Programme 1979 – The Sound of Music

THE HASTINGS OPERATIC SOCIETY INC.

presents

The Sound of Music

HASTINGS MUNICIPAL THEATRE
JUNE 16 – JUNE 23, 1979

NAPIER MUNICIPAL THEATRE
JULY 5 – JULY 7, 1979

SYNOPSIS OF SCENES

ACT 1
Scene 1   Nonnberg Abbey
Scene 2   Mountainside near the Abbey
Scene 3   A hallway in the Abbey
Scene 4   The office of the Mother Abbess the next morning
Scene 5   The road outside the Abbey
Scene 6   The living room of the Trapp Villa that afternoon
Scene 7   Hallway in the Trapp Villa
Scene 8   Maria’s bedroom later that evening
Scene 9   A hallway in the Trapp Villa
Scene 10   The terrace of the Trapp Villa six weeks later
Scene 11   A hallway in the Trapp Villa one week later
Scene 12   The living room the same evening
Scene 13   A corridor in the Abbey
Scene 14   The office of the Mother Abbess three days later

ACT II
Scene 1   The terrace the same day
Scene 2   A corridor in the Abbey two weeks later
Scene 3   The office of the Mother Abbess
Scene 4   A cloister overlooking the Chapel
Scene 5   The living room one month later
Scene 6   The concert hall three days later
Scene 7   The garden of Nonnberg Abbey that night

MUSICAL NUMBERS

ACT 1

Preludium:   Dixit Dominus, Morning Hymn, Alleluia – Nun’s Chorus
The Sound of Music   Maria
Maria   Mother Abbess, Sister Berthe, Sister Sophia Sister Margaretta
My Favourite Things   Maria and Mother Abbess
Do-re-mi   Maria and Children
Sixteen Going on Seventeen   Rolf and LeisI
The Lonely Goat herd   Maria and Children
How Can Love Survive?   Elsa and Max
Reprise: The Sound of Music   Children, von Trapp
So Long, Farewell   Children
Nun’s Processional:   Morning Hymn   Nun’s Chorus
Climb Ev’ry Mountain   Mother Abbess

ACT II

The Lonely Goatherd   Max and Children
The Sound of Music   Captain von Trapp and Children
Reprise:   My Favourite Things   Maria and Children
No Way to Stop It   Captain von Trapp, Elsa and Max
Something Good   Maria and von Trapp
Gaudeamus Domino   Nun’s Chorus
Processional   Nun’s Chorus
Canticle:   Confitemini Domini   Nun’s Chorus
Reprise:   Sixteen Going on Seventeen   Maria and Leisl
Reprise:   Do-re-mi   Maria, von Trapp and Children
The Concert:   Do-re-mi   Maria, von Trapp and Children
Edelweis   von Trapp, Maria and Children
Reprise:   So Long Farewell   von Trapp, Maria and Children
Climb Ev’ry Mountain   Mother Abbess and Chorus

The Sound of Music

Maria Rainer is a postulant at the Nonnberg Abbey in Austria. Although she makes a sincere effort to conform to the code of behaviour expected of a postulant, her joyful exuberance and her love of nature and music, always seem to land her in trouble. The understanding Mother Abbess realises that Maria is not yet ready for the diciplines [disciplines] of religious life and so she sends her to act as temporary Governess to the children of Captain Georg von Trapp, a retired officer of the Austrian Navy.

When Maria arrives at the Villa she is shocked to find that the children have been brought up in an atmosphere of strict Naval discipline and have become little more than automatons. Since the death of their mother they have not experienced the joys of childhood. Maria, determines to remedy this by imparting to them some of the love of music and nature that she holds so dear. Captain von Trapp objects strongly to the alterations to the children’s way of life and so all her plans have to be carried out without his knowledge.

