The Center Theater Company brings ‘The Sound of Music’ to Carrboro –

Fifty years after the film’s launch, the Center Theater Company will current their efficiency of “The Sound of Music,” with reveals working from Sept. 12 by way of 28.

“The Sound of Music” is predicated on the true story of Maria Rainer and the von Trapp household from Austria. The manufacturing focuses on Maria, a free-spirited younger lady getting ready to be a nun, who’s placed on project to be a governess for Captain von Trapp’s seven youngsters. She rapidly grows nearer to the youngsters and finally, Captain von Trapp himself. Filled with music, the play tells a transferring story of the bond that unites Maria and the von Trapp household. 

Center Theater Company’s manufacturing of “The Sound of Music” options two rotating casts, referred to by shade. The blue and green casts will alternate all through performances throughout the two-week run of the play. The actors embody native performers and college students of all ages. 

Last Friday evening, Center Theater’s black field theater — which provides an immersive ambiance with a small and intimate setting — was packed, with barely any empty seats remaining. 

Briefly earlier than the present started, Jenny Latimer, the creative director of Center Theater, launched the theater and expressed appreciation for all of the efforts that have been put into the play.

Then, the play started with a choir of the nuns, adopted by an introduction of Maria and her rebellious character. Kayla Petrille, who stars as Maria within the blue forged, drew laughs from the viewers along with her playful presentation of the position. 

Petrille is a musical actress and a voice trainer for quite a few firms, together with Center Theater Company and The Chapel Hill School of Musical Arts. She mentioned she ready for the position by researching the von Trapp household and watching the 1965 film model of “The Sound of Music.” 

“I believe my largest hope anytime anyone sees a musical is that it may be get pleasure from[ed] and that it may sort of be somewhat step exterior of their extraordinary lives the place they will see somewhat little bit of magic,” Petrille mentioned.  “Which I really feel like particularly proper now could be a lot wanted.”

In addition to the enduring array of music, Tracy Bersley, the director of play, added two songs that weren’t included within the film, titled, “How Can Love Survive” and “No Way to Stop it.” These inclusions gave the play a novel twist past what the movie provides.