Video: Check Out The Sound of Music Tour, Starring Cayleigh Capaldi, Kevin Earley, Christiane Noll, and Nicholas Rodriguez
The tour will run into 2026.
Christiane Noll and Cayleigh Capaldi in The Sound of Music
Jeremy Daniel
A new North American tour of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music launched September 5 at the Stanley Theatre in Utica, New York, and a trailer had been newly released for the production!
Directed by Tony winner Jack O’Brien, the tour will continue into 2026, playing week-long and multi-week engagements. O’Brien also directed the musical’s most recent tour of the U.S., which ran 2015-2016. Danny Mefford has also returned as choreographer.
The cast is led by Cayleigh Capaldi (Titanique) as Maria Rainer, Kevin Earley (Old Friends) as Captain Georg von Trapp, Tony nominee Christiane Noll (Ragtime) as Mother Abbess, Nicholas Rodriguez (Company) as Max Detweiler, Kate Loprest (First Date) as Elsa Schraeder, Ariana Ferch as Liesl von Trapp, and Ian Coursey as Rolf Gruber.
The other von Trapp children are played by Eli Vander Griend as Friedrich, Ava Davis as Louisa, Benjamin Stasiek as Kurt, Haddie Mac as Brigitta, Ruby Caramore as Marta, and Luciana VanDette as Gretl. Harper Burns, Oliver Cirelli, and Molly Glowacki understudy the von Trapp children.
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The principal cast is rounded out by John Adkinson as Franz, Corey Greenan as Admiral von Schreiber, and Daniel Robert Sullivan as Herr Zeller. Completing the company are Blaire Eilene Baker, Sydney K. Borchers, Dylan Bradford, Steven Grant Douglas, Alli Echelmeyer, Zach Herman, Charlotte Jenkins, Jade Litaker as Sister Berthe, Meredith Lustig as Sister Sophia, Jennifer Malenke as Frau Schmidt, Mark Bradley Miller as Baron Elberfeld, Tess Primack as Sister Margaretta, and Ruthie Sangster.
“A few years ago, I was part of a group of collaborative artists who, almost inadvertently, stumbled on original conceptions for the stage mounting of The Sound of Music that had never found their way into production,” O’Brien said in an earlier statement. “We felt as if we were awakening Sleeping Beauty herself, and the results exposed a version of this classic virtually unknown before, and yet more dramatic, more detailed, more rapturous, and more touching than any we had experienced. It is with extreme enthusiasm and a keen sense of anticipation those same artists once more return to complete the work we began, and give this most beloved of all musicals the creative facelift it deserves. We truly believe the original authors would be thrilled. And we believe you will be, too!”
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Photos: First Look at The Sound of Music National Tour
Photos: First Look at The Sound of Music National Tour
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Cayleigh Capaldi in The Sound of Music
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Cayleigh Capaldi in The Sound of Music
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Ian Coursey and Ariana Ferch in The Sound of Music
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Christiane Noll and Cayleigh Capaldi in The Sound of Music
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Cayleigh Capaldi in The Sound of Music
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Christiane Noll in The Sound of Music
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Christiane Noll and Cayleigh Capaldi in The Sound of Music
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Kevin Earley and Cayleigh Capaldi in The Sound of Music
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Kevin Earley, Cayleigh Capaldi, Ariana Ferch, Eli Vander Griend, Ava Davis, Benjamin Stasiek, Haddie Mac, Ruby Caramore, and Luciana VanDette in The Sound of Music
Jeremy Daniel
The Sound of Music features music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, and a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. Loosely based on the true story of the von Trapp Family Singers, the beloved musical follows Maria Rainer, who becomes a governess to the seven children of a widowed naval commander in Austria just as the Nazi party is coming into power. The original Broadway production in 1959 was built around Mary Martin‘s performance as Maria, but the musical is best known from its 1965 film adaptation starring Julie Andrews.
The classic Rodgers and Hammerstein score includes “Edelweiss,” ”My Favorite Things,” “Climb Ev’ry Mountain,” “Do-Re-Mi,” “Sixteen Going On Seventeen,” “The Lonely Goatherd,” and “The Sound of Music.”
The touring production also has associate direction by Matt Lenz, associate choreography by Mark Myars, set design by Douglas W. Schmidt, costume design by Jane Greenwood, lighting design by Natasha Katz, sound design by Kai Harada, musical supervision by Andy Einhorn, hair and wig design by Tom Watson, and casting by The Telsey Office‘s Rachel Hoffman and Rashad Naylor. The tour music director and conductor is Jonathan Marro.
Also on the team: production stage manager Brigham Johnson, stage manager Kali Ashurst, assistant stage manager Megan Belgam, company manager Jamey Jennings, and associate company manager Luke Meyer.
Executive producers are Sean Patrick Flahaven for Concord Theatricals and Trinity Wheeler for NETworks Presentations.
Visit SoundOfMusicOnTour.com.