The Broadway musical, “The Sound of Music”, will be staged at the Macau Cultural Centre’s Grad Auditorium on August 10-22, according to a press conference hosted by the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) yesterday, which noted that tickets for the 16 performances will be on sale at 10 a.m. tomorrow.
The play will be on every day except Wednesdays, with two performances on Saturdays and Sundays
According to the press conference at the Macau Cultural Centre in Nape, the play is under the direction of Jack O’Brien who has been awarded the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre (commonly known as the Tony Award) three times, with musical direction by Andy Einhorn, while the cast will include Jill-Christine Wiley as Maria Rainer and Trevor Martin as Captain von Trapp, as well as leading performers and young stars from an international company who will play the roles of the von Trapp family.
The play tells the wartime story of a young postulant – Maria – who leaves her convent to take a job as a governess for a widowed naval officer and his seven children, during which she changes the lives of the naval officer and his children with songs including “Do-Re-Mi”, “My Favourite Things” and “Climb Every Mountain” by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, the press conference noted.
According to the Collins Dictionary website, a postulant is a person who makes a request or application, especially a candidate for admission to a religious order.
“The Sound of Music”, first premiered in New York in 1959, is based on Maria von Trapp’s autobiographical novel “The Story of the Trapp Family Singers”, written by Howard Lindsay and made into a musical by Russel Crouse.
The global tour, produced by Broadway International Group and Broadway Asia, premiered in North America, and has already been staged in Singapore, the Philippines and India prior to arriving in Macau, according to an IC statement yesterday.
The statement quoted the bureau as saying that with the aim of promoting the integrated development of culture and building a high-quality cultural brand in Macau, it is “highly committed to present iconic and large-scale productions and stage works through longer runs that appeal to a wide audience range”. The bureau also said in the statement that it strives to enrich local cultural tourism resources through cooperation with more tourism platforms and therefore, widely promoting Macau’s cultural image, which helps appropriately diversify the development of the city’s economy.
More details about ticketing can be found at the IC website www.icm.gov.mo or the Macau Cultural Centre’s website www.ccm.gov.mo. Enquiries can be made by calling 2840 5555.
Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) President Leong Wai Man (third from right) and Vice President Cheang Kai Meng (third from left), as well as Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) Advertising and Production Division Chief Chen Yuan Yuan (left), Bank of China (Macau) Limited Chief Executive Chan Hio Peng (second from left), Shun Tak-China Travel Ship Management (Macau) Limited General Manager Anna Hong Yu Han and Air Macau Company Limited Vice President Liao Hanxi (right) pose during yesterday’s press conference about the upcoming 16 “The Sound of Music” musical performances, at Macau Cultural Centre (CCM) in Nape. The event is sponsored by the three companies. – Photo: Yuki Lei
