Music! Music! Music!

All the sounds of music will be heard in the Operatic Society's forth-coming production of one of the world's most successful musicals, "The Sound of Music". The cream of local talent sings all the tuneful and melodic numbers in this excellently staged production. Of note is the quality of the Nuns' Chorus which opens the show. Marion Goodwin stars in the lead role of Maria von Trapp, while two lots of children alternate nightly in the parts of the Trapp family.

With Maria one set of the Trapp family is, from left, Irene Keegan, Shelley Downes, Sandra Hickman, Sarah Hocquard, Sharon Bodle, and James and Ian Davidson.

The other set is Erin-Mary Small, Sandra Newman, Elizabeth Whangapirita, Karen Rickard, Sharon Bodle, Bill Pauly and Laurence Hocquard.

Leaonie Small (left) plays the Mother Abbess and with her are pictured the nuns in the opening preludium. From left, at back: Audrey Richards, Marjorie Keegan, Ethel Jackson, Nancy Nelson, Eileen Hammond, Sheila Staples, June Stichbury, Judith Hickman. Centre row: Irene Samson, Maureen Pinner, Karen Berry, Robina Rangi. Front row: Elizabeth Hardy, Evelyn Tombleson, Dianne Stubbings, Gay McFetridge, Sylvia Groves.

Audrey Richards, Marjorie Keegan and Nancy Nelson play in intermediate roles with Leaonie Small.

Maria, torn between a life of service or freedom in the outside world, receives the comfort of the Mother Abbess.

Ross and Sharon Bodle play Rolf Gruber and Liesl Trapp, and sing "Sixteen Going on Seventeen".

Stuart Rothwell (Captain von Trapp) stars opposite Marion Goodwin (Maria).

Gary Graham and Pamela Strange have the roles of Max Detweiler and Elsa Schraeder, and provide some humorous moments.

Captain von Trapp in a tense scene with Elsa and Max.

Supporting roles are played by Maude Dunfoy as the housekeeper, and George Rawlings as the butler.

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The Gisborne Photo News

No 181 : July 16, 1969

Music! Music! Music!