The new season of Broadway in San Antonio is almost here and coming up first is ‘The Sound of Music’ from Tuesday September 13 through Sunday September 18 at the Majestic Theatre. Tickets are now on sale for this brand new production which is directed by three-time Tony Award® and will make its San Antonio premiere with eight performances only as part of the 2016-2017 season of North Park Lexus Broadway in San Antonio. Performance times are 7:30p.m. Tuesday through Thursday, 8p.m. Friday, 2p.m. and 8p.m. Saturday and 2p.m. and 7:30p.m. on Sunday. Tickets start at $30 and are available through Ticketmaster online, by phone at (800) 982-ARTS (2787) and at all Ticketmaster outlets including the Majestic Theatre box office. Majestic Theatre box office hours are Monday through Saturday from 10a.m. to 5p.m. and Saturday hours vary. (North Park Lexus Broadway in San Antonio, 2016)

‘The Sound of Music’ is based Maria von Trapp’s memoir “The Story of the Trapp Family Singers” and is set in Austria in 1938. It tells the story of Maria who takes a job as a governess to a large family while she decides if she wants to become a nun. She eventually falls in love with the children and their widowed father Captain von Trapp. The Captain opposes the Nazis so when he is ordered to accept a commission in the German navy he and Maria flee Austria with the children. Ben Davis will play Captain Georg von Trapp, Melody Betts will play The Mother Abess with Merwin Ford as Max Detweiler, Teri Hansen as Elsa Schraeder, Austin Colby as Rolf, Paige Silvester as Liesl and Kerstin Anderson as Maria Rainer. It features the popular songs “My Favorite Things,” “Do-Re-Mi” and the title song “The Sound of Music.” Music is by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. The original Broadway production opened in 1959 and won five Tony Awards® including Best Musical.

Majestic Theatre
224 E Houston St
San Antonio, TX 78205
(210)226-5700