The Sounds of Music arrives at Istana Budaya for 3-week run

by ANIS HAZIM / pic supply: Istana Budaya Fb

WITH just some days to go earlier than we have fun the tip of 2022 and ring in 2023, “The Sound of Music” (TSOM) has arrived in Malaysia for its South-East Asian tour, taking part in on the Istana Budaya Kuala Lumpur (KL) from Dec 27 by way of Jan 15, 2023.

The multi-award-winning musical turned the primary worldwide theatre manufacturing to stage at Istana Budaya because the pandemic shut down the venue greater than a 12 months in the past.

Judging from the packed home on the second night time, TSOM is the season’s scorching ticket and is certain to work its magic as soon as once more for younger and previous alike.

The legendary musical tells the uplifting true story of Maria, the fun-loving governess who modifications the lives of the widowed Captain von Trapp and his seven kids by re-introducing them to music, culminating within the household’s flight throughout the Austrian mountains as tensions rise previous to the outbreak of World Conflict II.

With its unforgettable rating, TSOM touches the hearts of all ages and accommodates among the most memorable songs ever carried out on the musical theatre stage together with “My Favorite Issues”, “Do-Re-Mi”, “Climb Ev’ry Mountain”, “Edelweiss”, “The Lonely Goatherd”, “Sixteen Happening Seventeen” and its wonderful title tune “The Sound of Music”.

TSOM was final carried out in Malaysia in 2011 on the KL Conference Centre, that includes a London forged.

This time round, the musical picked 17 native youngster actors from 500 kids who auditioned, aged from seven to fifteen, to carry out the roles of six of the seven von Trapp kids in rotation as Gretl, Kurt, Friedrich, Marta, Brigitta, and Louisa.

“It has been an extended wait throughout this pandemic and we’re very pleased to have the ability to lastly carry one other famend worldwide musical to Malaysia after the highly-successful ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ in 2019,” Base Leisure Asia CEO Chantal Prudhomme mentioned.

TSOM Worldwide Tour is directed by three-time Tony Award-winner and Broadway veteran Jack O’Brien, choreographed by Danny Mefford and music supervised by Andy Einhorn.

The musical is produced by Broadway Worldwide Group, Simone Genatt and Marc Routh, and offered in Malaysia and Singapore by Base Leisure Asia.

Tickets for TSOM on the Istana Budaya are on sale now from RM320.