Maria teaches the children to sing and enjoy themselves and in the process of giving them their first taste of happiness for many years, earns their complete love and devotion. Leisl, the eldest child, has fallen in love with Rolf Gruber, the telegram message boy, and in her confusion she seeks the confidence and guidance of Maria.

The Captain intends to remarry and so visits Vienna to bring his finance Elsa Schraeder to meet his family and friends. The Captain and Elsa, with a family friend, Max Detweiler, return to find the children and Maria playing and singing. The Captain is astounded at this but then, caught by the beauty of the children singing and their new vitality, relaxes and allows his love to show through.

The new character that the Captain displays convinces Maria that she has fallen in love with him and in her bewilderment she flees to the Abbey to seek the advice of Mother Abbess who persuades her to return to the Trapp Villa.

The threat of German invasion starts to mount and Elsa and the Captain disagree over their different attitudes to her “anschluss” and their engagement is dissolved.

Captain von Trapp and Maria recognise their love and two weeks later they are married in the abbey. They return from their honeymoon to find that the Germans have invaded Austria and that many of the able-bodied men of the district including Rolf Gruber, have openly shown their support for the Nazis. Leisl is broken-hearted at this and Maria does her best to comfort her.

The Captain is summoned to Berlin to join the German Navy, but is granted a postponement until after the music festival where the family is due to sing. The family is escorted to the concert hall and as they sing their final song they each make their separate exits, not to the waiting German car, but to the sanctuary of the Abbey. They hide in the Abbey until their searchers have passed and then with the blessing of the Nuns, they escape over the mountains they have learned to love so well, to the safety of Switzerland.

THE HASTINGS OPERATIC SOCIETY INC.
By Arrangement with Chappell & Co. New Zealand Ltd.

PRESENTS

The Sound of Music

Lyrics By:   OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II
Book By:   LINDSAY & CROUSE
Music By:   RICHARD RODGERS
Suggested By:   “THE TRAPP FAMILY SINGERS”
By MARIA AUGUSTA TRAPP

Musical Director:   NANETTE ROBERTS
Producer:   SADIE BROWN
Choreographer:   GLENDA RICKARD

Cast in Order of Appearance
Maria Rainer   Bev Ward
Mother Abbess   Maureen Brady
Eva Bennison
Sister Berthe   Ruth Cunliffe
Sister Margaretta   Mary Harris
Sister Sophia   Annette Murray
Capt. Georg von Trapp   John Newland
Franz   Pat Webb
Frau Schmidt   Greta Hawtin

Children of Capt. von Trapp
Liesl   Caroline Lowry
DO GROUP
Friedrich   Timothy Webb
Louisa   Elizabeth Jones
Kurt   Bruce Doig
Brigitta   Maria Shand
Marta   Leanne O’Sullivan
Gretl   Jennifer Nisbet
RE GROUP
Friedrich   Greg Carlyon
Louisa   Megan Treacher
Kurt   Roderick Gay
Brigitta   Lisa Taylor
Marta   Tracey Murray
Gretl   Katrina Crawford

Rolf Gruber   Bruce Allen
Elsa Schraeder   Elizabeth Palmer
Max Detweiler   John Doig
Herr Zeller   Brian Overend
Baron Elberfeld   Laurie O’Donoghue
Admiral von Schreiber   Bernard Riley

Nun’s Chorus:
Diana Brooker, Jean Campbell, Ruth Cunliffe, Helen Date, Mary Harris, Greta Hawtin, Barbara Jones, Annette Murray, Beverley Nisbet, Margaret Percy, Nanette Roberts, Staveley Tankersley, Olwyn Walker, Anne Wallace.

Postulants:
Janice Arthur, Genieve Ingram.

Novices:
Linda Drain, Sue Walker, Kathleen Rodgers,

Concert Prize Winners:
Staveley Tankersiey, Sue Walker, Anne Nisbet.

