Maltby, who succeeds Kirsten Anderson, will join a cast that includes Ben Davis (Broadway鈥檚 Violet, A Little Night Music, La Boh猫me) as Captain Georg Von Trapp and Melody Betts as The Mother Abbess with Merwin Foard as Max Detweiler, Teri Hansen as Elsa Schraeder, Austin Colby as Rolf, and Paige Silvester As Liesl.
The Von Trapp children are played by Roy Gantz (Friedrich), Ashley Brooke (Louisa), Austin Levine (Kurt), Iris Davies (Brigitta), Kyla Carter (Marta), and Anika Lore Hatch (Gretl), and the ensemble includes Carey Rebecca Brown, Ronald L. Brown, C谩itl铆n Burke, Christopher Carl, Donna Garner, Jillian Jameson, Robert Mammana, Darren Matthias, Anna Mintzer, Julia Osborne, Zane Phillips, Rebecca Pitcher, Michael Spaziani, Emily Trumble, Maria Failla, Meghan Hales, and Adam Hill.
Director O鈥橞rien said in a statement, 鈥淚 was privileged to actually see Mary Martin in the original production鈥攁s I was myself just a junior at the University of Michigan. She was a great star, and she was giving a 鈥榞reat star鈥檚鈥� performance. She was at the apex of her career, and she was both brilliant and 46 years old.
鈥淏ut in reading it privately, something caught my eye: Maria is probably, as a postulant, no more than six or seven years older than Liesl! She may be many things鈥攁 country lass, a climber-of-trees, a young renegade, but she is clearly not an established star! How interesting!
鈥淚鈥檝e always believed Maria was a 鈥榮tar-making鈥� part, rather than the leading role we remember from the movies and our experience; so I went looking for someone with star-making magic.鈥�
鈥淥ur original Maria [Kirsten Anderson] in The Sound of Music, an undergraduate sophomore from Pace University, was just such an original鈥攁nd as a truly youthful 鈥檇iscovery鈥� in her theatrical debut, she pretty much shattered both expectations and all previous molds,鈥� O'Brien added. 鈥淪o when it came time for her departure, one wondered if the entire event might change into something very different. 鈥�...and then, Charlotte Maltby walked through the door. The daughter of celebrated writer and director, Richard Maltby, Jr, she was, of course, theatrical royalty personified; but was I prepared for her poise, her naturalness, her timing, her elegance? No, I was not. Was I prepared for that voice鈥攐ne of the richest and most powerful I believe I have ever heard in a theatre before?
鈥淣o, I most assuredly was not. And yet, there she stood鈥攁nd the tears in my eyes as I heard the first notes of The Sound of Music testified that we were in a small age of theatrical miracles: there was lightning once more, pure, and anything but simple.
鈥淥ur discovery now is your pleasure; we are blessed by not only the continuing gift of this 鈥檚leeping beauty鈥� of a musical, but more so by the refreshing talent that is somehow inevitably attracted to perform in it.鈥�
A complete list of tour cities follows:
Milwaukee, WI January 3鈥�8, 2017
Indianapolis, IN January 10鈥�15, 2017
Louisville, KY January 7鈥�22, 2017
Omaha, NE January 24鈥�29, 2017
Iowa City, IA January 31鈥揊eb. 5, 2017
Des Moines, IA February 7鈥�12, 2017
Nashville, TN February 14鈥�19, 2017
Grand Rapids, MI February 21鈥�26, 2017
Rochester, NY February 28鈥揗arch 5, 2017
Waterbury, CT March 7鈥�12, 2017
Hershey, PA March 21鈥�26, 2017
Buffalo, NY March 28鈥揂pr. 2, 2017
Schenectady, NY April 4鈥�9, 2017
Memphis, TN April 18鈥�23, 2017
West Palm Beach, FL May 9鈥�14, 2017
Toronto, ON June 6鈥�11, 2017
Washington, DC June 13鈥揓uly 16, 2017
Cleveland, OH July 18鈥�23, 2017
The production is choreographed by (Fun Home, The Bridges of Madison County and Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson) 聽with music supervision by Andy Einhorn (Bullets Over Broadway, Rodgers & Hammerstein鈥檚 Cinderella, Brief Encounter, The Light in the Piazza). The design and production team comprises , set design (Tony Award nominee: 42nd聽Street, Into the Woods); , costume design (2014 recipient of the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre), , lighting design (five-time Tony Award winner: An American in Paris, Once, Aida, The Coast of Utopia, The Glass Menagerie); and Ken Travis, sound design (Aladdin, Newsies, Memphis). Casting is by Telsey + Company/Rachel Hoffman, CSA.
The Sound of Music has music by , lyrics by , book by and , and is suggested by The Trapp Family Singers by .
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