The Sound of Music

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The Sound of Music is a beloved mid-20th-century stage musical and film about the von Trapp family, renowned for its memorable songs and enduring popularity.

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instanceOf Broadway musical
film
musical film
stage musical
basedOn Maria von Trapp
The Story of the Trapp Family Singers
BroadwayOpeningYear 1959
BroadwayProducer Howard Lindsay
Leland Hayward
Richard Halliday
BroadwayTonyAward Best Musical
BroadwayTonyAwardYear 1960
composer Richard Rodgers NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
culturalImpact one of the most popular musicals of the 20th century
filmAcademyAward Best Director
Best Film Editing
Best Music, Scoring of Music, Adaptation or Treatment
Best Picture
Best Sound
filmAcademyAwardsYear 1966
filmCaptainActor Christopher Plummer
filmDirector Robert Wise
filmFormat Todd-AO
filmMariaActress Julie Andrews
filmProducer Robert Wise
filmReleaseYear 1965
filmRuntimeMinutes 174
filmScreenwriter Ernest Lehman
filmStudio 20th Century Fox
firstPerformanceCity New York City
firstPerformanceDate 1959-11-16
firstPerformancePlace Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
genre biographical film
drama
musical
romantic musical
hasCharacter Baroness Elsa Schraeder
Captain Georg von Trapp in The Sound of Music
surface form: Captain Georg von Trapp

Liesl
surface form: Liesl von Trapp

Maria Rainer
Max Detweiler
Mother Abbess
hasSong Climb Ev'ry Mountain
Do-Re-Mi
Edelweiss
Maria (song)
My Favorite Things
Sixteen Going on Seventeen
So Long, Farewell
Something Good
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surface form: The Sound of Music (song)
historicalEventContext Anschluss of Austria
surface form: Anschluss
language English
lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II NERFINISHED
notableFor enduring popularity
memorable songs
notableTheme family
love
music
resistance to Nazism
originalBroadwayCaptainActor Theodore Bikel
originalBroadwayMariaActress Mary Martin
settingLocation Austria
Salzburg
subject von Trapp family
timePeriodSetting late 1930s

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Maria (from "The Sound of Music") appearsIn The Sound of Music
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Maria (from "The Sound of Music") appearsIn The Sound of Music
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Do-Re-Mi appearsInFilm The Sound of Music
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Something Good associatedFranchise The Sound of Music
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The Lonely Goatherd associatedFranchise The Sound of Music
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Something Good basedOn The Sound of Music
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I Have Confidence basedOnWork The Sound of Music
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Robert Wise directed The Sound of Music
20th Century Fox distributed The Sound of Music
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The Lonely Goatherd featuredIn The Sound of Music
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The Lonely Goatherd featuredIn The Sound of Music
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Sixteen Going on Seventeen featuredInFilm The Sound of Music
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Something Good featuredOn The Sound of Music
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Something Good firstAppearanceInWork The Sound of Music
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My Favorite Things fromAct The Sound of Music
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Edelweiss fromMusical The Sound of Music
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I Have Confidence includedIn The Sound of Music
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So Long, Farewell includedIn The Sound of Music
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So Long, Farewell includedIn The Sound of Music
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The Lonely Goatherd includedIn The Sound of Music
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The Lonely Goatherd includedIn The Sound of Music
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Do-Re-Mi includedOnSoundtrack The Sound of Music
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Do-Re-Mi includedOnSoundtrack The Sound of Music
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So Long, Farewell musical The Sound of Music