Guards:
Robert Lavery, Ben Marriott, Paddy Tankersley

ORCHESTRA
Conductor:   Bob Gowing
Piano:   Trish Loader
1st Violins:   Charlie Jukes
Cedric Thomsen
Stuart Myres
2nd Violins:  Wyn Bickerstaff
John Hawtin
Cello:   Meg Trotter-Davidson
Double Bass:  Leon Speakman
Clarinets:   Alan Meakin
John Reed
Trumpets:   Stu Boston
Lawrie Moloney
Trombone:   Wayne Myhill
Oboe:   Brenda Overend
Flute:   Mary Hodgetts
French Horn:   Mike Winter
Percussion:   Tony Prebensen

PRODUCTION PERSONNEL
Stage Director:
Cedric Wright
Stage Manager:
Lindsay Craig
Assistant Stage Managers:
Syd Taylor
Pearce Williams
Stage Crew:
Ross Tattle, Oliver Christoffersen, Ron Walker, Steven Stuart, Derek Rolls, Stuart Doig, Jeff Bell, David Austin, James Turi, Robin Johnston.
FLY FLOOR
Derek Rolls, Murray Bridges, Roel Crasborn, Richard Tankersley, Vin Duggan
HOUSE MANAGER
Eric Reay.
FRONT OF HOUSE
Len Willcox, Aub Merrall, Adrian Brown, Ken Shirras, Barbara Morris, Kathryn Doig, Jean Hill, Peggy McCathry, Wendy Pallesen, Tracy Nicholson, Janeve Rohrs, Moira Reay, Anthea Raill, Kirsty Whyte, Lynette Gordon, Robyn Duggan, Belinda Percy, Claire Percy, Anne Nisbet, Andrea Brewer, Gill Greig, Ruth Amner, Christine Shirras, Allison Bailey, Sarah Hope, Allison Shirras, Karen Clay, Sarah Hope, Sheryl Gullery.
PUBLICITY
Elizabeth Palmer, Sybil Reay.
LIGHTING SUPERVISOR
Cedric Wright.
WARDROBE MISTRESS
Sybil Reay
Assisted by
Jean Campbell and Members.
DRESSERS
Maisie Kyle, Judy Taylor, Margaret Falconer, Maria Morgan, Yvonne Whitburn Beth Degerholm, Sandra Apperley, Barbara O’Sullivan, Shirley McMillan, Maureen O’Donoghue, Jean Davy, Judith Rolls, Audrey London, Ngaire Shand, Geraldine Crawford, Elaine Treacher, Barbara Dean.
MAKE-UP
Minnie Wright, Dawn McCowatt, Brian Overend, Julie Loader, Mandy Taylor, Debbie Lucas, Fiona Cudby, Jeannette Murray, Karen Wright, Teresa Wright, Beryl Ritchie, Trish Green
PROPERTIES
Jeannie Hall, Faye Nugent, Jeannette McMillan.
PROMPT
Diana Furness.
REHEARSAL OFFICIAL
Maisie Kyle.
SUPPERS
Monique Mooren, Everlyn Overend, Gillian Walker, Carla Crasborn and friends.
CALL STEWARDS
Leah Hawtin, Sally Couch, Laki Georgopoulos.

OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY
Patron:   Cedric Wright
President:   Pearce Williams
Vice-President:  Len Willcox
Secretary-Treasurer:   Eric Reay
Committee:
Sybil Reay, Jean Campbell, Oliver Christoffersen, Lindsay Craig, Bernard Riley, Pat Webb

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Campbell Bros. Ltd.
Christchurch Operatic Society.
Napier Operatic Society
Hamilton Operatic Society
Napier Frivolity Minstrels
Mr. and Mrs. H. Poppelwell
Elizabeth Palmer (For Scenery Painting and Upholstery)
Kevin Everitt
Russell Orr Studios (1979) Ltd.

COMING PRODUCTIONS
1979   VARIETY SPECTACULAR
1980   THE WIZARD OF OZ

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