Does anyone know the play The Sound Of Music?

Question

I tryed out for the play, because my friend forced me to, and when we found out our parts yesterday, and I found out that I got the part of Brigitta.
A) Who is Brigitta? (Can you please give me a description of her character?)
B) Is that a good part?
C) How many lines does she have?
ALso, my friend got the part of Marta.
A) Who is Marta? (Can you give me a discription of her character?)
B) Is that a good part?
C) How many lines does she have?

A) Have any of you ever been in this play, and who were you?
B) Based on your opinion, Is this a good play?
By The Way, me and my friend are both 12, but my friend looks like she is 8, and I look like I'm 11.
Thank you!

My mom is going to get the movie for me next week, because she is away in Mexico, righ now.

Answer 1

Look up the Von Trapp family and you will get a lot of information on the family members.

Answer 2

A) Who is Brigitta? (Can you please give me a description of her character?)

Brigitta is the 5th kid.
Liesl (16), Friedrich, Luisa, Kurt, Brigitta (8), Marta (6) and Gretl
She's very observant, and inquisitive. That's my favortie role.
"But it doesn't mean anything!" -Do,Re,Mi
you can sing most A-NY-THING! "That's 3 notes!" - when Maria said "one note for every word"
She's usually quiet and shy and likes to read. But she's also the most tactless/outspoken: "I'm Brigitta and I think your dress is ugly!"
"She yodeled back to the lonely goatherd.." "One little girl in a pale pink coat.."


B) Is that a good part?
My favorite.

C) How many lines does she have?
A lot. Can't remember how many. I'm already 20. It's been about 12 years. I think she has a much scenes/lines as Liesl. She has a scene with Maria, during the party when she notices Maria flushed after dancing with the Captain.

ALso, my friend got the part of Marta.
A) Who is Marta? (Can you give me a discription of her character?)

She's younger than Brigitta. Quiet mostly and the nicest. She's the one who liked Maria from the get-go.

B) Is that a good part? Everything is a good part. You know the saying... something like " No small parts, just small actors." Or is it "No bad parts just bad actors." I'm not sure.
C) How many lines does she have? A lot too, not as much as Brigitta but still a lot to memorize, but you know most of the show is sung.

A) Have any of you ever been in this play, and who were you? Brigitta. in Amateur Theatre. Not professional theatre.
B) Based on your opinion, Is this a good play? Very good for families. My very first musical is Annie and this is the next. I think I've memorized all the songs of Annie and The Sound Of Music since I was 6 or 7. then came THe King and I, which I also memorized. I still know most of the songs from Annie, the Sound Of music, cinderella and the king and I. And can still sing it today. Even though it's been more than a decade since i last saw the films. I do not have younger siblings who will watch but I have it all on dvd so I could collect. For my future nieces and nephews. Haha.

Just buy the dvd of The Sound Of music, It's not complete but still
it's a prerequisite to watch it. You made me wish I could go back to being 8. Break a leg!

Answer 3

Brigitta and Marta are both fun parts. Brigitta is not the eldest Von Trapp girl (that's Liesl), but rather the sassy one who looks to be about 12 in the movie. She's protective of her brothers and sisters and not afraid to say what she thinks and feels. Marta is younger and sweeter. Her big moment is informing new governness Maria, upon their meeting, that she's "going to be 7 on Tuesday and I'd like a pink parasol!" (Maria replies, knowingly, "Pink is my favorite color, too.")

Both girls get to work with the other 5 children in almost every scene, so I think you're going to have a great time. They sing a lot and get to do beautiful close harmonies. The show is one of the classics of musical theatre. Enjoy!

Answer 4

Sound Of Music Lines

Answer 5

A) I think Brigitta is the eldest daughter of the Vonn Trapp Family.
B) It's a very good part. She sings a lot of songs. Especially "you are 16 going on 17".
C) Im not sure exactly how many lines she has, but it's definitley a very good amount.
A) Marta is the next oldest daughter under Brigitta.
B)It's not as a good part as Yours, though
C)Not many lines... sorry
A)I havent been in this play, but i have seen it numerous times.
B) it's a WONDERFUL play!!!!
Where do you try out???? Is it free to try out?? becasue i really want to be in show business!! please help me too.

Answer 6

read the script!!! or if youre feeling particularly unambitions watch the movie.
i know that sounds rude but the best information you can recieve about a character is by gathering your own information through the script.

