''The Sound of Music''

The Sound of Music marked the last collaboration between Rodgers and Hammerstein with such popular songs as: "The Sound of Music", "My Favorite Things". "Climb Ev'ry Mountain", "Do-Re-Mi", and "Edelweiss". The setting is Salzburg, Austria, where Maria, a postulant at Nonnberg Abbey, is too free-spirited to accept the discipline of the order easily and frequently escapes to the mountains. Thus, the Mother Abbess arranges for Maria to work as a governess for the wealthy, artistocrat Captain George Von Trapp - a widower with seven children. By adding music and outdoor expiditions to the children's normally rigorous schedule, Maria wins the children's hearts. Although Captain Von Trapp is engaged to the elegant socialite, Elsa Schraeder, he soon realizes that Maria has won his heart as well.