Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, (11/16/1959 - 11/3/1962)
Mark Hellinger Theatre, (11/6/1962 - 6/15/1963)

Category: Musical, Drama, Original, Broadway
Description: A musical in two acts
Setting: Austria. Early in 1938.

Opening Night Production Credits 

Theatre Owned / Operated by City Playhouses, Inc. (Louis A. Lotito, President)

Produced by Leland Hayward, Richard Halliday, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II

Book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse; Music by Richard Rodgers; Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II; Based on "The Trapp Family Singers" by Maria Augusta Trapp; Musical Director: Frederick Dvonch; Music orchestrated by Robert Russell Bennett; Choral arrangements by Trude Rittman

Directed by Vincent J. Donehue; Musical Staging by Joe Layton

Scenic Design by Oliver Smith; Costume Design by Lucinda Ballard; Lighting Design by Jean Rosenthal; Mary Martin's clothes by Mainbocher; Assistant to Miss Ballard: Florence Klotz; Assistant to Mr. Smith: William Pitkin; Production Assistant to Miss Rosenthal: Marian Kinsella

General Manager: Herman Bernstein; Company Manager: Warren O'Hara; Assistant Co. Mgr: Clayton Cootes

Production Stage Manager: Peter Zeisler; Stage Manager: Randall Brooks; Assistant Stage Mgr: Steven Meyer and Tom Millott

Assistant Conductor: Peter Howard; Music Contractor: Sol Gusikoff

Press Representative: Frank Goodman and Ben Washer; Casting: Edward Blum; Advertising: Lawrence Weiner; Asst. to the Choreographer: Gloria Stevens

Mary Martin	Maria Rainer a postulant at Nonnberg Abbey
Theodore Bikel	Captain Georg von Trapp
Kurt Kasznar	Max Detweiler
Marion Marlowe	Elsa Schraeder
Patricia Neway	The Mother Abbess
Joanne Birks	Ensemble
Patricia Brooks	Ensemble
June Card	Ensemble
Dorothy Dallas	Ensemble
Brian Davies	Rolf Gruber
Ceil Delli	Ensemble
Kathy Dunn	Louisa von Trapp
Luce Ennis	Ursula a maid
	Ensemble
Cleo Fry	Ensemble
Barbara George	Ensemble
Stefan Gierasch	Herr Zeller
Michael Gorrin	Admiral von Schreiber
Joey Heatherton	Ensemble
Lucas Hoving	Ensemble
Elizabeth Howell	Sister Berthe Mistress of Novices
Patricia Kelly	Ensemble
Maria Kova	Ensemble
Evanna Lien	Gretl von Trapp
Mary Susan Locke	Marta von Trapp
Nan McFarland	Frau Schmidt the housekeeper
Shirley Mendonca	Ensemble
Kathy Miller	Ensemble
Lorna Nash	Ensemble
Muriel O'Malley	Sister Margaretta Mistress of Postulants
Lauri Peters	Liesl von Trapp
Keith Prentice	Ensemble
John Randolph	Franz the butler
Nancy Reeves	Ensemble
Marilyn Rogers	Brigitta von Trapp
Bernice Saunders	Ensemble
Connie Sharman	Ensemble
Karen Shepard	Sister Sophia
Kirby Smith	Baron Elberfeld
William Snowden	Friedrich von Trapp
Gloria Stevens	Ensemble
Joseph Stewart	Kurt von Trapp
Tatiana Troyanos	Ensemble
Mimi Vondra	Ensemble
Sue Yaeger	A Postulant

Standbys: Renee Guerin (Maria Rainer), Kenneth Harvey (Captain Georg von Trapp).

Understudies: Dorothy Dallas (Sister Berthe), David Gress (Friedrich von Trapp, Kurt von Trapp), Joey Heatherton (Liesl von Trapp, Louisa von Trapp), Lucas Hoving (Herr Zeller), Elizabeth Howell (Frau Schmidt, The Mother Abbess), Sheppard Kerman (Max Detweiler), Maria Kova (Sister Sophia), Mary Susan Locke (Brigitta von Trapp), Keith Prentice (Rolf Gruber), Nancy Reeves (Sister Margaretta), Karen Shepard (Elsa Schraeder), Kirby Smith (Admiral von Schreiber, Franz), Frances Underhill (Gretl von Trapp, Marta von Trapp).