A lavish production of one of the world’s most beloved musicals is set to open in Sydney ahead of an Australian tour.

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Executive Producer Craig Donnell (below) welcomed media to a preview of the Australian season of The Sound of Music.

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Associate Director Gavin Mitford (left, below) has returned to Australia to helm this tour.

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This new production was created for London’s Palladium Theatre in 2006, where it played for over two years before embarking on a UK tour.

The lead role of Maria was cast in London by reality show How Do You Solve A Problem like Maria?. For the Australian tour, fast rising music theatre star Amy Lehpamer (below) is playing everyone’s favourite postulant-turned-nanny Maria Rainer.

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Perennially boyish charmer Cameron Daddo will star as Captain Georg von Trapp.

Longtime Australian music theatre star Marina Prior (below) plays the elegant Baroness Elsa Schraeder.

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David James is Elsa’s close friend Max Detweiler.

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Acclaimed opera star Jacqueline Dark (below) plays Mother Abbess.

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For today’s media call, Lehpamer and the children performed the classic “Do Re Mi.”

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Dark sang the towering hymn “Climb Ev’ry Mountain.”

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The von Trapp children performed the delightful charm song “So Long, Farewell.”

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“I’d like, to stay. and taste my first champagne. Yes?”

“No!”

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The full company of The Sound of Music

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The Sound of Music is set to play in Sydney until the end of February, before touring to Brisbane, Melbourne and Adelaide.

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Photos: Simon Parris