"A celebration of a beloved movie. Fans of The Sound of Music will find plenty to please them in Santopietro's (The Godfather Effect: Changing Hollywood, America, and Me, 2012) history of the sweeping musical. An enthusiastic close-up of movie history." - Kirkus Review
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Tom Santopietro, author of the New York Times Editor's Choice Considering Doris Day, has now written the ultimate "Sound of Music" fan book with The Sound of Music Story.
Filled with all the inside scoop, The Sound of Music Story ranges from behind the scenes stories of the filming in Austria and Hollywood to new interviews with key participants including Dan Truhitte (Rolf), choreographer Dee Dee Wood, Robert Wise's assistant director Georg Stenitz and Johannes von Trapp himself.
Santopietro looks back at the real life story of Maria von Trapp, goes on to chronicle the sensational success of the Broadway musical, and recounts the story of the near cancellation of the film when the "Cleopatra" debacle bankrupted 20th Century Fox.
We all know that Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer played Maria and Captain Von Trapp, but who else had been considered? Tom Santopietro knows and will explain all, while providing a film historian's critical analysis of the careers of director Robert Wise and screenwriter Ernest Lehman, a look at the critical controversy which greeted the movie, and the film's triumph at the Academy Awards, where it won five Oscars including Best Picture.
Analyzing everything from the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein score, the film's relationship to the turbulent 1960s, the super stardom which engulfed Julie Andrews upon the film's release, to the reasons for this great film's passionate worldwide following amongst neighborhood movie goers and celebrity fans (Rosie O'Donnell, Gwen Stefani and President Ronald Reagan) alike, Tom Santopietro's The Sound of Music Story is a book for everyone who cherishes this American classic.
The Sound of Music Story will be released in both e-Book and hardcover formats on February 17th in the United States and February 26th in United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. It is available to pre-order now at amazon