The definitive, authorized history of the world’s most beloved musical—packed with rare full-color illustrations and little-known facts, the story of its evolution from page to stage to screen, and profiles of the composers, writers, and performers ...

The Sound of Music is a cultural and commercial phenomenon. First presented on Broadway in 1959, it has since been seen in tens of thousands of stage productions and in dozens of languages. The 1965 film version (winner of five Academy Awards including Best Picture) is, by any estimation, the most successful movie musical of all time.

Authorized by The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization, The Sound of Music Companion is the one book that every fan of this musical has to have. Its text is lavishly complemented by complete lyrics for all the major songs; more than 170 glorious illustrations, including never-before-seen storyboards from the film; rare von Trapp family photographs; manuscript pages from the pens of Rodgers and Hammerstein and examples of the memorabilia the show has inspired over the years.

Laurence Maslon is an associate arts professor at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. He is the co-author, with Michael Kantor, of Broadway: The American Musical, the companion volume to the Emmy Award-winning PBS series. He has worked on many television documentaries and films, including the recent 40th anniversary DVD edition of The Sound of Music.

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