“The Sound of Music” can be heard from inside the Newton Community Theatre. Our local talent — including the actors onstage and the musicians playing all those memorable tunes — is bringing the iconic musical to life this weekend and the next. With such a short window of time, you don’t want to miss it.
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Directing the show is Sandy Olsthoorn, Melinda Robertson, Cathi Wickett and Will Edgar. “The Sound of Music” originated as a stage musical with music by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II and a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. Of course, we all remember it as the 1965 film.
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Based on the memoir “The Story of the Trapp Family Singers” by Maria Augusta von Trapp, “The Sound of Music” takes a more fictionalized account of a struggling nun who is assigned as a governess to a large family that she connects with through music. The story is set in Austria in the late 1930s.
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Newton Community Theatre’s production of “The Sound of Music” will be available for viewings at 7:30 p.m. June 21, 22, 28 and 29 and 2 p.m. June 23 and 30 at 1701 S. Eighth Ave. E. in Newton. Tickets are $18 for adults and $15 for youth. General admission is already on sale.
Call the box office at 641-792-1230 for any questions. The box office is staffed between noon and 1 p.m., 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. and one hour before each show.