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These Are A Few of My Favorite Facts About ‘The Sound of Music’

6. The stage musical almost didn’t happen

Before it was a movie, The Sound of Music was a hit Broadway show starring Mary Martin. There were many people trying to turn Maria’s story into a musical…but at first she wasn’t having any of it. By the late 1950s she was actually living as a missionary in the South Pacific and would rip up letters she would get about creating a stage production of her memoir The Story of the Trapp Family Singers. But then Richard Halliday and Mary Martin literally waited for her to arrive on a return trip to the U.S. and convinced her it was a good idea by taking her see Mary perform in Annie Get Your Gun.

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