Back in the 1940’s Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein started working together and their collaborations are remembered as ‘The Golden Age’ of Hollywood musicals. Rogers had worked with lyricist Lorenzo Hart for over two decades and had a string of successes, but as his writing partner’s life was over taken by alcoholism, Rogers turned to […]
Heather Menzies-Urich, who as a teenager starred as Louisa Von Trapp in the musical The Sound of Music has died aged 68. She was just 14 years old when she played the third eldest child of the famous singing family, and it was her first acting role. Pictured above, Menzies- Urich is fourth from the left. […]
They say the test of a good musical is whether or not you’re humming the tunes as you leave the theatre. The Sound of Music is so well loved we’re humming the tunes as we arrive at the theatre. It would be fair to say that most of the audience were already intimately familiar with the show. […]
