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TSOM is a nice score, not R&H's best, but still heads over so much else at the time. Much has been said about Mary Martin's being too old. Apparently R&H didn't think so since they wrote TSOM for her. And audiences loved it! So much so that she won the Tony award that year. (Over Merman in Gypsy. Although, truth be told, Merman was not particularly popular with the theatrical community. From accounts I've read she was a major diva and a total b***h. And since it was her peers who were Tony voters...) Still it's a nice recording of pleasant R & H standards, different in scope than the film soundtrack but pretty good on it's own merit. Enjoyable!
September 27, 2007 | | I love this 'Sound of Music'....... | |
Though, I saw SOUND OF MUSIC on film at an early age, I also heard the original Broadway Cast recording, with Mary Martin and Theodore Bikel, as a young person, too. Mary Martin has a great stage presence and was a wonderful singer, in my opinion, and she is nothing but great in this production of Captain & Maria Von Trapp and their brood of singing children. Yes, the Maria (Martin) and Captain (Bikel) are significantly older than the version we see in the film (with Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer), but they are still very, very good actors and they sing the songs with feeling. There are songs in the original recording that were cut for the film ("How Can Love Survive," "Laendler," "No Way To Stop It," and "An Ordinary Couple"), and I think they are actually far superior to those that were added to the movie ("I Have Confidence," "Something Good"). The kids are adorable, here, and it's nothing short of great musical theater.
July 21, 2007This is the original version of The Sound of Music starring Mary Martin.. She does a wonderful job, I especially like the Lonely Goatherd.
A real difference from the Julie Andrews version. With extra songs left out of the film and one changed song. I thrououghly recommend this title.
March 3, 2007This is the Sound of Music of my childhood. I never saw the show, but the music was all over when I was growing up. I have seen the movie many times, and went on the Sound of Music tour in Salzburg recently. So I got the original soundtrack. The movie is wonderful, but the music from the stage musical is much better. For one thing, they got the singers for their musical ability. No offense to Julie Andrews, a great actor and singer, but the music was written for Mary Martin, and it does show. The stage show did not have the benfit of the scenery of the movie, so the music in the stage show makes up for that. It's more about music, and less an accompaniment to the beautiful scenery around Salzburg. So watch the movie, and listen to this soundtrack
January 13, 2007| | | Mary Martin in THE SOUND OF MUSIC | |
Although the recording techniques were not as advanced as today, this recording is a wonderful reproduction of the original version of THE SOUND OF MUSIC. The digital sizzle of today's recordings is missing---but it sure beats vinyl. It's hard to believe that the first time audiences heard this music was not Julie Andrews in the 1956 movie version. Mary Martin was considered one of the musical theatre's first ladies and for students and fans of the art form, hearing her unique approach to the music should be very enlightening. Since Oscar Hammerstein died in 1960, one can assume that he had a good deal of input into the production of this recording. In effect we are listening to the musical, as the creators wanted us to hear it.
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