Sioux Empire Community Theater presents: The Sound of Music (Orpheum)

Friday - Sunday. May 7th - 9th, 2010.

The 50th Anniversary Production!

The Sound of Music is coming to the Orpheum. Come and hear some of your favorite songs: "The Sound of Music," "My Favorite Things," "Climb Ev'ry Mountain," "Do-Re-Mi," and "Edelweiss."

The setting for The Sound of Music is Salzburg, Austria, where Maria, a postulant at Nonnberg Abbey, is too free-spirited to accept the discipline of the order easily and frequently escapes to the mountains. Thus, the Mother Abbess arranges for Maria to work as a governess for the wealthy, aristocratic Captain George Von Trapp—a widower with seven children. By adding music and outdoor expeditions to the children's normally rigorous schedule, Maria wins the children's hearts. Although Captain Von Trapp is engaged to the elegant socialite, Elsa Schraeder, through the course of the play he falls in love with Maria and eventually marries her. But it is 1938, and the Von Trapp's married life is quickly disrupted by Nazi Germany's annexation of Austria. The family has become well known as an amateur singing group, and after a final appearance at a local contest, they manage to escape and cross the mountains on foot to Switzerland. The first romance of Von Trapp's oldest daughter Liesl, unfortunately with a young Nazi, provides a bittersweet subplot.

Friday, May 7th at 8:00 PM

Saturday, May 8th at 8:00 PM

Sunday, May 9th at 2:00 PM

Tickets cost $20 and are available through the Sioux Empire Community Theater Box Office starting April 19th for the general public. Box Office Hours are Noon to 5pm Monday through Saturday. SECT Box Office Phone number 360-4800.

More information available at www.mysect.com