The 2015-16 Australian Tour of The Sound of Music will play at Melbourne’s Regent Theatre from 13 May 2016.
This follows the show’s seasons at Sydney’s Capitol Theatre from 13 December this year and at Brisbane’s Lyric Theatre from 11 March 2016. The announcement was made by producers Andrew Lloyd Webber, David Ian, John Frost and the Really Useful Group.
Tickets for the Melbourne season will go on sale to the general public on Saturday 12 September.
This new Australian tour of The Sound of Music will be led by Amy Lehpamer (Once, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels) as Maria Rainer and Cameron Daddo (Legally Blonde, Big River) as Captain Georg von Trapp, starring alongside Marina Prior (Mary Poppins, The Secret Garden) as Baroness Schraeder, Jacqueline Dark (Opera Australia’s Aida, Don Giovanni) as Mother Abbess, Lorraine Bayly (Calendar Girls, The Sullivans) as Frau Schmidt and David James (Playschool, Avenue Q) as Max Detweiler.
Liesl will be played by Stefanie Jones (Once) and Rolf by newcomer Du Toit Bredenkamp. The ensemble cast includes Johanna Allen (Sister Sophia), Eleanor Blythman (Sister Margaretta), Sophie Cheeseman, Colin Dean, William Groucutt, Dominica Matthews (Sister Berthe), Katie McKee, Kathleen Moore, Meredith O’Reilly, Ashleigh Rubenach and Sophie Weiss.
www.soundofmusictour.com.au
