The Sound Of Music Play Analysis

The Sound of Music is a musical play that was written by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. Howard Lindsay was born in 1889 and died in 1968. He became an actor at nineteen and went on to become a successful writer. Russel Crouse was born in 1893 and died in 1966. He served in the Navy and after that he worked on New York newspapers, gaining his first renown through a signed column in the Post. In 1932 he became head of the publicity department for the Theatre Guild and in 1933 wrote his first Broadway show, working with Corey Ford on the musical comedy Hold Your Horses.(History.com) The play was published by Oscar Hammerstein II and Richard Rodgers and was published on April 1, 1965. The director of the Sound of Music is Jack O’Brien. The setting of this story was in Austria. It approximately took place in the 1930’2 during WW2. The time period of this story because the author made it is an important feel to it because it is the perfect place to explain what was going on in the beginning of WW2. The place where it happened was very important as well because it lets the audience know what the family had to go through to get out of the problem that they are in. The music helped
They left just in time; the next day the Austrian borders were sealed. During World War II, Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler used the von Trapp’s house for a place to stay will he was there for the summer. The names and age differences between the children were changed for the sake of the play. The eldest von Trapp child was not 16-going-on-17-year-old Liesl, but Rupert, who was born in 1911 and a practicing physician by the time the family fled Austria in 1938. The von Trapps married more than a decade before they had to flee