To coincide with the 89th birthday of the much-loved Dame Julie Andrews DBE, Pitlochry Festival Theatre has announced the full cast for its exciting forthcoming production of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic musical The Sound of Music, which plays at the venue from 15 November - 22 December.

Set to lead the production will be Kirsty Findlay as Maria Rainer, who was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role along with the 2016 cast of the National Theatre of Scotland and Live Theatre production of Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour.

Playing alongside Findlay are Ali Watt (The Grand Old Opera House Hotel, Traverse Theatre) as Captain Georg von Trapp, Christian Edwards (Cyrano De Bergerac, Northern Broadsides; ‘West End Producer’ creator) as Max Detweiler, Hannah Baker (A Force To Be Reckoned With, Mikron Theatre) as Elsa Schraeder, Angela Caesar (The Wizard of Oz, The Watermill Theatre) as Frau Schmidt/Sister Berthe, and Sally Cheng (Twelfth Night, Regent’s Park Open Theatre) as Liesl von Trapp.

Joining them will be Lee Drage (All’s Well That Ends Well, Shakespeare in the Square) as Franz, opera singer Kate Milner-Evans (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Leeds Playhouse No.1 National Tour) as Mother Abbess, Elliot Gooch (Sister Act, UK and Ireland tour) as Rolf Gruber, Matthew James Hinchliffe (The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, West End) as Herr Zeller, Ellen Lawford (A Midsummer Night’s Dream, UK tour; Quantum Theatre) as Baroness Elberfeld/Sister Sophia, Lydia Barton Lovett (A Christmas Carol, Pleasure Dome Theatre Company) as Sister Margaretta, Jack Ward (A Streetcar Named Desire, Pitlochry Festival Theatre) as Admiral Von Schreiber/Baron Elberfeld, and Trudy Ward (Sunshine on Leith, Pitlochry Festival Theatre) as Ursula/Fraulein Schweiger/Postulant. All other roles will be played by the cast.

The roles of the von Trapp children will be shared by Benjamin Barenco, Isla MacGregor, Ross Martin, Ailsa Marx, Lily McSherry, Joseph Miranda, Theo Miranda, Millie Nicolson, Tanvi Reddy, Leva Stewart, Martha Swain, and Callie Wilson.

The Sound of Music will be the final production for Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s Artistic Director Elizabeth Newman, before she takes up the role of Artistic Director at Sheffield Theatres.

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