“When I was younger, the story was only about a family who needed love and then found love. As I grew older, the context of World War II and the Nazis gave me deeper insight and understanding as to how rich and important a show like The Sound of Music truly was.”Read source ↗
The Sound of Music
Making the story live in the room.
Elizabeth approached the musical as both an intimate story of a family learning how to love and a larger story about private conviction under political threat, allowing the warmth of the score and the danger of its historical setting to deepen one another.
Her production brought a cast of forty into a precise multigenerational staging, using the von Trapp children’s changing relationships, the abbey community, and the gathering pressure of 1938 Austria to move the familiar material from nostalgia toward moral choice.
The artists who shaped the production together.
Elizabeth McKoy
Greg Mason
Staci Arriaga
Sharon Rietkerk
Tim Kniffin
Patricia Soria Urbano
The work, in conversation.
“This is the perfect multigenerational show; it has so many levels that, regardless of age, the joyful music and heartfelt melodies will transport audiences.”Read source ↗
