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Title: I love this 'Sound of Music'.......
Review: Though, I saw SOUND OF MUSIC on film at an early age, I also heard the original Broadway Cast recording, with Mary Martin and Theodore Bikel, as a young person, too. Mary Martin has a great stage presence and was a wonderful singer, in my opinion, and she is nothing but great in this production of Captain & Maria Von Trapp and their brood of singing children. Yes, the Maria (Martin) and Captain (Bikel) are significantly older than the version we see in the film (with Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer), but they are still very, very good actors and they sing the songs with feeling. There are songs in the original recording that were cut for the film ("How Can Love Survive," "Laendler," "No Way To Stop It," and "An Ordinary Couple"), and I think they are actually far superior to those that were added to the movie ("I Have Confidence," "Something Good"). The kids are adorable, here, and it's nothing short of great musical theater.
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