By Daily Press staff
This weekend, the hills are alive with the sound of live theater. The Santa Monica Civic Light Opera (SMCLO) presents Roger and Hammerstein’s “The Sound of Music.” The troupe will perform tonight at 8 p.m., on Saturday at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m., and will close on Sunday, with a 2 p.m. show. The venue is Barnum Hall, the 1,200-seat, newly restored main stage performance space. The SMCLO cast from The Sound of Music is comprised of professionals, Samohi theatre alumni, and current high school students. Since 1989 the SMCLO has been producing full-scale summer musicals in Barnum Hall every summer.
For those not sold on the merits of the musical itself, the movie “The Sound of Music” starring Julie Andrews won five Oscars, and the Broadway show ran for 1,443 performances and garnered six Tony awards.
Following the close of The Sound of Music in Santa Monica, the troupe will give an encore performance of The Sound of Music on Wednesday, July 26 at 7 p.m. in the historic Avalon Casino Theater, and the following night they present a 90-minute, one-act, cabaret-style, musical revue, called “Showstoppers” on Thursday, July 27 at 8 p.m. in the Avalon Ballroom.
Tickets are $20 and $25 for matinees, and $25 and $30 for Friday night. For additional information, call (310) 458-5939, or visit SMCLO online at www.smclo.org. Aero can’t stop the music
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on July 21, 2006. Read the original PDF.