The Sound of Music

After a rehearsal period of only eight weeks after the pantomime, CAMPS really pulled out the stops to stage this classic musical – one of their favourites and repeated after a gap of ten years. For Producer Ciss McCreadie, it was the last show before she finally “hung up her boots” and the Society is ever grateful to her for her devotion to its development. The introductory first four scenes in and near the Nonnberg Abbey were sympathetically drawn and acted with Anne Hainey as the Mother Abbess and Kirsty Langfield, Laura Fleming and Kirsty Mackie as Sisters Berthe, Margaretta and Sophia. Those scenes also introduced us to Maria, played and sung beautifully by Lyndsay Cook whose work later with the von Trapp children and her main musical numbers are the heart of the show. The seven Children were well chosen and each had his or her distinctive character.
William Hainey played a powerful Captain Georg von Trapp – stern at first but suitably mellowing as the plot unfolded. Ruth Douglas took the part of the somewhat distant Baroness Elsa von Schraeder with Dempster Slimmon cast as the politically wavering impresario Max Dettweiler and Philip Doole as the sinister Herr Zeller. Matt McCreadie took the role of the devious Franz, the Butler and Tommy Campbell played the equally devious telegraph boy Rolf who redeemed himself at the end by not divulging the whereabouts of the children. This show exhibited the Society at its best and all involved can be justly proud of the results.
 

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