Evoking the sheer prowess of an iconic rock band like AC/DC and their landmark record “Back in Black” is a tall task, but the Black Jacket Symphony is up to the task. Back in 2009, the group’s founder ...

As the guitar-strumming will-o'-the-wisp Maria von Trapp, Julie Andrews taught us a few of her favorite things. And six decades on, "The Sound of Music" is still one of ours. Based on Rodgers and ...

Duane Chase, born Dec. 12, 1950, in Los Angeles, Calif., had only three film roles during his brief acting career but one changed his life. Chase left his mark portraying Kurt, one of the Von Trapp ...

It's that time of year, when the fictionalized retelling of the von Trapp family and in particular, Maria von Trapp, escape from Austria as it is annexed by Nazis Germany, comes to prime time. This ...

The first audiences to ever hear the songs “Climb Ev’ry Mountain,” “Do-Re-Mi,” “My Favorite Things,” “Sixteen Going on Seventeen,” “So Long, Farewell” and the rest of the score for one of the most ...

“The Sound of Music” is a curiously polarizing musical. There are those who view it as irredeemable schlock. Its detractors included the late Christopher Plummer, who starred in the 1965 film version ...

Before getting to what was done just with the music, let’s talk about some of the sensory extremes involved in the 1939 film’s 4D upgrade. “Obviously, the tornado is an opportunity for us to do ...