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Carrie Underwood
PLAYED MARIA on the 2013 NBC live television broadcast of THE SOUND OF MUSIC.
ORIGINALLY FROM Muskegee, OK, born 1983.
GOT HER BIG BREAK as winner of the 4th season of the television program “American Idol.”
SHE’S ALSO FAMOUS as a multi-‐Grammy winning recording artist, having sold 15 million albums worldwide. She’s won 7 American Music Awards, 6 People’s Choice Awards, 9 CMT Music Awards, 9 American Country Awards and 7 BMI Songwriter Awards.
THE PRESS SAID: “…while she sang “Do-‐Re-‐Mi” and “The Sound of Music” (“The Hills Are Alive”) with lyricism and real power, Ms. Underwood doesn’t have a lot of experience or natural stage presence: She delivered her spoken lines with all the inflection and spontaneity of an in-‐flight safety video.” – Alessandra Stanley, The New York Times
Mary Martin
PLAYED MARIA in the original Broadway production of THE SOUND OF MUSIC IN 1959.
ORIGINALLY FROM Weatherford, TX, born 1913, died 1990
SHE GOT HER BIG BREAK on Broadway in Cole Porter’s LEAVE IT TO ME
SHE’S ALSO FAMOUS for originating Nellie Forbush in SOUTH PACIFIC and the title role in PETER PAN. She also appeared in JENNIE and I DO! I DO!, led the London cast of HELLO, DOLLY! and was a Kennedy Center Honoree in 1989. She won four Tony Awards.
THE PRESS SAID: “[Mary Martin] still has the same common touch that wins friends and influences people, the same sharp features, goodwill and flowing personality and the same plain voice that makes music sound intimate and familiar… The sound of music is always moving. Occasionally it is also glorious.” – Brooks Atkinson, The New York Times
Marie Osmond
PLAYED MARIA in the 1994-‐95 national tour of THE SOUND OF MUSIC.
ORIGINALLY FROM Ogden, UT, born 1959
SHE GOT HER BIG BREAK at age three performing on The Andy Williams Show
SHE’S ALSO FAMOUS as a recording artist with over 35 albums and numerous gold records, many with her brother, Donny Osmond. Made her Broadway debut as Anna in THE KING AND I, has a very successful Vegas show, and is a co-‐founder of the Children’s Miracle Network.
THE PRESS SAID: “As for Osmond as Maria — well, typecasting refuses to die. Yet her Maria defies the stereotype, for she is a truly rebellious, playful spirit
who looks young enough for the kids to trust her as a co-‐conspirator, and who matures convincingly as Captain Von Trapp’s consort… Not only that, she sings well. Forget the misleadingly sappy posters: she is a more interesting Maria than that.” -‐ Richard S. Ginell, Variety
Nancy Dussault
PLAYED MARIA in the original Broadway production of THE SOUND OF MUSIC, beginning in 1962.
ORIGINALLY FROM Pensacola, FL, born in 1936
STUDIED AT Northewestern University
SHE GOT HER START in a Tony Award winning turn as Tilda Mullen in DO RE MI in 1960.
SHE’S ALSO FAMOUS for Broadway productions of BAJOUR, SIDE BY SIDE BY SONDHEIM and INTO THE WOODS. Television credits include “The New Dick
Van Dyke Show” and “Mad About You,” and she was the first anchor of “Good Morning America” in 1975.
Rebecca Luker
PLAYED MARIA IN the 1998 Broadway revival of THE SOUND OF MUSIC
ORIGINALLY FROM Birmingham, AL, born 1961
STUDIED AT University of Montevallo
SHE GOT HER BIG BREAK as Sarah Brightman’s understudy and eventual replacement in the Broadway production of THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA in 1988.
SHE’S ALSO FAMOUS for Tony nominated roles including Winifred in MARY POPPINS , Marian Paroo in THE MUSIC MAN and Magnolia in SHOWBOAT. Myriad Off-‐Broadway, opera, symphonic and television credits.
THE PRESS SAID: “Although she pays homage to the most famous of Marias with a few of those bewildered hands-‐on-‐the-‐head gestures that were Ms. Andrews's signature, she doesn't try to match her predecessor's starched poise. If Ms. Andrews was the dream governess, Ms. Luker is much more a girl's girl, and when she romps with her young charges, she seems like one of the gang. This persona doesn't provide the solid charismatic anchor that Ms. Andrews brought to the film, but it does allow Maria to grow visibly into adulthood when she falls in love with the Captain.” – Ben Brantley, The New York Times
Florence Henderson
PLAYED MARIA at age 19 in the national tour of THE SOUND OF MUSIC
ORIGINALLY FROM Dale, IN, born 1934
STUDIED AT The American Academy of Dramatic Arts
SHE GOT HER START in the Broadway production of WISH YOU WERE HERE in 1952, then scored the role of Laurey in the 1953 revival of OKLAHOMA!
