| In this article we're going to review one
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| | that, in a sense, it overshadowed the
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| of the great musicals of our time, which
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| | story.And if you want to take irony to an
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| is actually a true story, The Sound Of
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| | even higher level, the actual true
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| Music.The Sound Of Music is based on a
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| | musical highlight of The Sound Of Music
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| very true a heroic story about the Von
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| | was not even a song sung by Andrews or
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| Trapp family. Briefly, since this
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| | The Von Trapp Family themselves. It was
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| article is really about music and not
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| | a tune called "Climb Every Mountain"
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| history, the Von Trapp family lived in
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| | which was sung by the Mother Superior of
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| Austria just prior to World War II. As
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| | the Convent that Maria came from. This
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| Hitler took control of the country the
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| | song itself was probably one of the
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| family, totally against Hitler's
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| | greatest pieces of music ever written,
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| annexation, fled the country and
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| | sung by a character who was hardly
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| eventually settled in the United States.
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| | seen.Yes, the story of how Maria wormed
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| They were able to do this from the money
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| | her way into the hearts of the family,
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| they made as the Trapp Family Singers,
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| | especially the Baron, played brilliantly
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| and thus the focus of the musical.Before
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| | by Christopher Plummer, was beautiful and
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| The Sound Of Music hit Broadway with Mary
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| | heartwarming. To see a man who was so
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| Martin in the lead role that was made
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| | against music in his home, because of the
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| popular by Julie Andrews, it was first
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| | death of his first wife, transform into a
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| made into a very lavish movie in 1965.
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| | man who made music and Maria his life was
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| Julie Andrews had earlier gained her fame
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| | enough to bring out the tissues all by
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| as Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady and
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| | itself. Add to that the children who so
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| was a natural for the part of Maria in
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| | grew to love Maria for giving them a
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| this musical.The words and music were
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| | reason to smile again and you have a
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| written by the one and only team of
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| | story that you'd have to have the heart
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| Rogers and Hammerstein. The music in
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| | of a tree sloth not to love.Oh and yes,
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| this production is some of the most
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| | there are the great tunes like the title
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| popular music ever written for a musical.
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| | track, "My Favorite Things," "Do-Re-Mi,"
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| During the period when the movie was
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| | and of course the tear jerker "Edelweiss"
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| released there probably wasn't one school
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| | which when the Baron tried to sing at the
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| spring concert production that didn't
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| | family's farewell concert just before
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| feature songs from the movie.The great
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| | they defected, got all choked up and
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| music may have, in a sense, done the
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| | Maria had to help him get through it.
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| story a disservice. The truth is, the
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| | Yeah, you had to be there.If you haven't
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| story is indeed a great one in itself,
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| | seen this great movie, please rent the
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| one of a family's fight for freedom. And
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| | DVD for a weekend and watch it. Really
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| in most cases a movie based on this theme
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| | watch it. It's one of those rare treats
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| would have been able to stand on its own
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| | that won't disappoint.
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| merits. But the music was so fantastic
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