Tickets go on sale for 'The Sound of Music' at Proctors

SCHENECTADY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — The hills — or, rather, Proctors Theatre in Schenectady — are alive with the sound of music! Tickets are on sale now for the North American tour of the “The Sound of Music” on Proctors MainStage, running from March 17 through March 22.

“The Sound of Music,” which follows governess Maria and the von Trapp family in the hills of Austria, features beloved classics like “My Favorite Things,” “Do-Re-Mi” and “Edelweiss.” The production, which premiered on Broadway in 1959, has won numerous Tony Awards and was turned into one of the most successful movie musicals of all time in 1965, starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer.

The current production is being directed by three-time Tony Award winner Jack O’Brien and choreographed by Danny Mefford, who has also worked on Broadway’s “Fun Home” and “Dear Evan Hansen.” O’Brien said that this tour will debut staging conceptions that had been proposed for the original production but didn’t make it in.

“We felt as if we were reawakening Sleeping Beauty herself, and the results exposed a version of this classical virtually unknown before, and yet more dramatic, more detailed, more rapturous and more touching than any we had experienced,” O’Brien said.

Tickets can be purchased on the Proctors Theatre website. Casting updates can be found on the Sound of Music Tour website.