Answer 7

One of the most beloved movie musicals of all-time, THE SOUND OF MUSIC had all the makings of a successful film -- memorable Rodgers and Hammerstein songs, lush background locations, a talented cast, an experienced production team, the preceding momentum of a popular stage musical, and most importantly, a wholesome, sentimental story with sympathetic heroes, historic villains and broad family appeal. Yet the international blockbuster that resulted when all these elements finally came together in the spring of 1965 was altogether greater than the sum of its parts.
By the standards of an era when civil rights, the space program, the Great Society and the Vietnam conflict dominated American headlines, THE SOUND OF MUSIC is old-fashioned and glossy, lacking the gritty realism and appeal for social consciousness that dominates other movies of the mid-1960s. Nevertheless, audiences then and now can't get enough of it; because for all its breathtaking scenery and cheery optimism, the film's characters are individuals with credible personal and political struggles, both externally challenged and internally troubled, for whom the audience comes to care. And caring, generations of viewers have been reminded of the importance of family and the universality of music; they have taken heart in the idea that "when the Lord closes a door, somewhere He opens a window" and been inspired to "climb every mountain" in search of a dream. In short, THE SOUND OF MUSIC is the ultimate feel-good movie, and its popularity is likely to continue as long as humanity's need for an occasional shot in the arm of hope, happiness and harmony.

Julie Andrews was Hollywood's most promising up-and-coming musical star when she was chosen to play THE SOUND OF MUSIC's leading role, Fraulein Maria, in the winter of 1963. An established star of the Broadway and London stages, Andrews was just beginning to make her mark on the film industry, having recently completed production on her first movie musical, MARY POPPINS (1964). Although it had not yet been released, THE SOUND OF MUSIC director Robert Wise arranged to screen some footage from MARY POPPINS at the Disney studios in an effort to evaluate Andrews' potential as a musical screen star. Impressed with what he saw and confident she could bring added depth to the role made famous on Broadway by the legendary Mary Martin, Wise quickly signed Andrews to play the impetuous postulant upon whose shoulders the success of THE SOUND OF MUSIC would rest.

Needless to say, she did not disappoint. Not only did Andrews earn an Oscar for her performance in MARY POPPINS (1964) only a month after THE SOUND OF MUSIC was released on Memorial Day weekend 1965; she also earned a second Best Actress Academy Award nomination for her performance in THE SOUND OF MUSIC itself. Although this early in her film career, some of her gestures are still (understandably) somewhat stagy, the earnestness and rebellious spirit Andrews brings to the role of Maria lend an additional level of humor to the film's light moments and sincerity to the more serious scenes, keeping the movie's storyline from becoming too fanciful or saccharine. And with a voice like Andrews', its easier to understand how a devoted nun-in-training could permit a simple abbey rule against singing to force her outside the convent walls and into the real world where all her adventures begin.

Though THE SOUND OF MUSIC won the Academy Awards for Best Picture of 1965 and Best Director (Robert Wise) along with three other statuettes, among its five unrequited nominations were three in the aesthetic categories of art/set decoration, costume design and cinematography -- all of which were awarded to the other major historical epic of 1965, David Lean's DOCTOR ZHIVAGO. That said, cinematographer Ted McCord's location photography of Salzburg, Austria and the surrounding Alps -- especially evident in the helicopter shots during the pre-titles opening sequence -- is authentically breathtaking and can only be properly appreciated when seen in all its 70mm glory on the big screen.

Video Clip from the pre-titles opening sequence:
"The Hills are Alive with the Sound of Music" (a .MOV file courtesy 20th-Century Fox).

We first meet Maria basking wimple-less in the sunshine and singing her heart out on top of a mountain:

"The Sound of Music" (an .AU file courtesy Rhino Records).

"The hills are alive with the sound of music -- with songs they have sung for a thousand years. The hills fill my heart with the sound of music. My heart wants to sing every song it hears.

"My heart wants to beat like the wings of the birds that rise from the lake to the trees. My heart wants to sigh like a chime that flies from a church on a breeze; to laugh like a brook when it trips and falls over stones on its way; to sing through the night like a lark who is learning to pray. I go to the hills when my heart is lonely. I know I will hear what I've heard before. My heart will be blessed with the sound of music, and I'll sing once more."

But Maria gets a little carried away up on the Untersberg mountain and is late returning to the abbey. This will have consequences and she well knows it.