsa induces him to give a party—at which the children sing their goodnights to the guests. Maria, frightened at the fact that she is falling in love with the Captain, runs back to the Abbey, where the Mother Abbess reproves her for trying to escape from life, telling her that she must go out and seek it.
Returning to the Trapp villa, Maria finds a bitter quarrel raging between the Captain, Elsa and Max, who hold different views regarding the impending Anschluss and the coming of the Nazis. The Captain and Elsa, realising their incompatibility, dissolve their engagement and he and Maria discover their great love for each other. Two weeks later they are married in the Abbey and on returning from their honeymoon discover that the Nazis have taken over and that even Rolf and some of their close friends are among their supporters.
Meanwhile, Max has arranged for the children to sing at the Karlzburg Festival, despite the Captain’s disapproval. The Nazis summon Captain von Trapp into their immediate service, but Maria gains time by pointing out that the whole von Trapp family must perform at the festival concert. Whilst on the stage at the concert hall, Max announces that an escort is waiting to take the Captain straight to his ship. The family reprises “So long, Farewell” and one by one they leave the stage as Max stalls the escort. They hide in the gardens of the Abbey as storm troopers search for them inside and finally make their way to freedom over Maria’s beloved mountains as the nuns wish them Godspeed.
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Scenes
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ACT ONE
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Scene 1.
Scene 2.
Scene 3.
Scene 4.
Scene 5.
Scene 6.
Scene 7.
Scene 8.
Scene 9.
Scene 10.
Scene 11.
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Nonnberg Abbey
Mountainside near the Abbey
The Office of the Mother Abbess
A Corridor in the Abbey
The Living Room of the Trapp Villa
(That afternoon)
Outside the Trapp Villa
(That evening)
Maria's Bedroom
(Later that evening)
The Terrace of the Trapp Villa
(Six weeks later)
A Hallway in the Trapp Villa
(One week later)
The Living Room
(The same evening)
A Corridor in the Abbey
The Office of the Mother Abbess
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ACT TWO
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Scene 1.
Scene 2.
Scene 3.
Scene 4.
Scene 5.
Scene 6.
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The Terrace (The same day)
A Corridor in the Abbey
(Two weeks later)
The Office of the Mother Abbess
A Cloister Overlooking the Chapel
The Living Room
(One month later)
The Concert Hall
(Three days later)
The Garden of Nonnberg Abbey
(That night) |
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| Chairman's Message |
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Our Production Team, together with a most talented cast, have worked extremely hard to make this a show you will enjoy and, I believe, you will remember for many years to come. I hope you will share my enthusiasm, both for them and for our delightful children. Of necessity, we have two teams of children who perform on alternate nights, so why not reserve a seat for yet another performance and give yourself the opportunity of seeing all of them.
Thank you most sincerely for your continued support and I hope you will return to see our future shows for many years to come.
P W Carpenter
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| Programme Sellers |
(Arrangements by Rene Welsford)
Diane Cheasman, Margaret Clark, Rose Drage, Sally Massom, Jane Neville, Judy Walker.
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| Stewards |
(Under the direction of George Mitchell)
Alan Binder, Harold Binder, Ben Catlin, Adrian House, Bert Ingram, Cliff Jeffries, Ian Lawrence, Phil Smith. |
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| Our Producer - BILL PATENALL |
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We extend a very warm welcome to Bill Patenall. Bill has worked in all types of show business. He studied at R.A.D.A. and appeared in Repertory and for the Arts Council all over England. He has made several Television appearances, which include ‘Dixon of Dock Green’ and the ‘Spycatcher’ series.
His musical roles include ‘Kings Rhapsody’ with Vanessa Lee, ‘Parasole’ with Hy Hazell, ‘Perchance to Dream’ with Marion Griraldi and ‘The Gentle Flare’ with Julie Andrews.
He won the Wol Clifford Bax Production Prize at R.A.D.A. and has been Producer with N.O.D.A. for 15 years.
Bill has recently produced ‘Robert & Elizabeth’ at the New Gordon Craig Theatre at Stevenage and ‘Wedding in Paris’ at St. Ives, Cornwall.
He is a member of the Guild of Drama Adjudicators and Musical Festivals of Great Britain – will be adjudicating at Birmingham, Sevenoaks and Cardiff this Spring.
‘The Sound of Music’ is Bill’s first production for the Society, and we hope he has enjoyed working with us as much as we have with him.
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| BERNARD PALMER |
Sadly, Bernard is no longer with us.
A Founder Member, past Stage Manager
and Chairman and Honorary Life Member,
he was a tower of strength to us all and
his passing will leave a great gap. |
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| Our Stage Assistants |
Wardrobe
Margaret Bland, Phyllis Bryant, Peggy Coles, Nancy Eady, Nellie Hart, Phyllis Smith, Pam Stock, Jean Wilbur.
Stage Staff - Manager - Len Gomm.
George Coleman, David Coleman, Duncan Clark, Geoff Bradshaw, Davis Basson, Tony Dale, David Green, Derek Hobden, David Pateman, Tom Ruff, Chriss Ruff, Ken Smith, Bill Sinfield, Brian Toby, Paul Longland.
Property Masters
Grace Berrill, Len Berrill, David Berrill, Graham Berrill, Geoff Holloway, Gordon Pateman, Christine Smith.
Electricians
Trevor Bailey, Stephen Hind, Arthur Holloman, Peter Longland, Roger Norman, Douglas Pateman, Kevin Jackson.
Call Boy - Carol Harbour.
Prompter - Pat Catlin.
Make Up Artist - Clive Durrant.
Costumes by W.A.Homburg Ltd., of Leeds.
Scenery - James Fredericks, of Weston-Super-Mare and Rushden Operatic Society Workshop. |
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Maria with the
Von Trapp Children
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Chorus of Nuns and Postulants
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Some of the Dancers
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| Acknowledgements |
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The Committee and members of the Society wish to offer their very sincere thanks to the following whose assistance and co-operation have made this production possible.
The President and Vice-Presidents for their continued support.
Messrs. Jaffa and Knighton, and the Ritz Staff, for their support.
The Rushden Working Men’s Club for the use of their premises for rehearsals.
Margaret Coleman for the use of her lounge for rehearsals.
The Northamptonshire Education Committee (Mr. M. J. Henly M.A., County Education Officer) and Mr. John Northwood, Principal of the Rushden Evening Institute.
Mr. D. Clarke, Headmaster of Alfred Street School, and Mr. Dunkley, Caretaker.
All those who have allowed us to display advertising material.
The East Northamptonshire Co-operative Society for the use of their premises for Property-making.
The Stewards and Programme Sellers.
The Nursing Sisters and St. John Ambulance for attendance at the Theatre.
The Stage Staff and all others who have worked behind the scenes, who have all contributed so much to the success of this production.
The Traders who have tken advertising space or donated pages in this programme.
Peter Dawes, Printers, 179 Mill Road, Kettering, for their great assistance in producing this Programme.
Eddie Toseland for all the help and assistance with Photographs.
The Hamlyn Group for Rehearsals and meeting facilities.
Mrs. Nellie Hart for the use of Site advertising.
Rose Drage for organising a marvellous Saturday afternoon tea for the cast.
All parties supporting us from various organisations.
To all who have assisted the Society in presenting ‘The Sound of Music’, whether or not mentioned in this programme, we say a special ‘THANK YOU’.
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