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Rodgers & Hammerstein
The Sound Of Music (Original Broadway Cast)

Album UK 1962 on CBS label
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Made in England. Recording first published in 1959. The following notes relate to the original 1959 issue:- A Rodgers and Hammerstein Records, Inc. Production (R) "Columbia" "Masterworks" (C) 1959 Richard Rogers (sic), Oscar Hammerstein 2nd, Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse Title as it appears on spine of Gatefold sleeve: KOS 5450 The Sound Of Music (Rogers & Hammerstein) Mary Martin And The Original Broadway Cast SAPG 60001 On the label KOS 2020 and SAPQ 60001 are printed Suggested by "The Trapp Family Singers" by Maria Augusta Trapp. Theodore Bikel appears by courtesy of Elektra Records. Marilyn Rogers appears credited on front of sleeve, inside sleeve name appears as Marilyn Robers. Notes not on release: Tracklisting inside Gatefold sleeve lists performers by name only, liner notes & photos inside sleeve mention the main character names for the respective performers, the [ ] listed below with the respective performer provides additional character's names not provided in the tracklisting or liner notes of this Original Broadway Cast recording. "The Sound of Music" opened on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on November 16, 1959, and ran for 1,443 performances. The production shared the Tony Award for Best Musical with Fiorello!. It also won for Best Actress in a Musical (Mary Martin), Best Featured Actress in a Musical (Patricia Neway), Best Scenic Design of a Musical (Oliver Smith), and Best Musical Direction. And it was nominated for Best Featured Actor in a Musical (both Theodore Bikel and Kurt Kasznar) and Best Director of a Musical (Vincent J. Donehue). The entire children's cast was nominated for Best Featured Actress category as a single nominee, even though two children were boys. The original Broadway cast album has since sold three million copies. The Columbia Masterworks LP was released in 1959 (Stereo edition KOS 2020). 1st release is in a Gatefold sleeve with drawing of a guitar on the front, a photo of Mary Martin and the children on the back and extensive notes and photos of the production inside. This was Columbia's first cast album issued in a Gatefold cover and carrying the KOL/KOS prefix. In the mid 1960s Columbia pressed additional LPs using a standard sleeve with the photo of Mary and the kids on the front and re-printing the synopsis on the back. The catalog number remained the same.

Musicians

	Rodgers & Hammerstein , US album by
	Trude Rittman arranged by, choral arrangements by
	Frederick Dvonch , leader, musical director
	Oscar Hammerstein II voc, 1895-1960 US lyrics by
	Robert Russell Bennett , 1894-1981 US orchestrated by, orchestration by
	Joe Layton , 1931-1994 US other, musical numbers staged by
	Unknown Artist , orchestra, performer, nuns
	Mary Martin voc, 1913-1990 US performer, maria
	Patricia Neway voc, 1919-2012 US performer, mother abbess
	Elizabeth Howell voc, 1914-1999 US performer, sister berthe
	Muriel O'Malley , performer, sister margaretta
	Karen Shepard , performer, sister sophia
	Marilyn Rogers , performer, children, brigitta
	William Snowden , performer, children, friedrich
	Evanna Lien , performer, children, gretl
	Joseph Stewart , performer, children, kurt
	Lauri Peters voc, *1943 US performer, children, liesl, performer, liesl
	Kathy Dunn , performer, children, louisa
	Mary Susan Locke , performer, children, marta
	Brian Davies , *1938 GB performer, rolf gruber
	Marion Marlowe voc, 1929-2012 US performer, elsa schraeder
	Kurt Kasznar , 1913-1979 AT performer, max detweiler
	Theodore Bikel voc, g, 1924-2015 AT performer, captain von trapp
	The Sound Of Music Original Broadway Cast , performer

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