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Cast set for May 6-8 community production
of Sound of Music
More than 120 adults and
children auditioned for the Sound of Music, to be presented by
the College and Manchester Symphony Orchestra on May 6-8.
The cast of 40 includes
residents of North Manchester and the surrounding communities. The
performance of the 1959 Broadway musical goes into rehearsals Monday,
March 21 on campus.
"The nun’s chorus
promises to be spectacular!" said Director Debra Lynn, associate
professor of music. "Our audience will really feel like they are in
heaven when they hear this group of women. They have a wonderful
intergenerational quality. Some of the new postulants are supposed to be
as young as 13, so among them (the novices and the nuns) we have a wide
age range. I love mixing young voices with mature voices, there is just
no better sound. Young voices are very “blendable” and mature voices
add a depth and color impossible for young singers to achieve."
Lynn also has praise for the children who auditioned, noting it was
difficult to restrain the casting to only seven Von Trapp children.
Sound of Music is a
collaboration of Manchester College and the Manchester Symphony
Orchestra, which performs on campus. The 50-member community orchestra
is comprised of area residents, Manchester College students, faculty and
staff.
Lynn offered her thanks to MSO Director Suzanne Gindin and College
organist Marilyn Sexton Mason for their help during auditions, as well
as members of the MC's A Cappella Choir and the Manchester Symphony
Executive Board. "Auditions would have been a logistical nightmare
without their help," she said.
Here’s the cast:
Captain Georg von Trapp,
Andrew Haff
Maria Rainer (postulant at
Nonnberg Abbey), Amanda Myers-Walls
Max Detweiller, Michael
Raymond
Elsa Schraeder, Amy
Hoffman
The Mother Abbess, Debbie
Chinworth
Frau Schmidt (housekeeper),
Sally Forrester Rich
Liesl von Trapp (age 16),
Rachel McFadden
Friedrich von Trapp (age 14),
Katy Merriman
Louisa von Trapp (age 13),
Piper Tobias
Kurt von Trapp (age 10),
Bryce Pyrah
Brigitta von Trapp (age 9),
Katy Stuart
Marta von Trapp (age 7),
Brooke Pratt
Gretl von Trapp (age 5),
Rachel Chapman
Rolf Gruber, Joe Gibble-Keenan
Franz (the butler), Gary
Robison
Herr Zeller, Torrance Dean
Sister Margaretta (mistress
of the postulants), Myra Martin-Adkins
Sister Berthe (mistress of
the novices), Gina Voelz
Sister Sophia, Renée
McFadden
Ursula, Kristen Lahman
Admiral von Schreiber,
Cameron Hollenberg
Baron Elberfeld, Will
Myers
Frau Zeller, Allison
Hoover
Baroness Elberfeld,
Caitlin Haynes
Frau Schwieger, Jaina
Alexander
Nuns, Elizabeth
Allen, Meagan Harlow, Kathy Hawkins, Rachael Heath, Amy Hoffman, Allison
Hoover
Novices, Jaina Alexander,
Caitlyn Haynes, Becca Kane, Emma Lowman, Julie Thompson, Riyanka
Subrahmanyam
New Postulants, Catherine
Chapman, Lydia Chapman, Kristen Lahman, Laura Merriman, Sarah Rich,
Amanda Robison
Party Guests, Becca Kane,
Andrew Leavens, Emma Lowman, Matthew Overman, Andrew Suhre
Soldiers, Cameron
Hollenberg, Andrew Leavens, Will Myers, Andrew Suhre, Matthew Overman |
