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In what year was the musical ‘The Sound of Music’ first performed on Broadway?

  • 1950

  • 1960

  • 1959

  • 1965

Answer

The Sound of Music was first performed on Broadway in 1959. It is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, and is based on the 1953 memoir of Maria Augusta Trapp, The Story of the Trapp Family Singers. The musical tells the story of Maria, an Austrian postulant who becomes governess to the seven children of Captain Georg von Trapp, a widower.
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