Sound of Music, 40 years old

Edinburghlass_2

Nothing to do with money saving but I was watching GMTV this morning and they were saying that the Sound of Music was 40 years old this month :eek:

Anyone been to one of these Sing-a-longa Sound of Music? I haven't but I believe everyone dresses up as the characters and the words are on the screen just incase people don't know them

Anyone remember their first trip to the cinema to see Sound of Music? I can. My aunt took us and I so wanted to be Julie Andrews dancing on the mountains

And yet it is such an enduring film that I also remember my neighbours kids recently playing at being the teenagers in the gazebo using the local park benches to run along while singing I Am Sixteen.

silverfoxdude

I love the Sound of Music, and now, I wanna find a small hill and run over it in my pinny singing the "Hills are alive...."

Cant believe its 40 yrs old, its a timeless classic, along with Mary Poppins.. (in my eyes anyways)

black-saturn

I've bought The Sound Of Music DVD for my kids for Christmas.

jaybee

Okay - so the film is 40 years old. I actually went to the original stage show in London. Can't remember exactly when it was, though - possibly the early 1960s. I remember that Constance Shacklock was singing the role of Mother Superior and had to dash out halfway through the performance to sing Land of Hope and Glory at the Last Night of the Proms before dashing back for the last bit of The Sound of Music. I actually saw the Trapp Family perform in USA as well.

I guess that makes me pretty old!!!

RAMBLER

Catchy songs, brilliant acting, Good storyline and sub plots. I find the 'older' movies have more to offer to the whole audience, not just these shoot and die films that are in the pictures now.

Julie Andrews was on Film 2005 as well (doing the tour) and spent over half of the time talking about The Sound of Music, rather than her latest offering -says a lot doesn't it...

KizzyK_2

Edinburghlass wrote:

Anyone been to one of these Sing-a-longa Sound of Music? I haven't but I believe everyone dresses up as the characters and the words are on the screen just incase people don't know them.

Yep And sing a long Rocky Horror......... :T :T :T

I love it, so much fun and nobody telling you to shut up hehe

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KizzyK wrote:

Yep And sing a long Rocky Horror......... :T :T :T

I love it, so much fun and nobody telling you to shut up hehe

Hi I went to see Mama Mia, and at the front of the theatre were all these strange people dressed as abba look-a-likes.complete with crocheted hats and satiny trews.Great show though and the music was good fun. I love musicals and I know they are expensive to produce but give such lasting enjoyment.I remember taking my two little girls to see Evita in London-they are grown up mums themselves now- and they really enjoyed it. Another fantastic show Elaine Page and David Essex were terrific.
Long live live music

Norman-B

I have been to the "Sing a long" version of the SOM, twice. If you want a good laugh and a sing song, go! A good evening for all the family.

lilac_lady

Years ago I took my then 15 year old daughter to see The Rocky Horror Show in London. (she's 30 now!). There was me in my Marks & Spencers outfit in the middle of all the suspenders etc. (I idn't know anything about the show till I saw it) I loved he show, daughter swallowed her embarrassment at being with me and loved it too. Anthony Head - the coffee advert and now PM in ittle Britain was in it - Sometimes I put on the video or CD and have a little Rocky Show thing when I'm doing housework. Ahh...... memories.

Jay-Jay_4

A couple of years ago we'd just got a widescreen TV and surround sound, I had my Nan around and I put on the Sound of Music for her. She was absolutely thrilled and told me that it was the first colour film that she'd ever seen at the cinema. She remembered that it was very quiet at first and then the music started and it was so colourful that she couldn't believe her eyes


She died very recently and I think that the Sound of Music will always remind me of her, forever

Edinburghlass_2

Norman-B wrote:

I have been to the "Sing a long" version of the SOM, twice. If you want a good laugh and a sing song, go! A good evening for all the family.

Just had an email from a friend to say we now have tickets for "Sing-a-long" Sound of Music in a week or so :j

Anyone got a Mother Superior costume I can borrow