Who owns the rights to the sound of music?
In 1956, Paramount Pictures purchased the United States film rights, intending to produce an English-language version with Audrey Hepburn as Maria. The studio eventually dropped its option, but one of its directors, Vincent J. Donehue, proposed the story as a stage musical for Mary Martin. Producers Richard Halliday and Leland Heyward secured the rights and hired playwrights Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, who had won the Pulitzer Prize for "State of the Union". They approached Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II to compose one song for the musical, but the composers felt the two styles—traditional Austrian folk songs and their composition—would not work together. They offered to write a complete new score for the entire production if the producers were willing to wait while they completed work on "Flower Drum Song". The producers quickly responded that they would wait as long as necessary. "The Sound of Music" stage musical opened on November 16, 1959 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York City and ran on Broadway for 1,443 performances, winning six Tony Awards, including Best Musical. In June 1960, Twentieth Century Fox purchased the film adaptation rights to the stage musical for $1.25 million () against ten percent of the gross.
Who owns the rights for the film adaptation of The Sound of Music?
Twentieth Century Fox
The Sound of Music (film)
In 1956, Paramount Pictures purchased the United States film rights, intending to produce an English-language version with Audrey Hepburn as Maria. The studio eventually dropped its option, but one of its directors, Vincent J. Donehue, proposed the story as a stage musical for Mary Martin. Producers Richard Halliday and Leland Heyward secured the rights and hired playwrights Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, who had won the Pulitzer Prize for "State of the Union". They approached Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II to compose one song for the musical, but the composers felt the two styles—traditional Austrian folk songs and their composition—would not work together. They offered to write a complete new score for the entire production if the producers were willing to wait while they completed work on "Flower Drum Song". The producers quickly responded that they would wait as long as necessary. "The Sound of Music" stage musical opened on November 16, 1959 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York City and ran on Broadway for 1,443 performances, winning six Tony Awards, including Best Musical. In June 1960, Twentieth Century Fox purchased the film adaptation rights to the stage musical for $1.25 million () against ten percent of the gross.
Who owns the rights for the stage musical of The Sound of Music?
Richard Halliday and Leland Heyward
The Sound of Music (film)
The Sound of Music (film)
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The film is an adaptation of the 1959 stage musical of the same name, composed by Richard Rodgers with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II.
The Sound of Music (film)
The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical drama film 
The Sound of Music (film)
The von Trapp family had no control over how they were depicted in the film and stage musical, having given up the rights to their story to a German producer in the 1950s who then sold the rights to American producers.
The Sound of Music (film)
The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical drama film that is an adaptation of the 1959 stage musical of the same name, which was composed by Richard Rodgers with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. Twentieth Century Fox owns the rights for the film adaption of The Sound of Music, while Richard Halliday and Leland Heyward own the rights for the stage musical of The Sound of Music. The von Trapp family had no control over how they were depicted in the film and stage musical, having given up the rights to their story to a German producer in the 1950s, who then sold the rights to American producers.