The Sound of Music

A superb cast, crisp as a Navy whistle, brings the hills alive in this winning production. Under the masterful direction of Rachel Rockwell, the songs are silk ribbons around a steel cord of moral urgency. Young pros play the love-hungry Von Trapp children with a refreshing naturalness, while Larry Adams’s Captain Von Trapp is the full-throated stoic to Jennifer Blood’s Maria, a comedian with a kangaroo’s spring and maternal sense—she grows up before our eyes, and her expressive singing voice soars.