SHE’S ALSO FAMOUS for the role of Carol Brady on “The Brady Bunch,” as well as the title role in FANNY, THE GIRL WHO CAME TO SUPPER on Broadway, and Nellie Forbush in the national tour of SOUTH PACIFIC. Later one the most recognizable product spokespersons on television.
Petula Clark
PLAYED MARIA in the 1981 West End production of THE SOUND OF MUSIC.
ORIGINALLY FROM Epsom, Surrey (United Kingdom), born 1932
SHE GOT HER BIG BREAK entertaining WWII soldiers over the BBC airwaves.
SHE’S ALSO FAMOUS as a singer and songwriter, with tunes including “Downtown,” “I Know a Place,” “Colour My World” and “A Sign of the Times;” a screen actress in over thirty British and American films, including “Finian’s Rainbow” and “Goodbye, Mr. Chips;” and a stage actress in BLOOD
BROTHERS and SUNSET BOULEVARD.
THE REAL MARIA VON TRAPP SAID: "If I never see The Sound Of Music again, this is the way I want to remember it -‐-‐ and I want to remember Petula's performance as the greatest performance of Maria."
Julie Andrews
PLAYED MARIA in the 1965 film version of THE SOUND OF MUSIC
ORIGINALLY FROM Walton-‐on-‐Thames, Surrey (UK), born 1935
STUDIED AT the Cone-‐Ripman School (now known as ArtsEd)
SHE GOT HER BIG BREAK at age 19 making her Broadway debut in THE BOY FRIEND.
SHE’S ALSO FAMOUS FOR creating the Broadway roles of Eliza Doolittle in MY FAIR LADY and Guinevere in CAMELOT, award-‐winning televisions performances as the title roles in “Mary Poppins” and “Cinderella,” and fundraising with the United Nations International Fund for Women, Operation USA, Save the Children, and the Foundation for Hereditary Disease.
THE PRESS SAID “Miss Andrews, with her air of radiant vigor, her appearance of plain-‐Jane wholesomeness and her ability to make her dialogue as vivid and appealing as she makes her songs, brings a nice sort of Mary Poppins logic and authority to this role… She plays a more saccharine nanny than Mary Poppins, but it doesn't get her goat.” – Bosley Crowther, The New York Times
Laura Benanti
PLAYED MARIA in 1999, stepping in for Rebecca Luker in the 1998 Broadway revival
ORIGINALLY FROM New York, NY, born 1979
SHE GOT HER BIG BREAK following THE SOUND OF MUSIC with a Tony nominated performance in the Broadway revue SWING
SHE’S ALSO FAMOUS FOR her Tony Award winning performance as Gypsy Rose Lee in GYPSY, Tony nominated performances as Cinderella in INTO THE WOODS and WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN, and myriad featured television credits,
including leads on “The Playboy Club” and “Starved,” and the role of Elsa Schraeder in the 2013 NBC live broadcast of “The Sound of Music.”
THE PRESS SAID: “…charming, silken voiced” – Peter Marks, The New York Times
"Unaffectedly graceful and with a bell-‐clear voice, this newcomer is surely a star in the making." – Newsday
Abigail Paschke
ORIGINALLY FROM Westchester County, NY
STUDIED AT Carnegie Mellon University (BFA) and UC College-‐Conservatory of Music (MFA)
SHE GOT HER BIG BREAK playing Maria in The Carnegie / Kentucky Symphony co-‐production of THE SOUND OF MUSIC (!)
SHE’S ALSO BUSY with a burgeoning opera career that has included credits at Virginia Opera, Kentucky Opera, Opera Saratoga, Sarasota Opera, and recently at Des Moines Metro Opera.
THE PRESS SAID: “Soprano Abigail Paschke was sprightly and charming, exhibiting a voice as clear and acrobatic as one could wish. – Terry Ponick, The Washington Times
Catch THE SOUND OF MUSIC at The Carnegie, weekends Jan. 17 – 26, 2014.
Tickets are $19 - $28 and are available online at www.thecarnegie.com or
by calling The Carnegie Box Office at (859) 957-1940 (open Tu - Fr, noon - 5
pm).
