Sing-A-Long-A Sound of Music Back in Melbourne
Sing-A-Long-A Sound of Music returns to Arts Centre Melbourne, State Theatre for three performances (Friday 16 & Saturday 17 August 7:30pm), and a family friendly Matinee (Saturday 17 August at 1pm).
Chelsea Plumley (pictured above with children) returns to hosting duties to guide the audience through the interactive experience and tribute to the very unique film The Sound of Music.
See the classic movie on the big screen, re-mastered to its original cinematic glory. Admit it, you know the words – and if you don’t there are song-sub-titles so EVERYONE can sing a-long!Sing-A-Long –A Sound of Musicis an audience participation event where the host leads a vocal warm-up, gives a guide to the use of the interactive fun pack and accompanying actions and (with a little help from the audience) judges the Costume Parade - a highlight of the night that separates the die-hards from the dabblers!
Fans cheer on Julie Andrews, wolf-whistle Christopher Plummer, hiss the Baroness and boo the Nazis! Then there’s the moment when Maria and the Captain finally kiss, with 2000 party poppers going off simultaneously as their lips touch!
Audiences dress for the occasion. Audience members have dressed as anything and everything from the movie.... nuns ready to sing a few of their favourite songs,Maria, girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes, Plumbers (Christopher Plummers!) the Alps, brown paper packages tied up with string, goats (with or without lonely goatherds) or larks that are learning to pray – the possibilities are endless.
VENUE: Arts Centre Melbourne, State Theatre
DATES: Friday 16 & Saturday 17 August 2013 at 7.30pm and Saturday 17 August MATINEE at 1.00pm
START: 7:30pm /1.00pm – runs 4 hours approx. (including 20 Minute Interval)
BOOKINGS: *www.artscentremelbourne.com.au P: 1300 182 183; www.ticketmaster.com.au 136 100
PRICES:Adults $55 / Group (8 or over) $49 / Concession $45 / Family (2 Adults 2 Children) $155 / Child (under 15) $35
*transaction and booking fees may apply
The Sound of Music is the most successful movie musical of all time and the number one family film. Released in 1965 by 20th Century Fox - written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein and directed by Robert Wise the film was shot in the Austrian Alps of Salzburg; and is based on the true story of Austrian singing family "von Trapp", who became famous and toured the States in the 1940s. WhenThe Sound of Music screened in Germany, the film was cut after the wedding, shedding a third of the movie’s length and nearly all of the anti Nazi content. When Fox got wind and demanded the footage be reinstated the film bombed badly. In the year the film was made, 2 million additional tourists visited Salzburg, Austria.
The first Sing-A-Long- A Sound of Music was held in the UK in 1999 as a one-off event. Producers Ben Freedman and US partners Tom Lightburn and Bill Soady formed Singalonga Productions to roll out the event worldwide with new prints of the film subtitled with the song lyrics. Sing-A-Long- A Sound of Musichas toured more than 120 Centres in the United Kingdom to over 1,000,000 people.
To celebrate the 45th Anniversary Twentieth Century Fox has released a special re-mastered edition of the movie on BLU-RAY and DVD.