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...picture, based on the Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway hit of 1959 and starring Julie Andrews, opened in March 1965. It has been playing on a reserved-seat-only basis in a mere 131 houses around the country, and in ten months it has grossed Fox $20 million. Salt Lake City has a population of 195,000, but 309,000 people have seen Sound there so far. Similarly, the movie has outpolled the populations of Albany, N.Y., Charlotte, N.C., and Orlando, Fla., and, all told, the show has broken house records in 80 cities...
...album made from a musical is better than sitting through the show-but not this time. Alan Jay Lerner (who wrote the lyrics for the unforgettable My Fair Lady) and Burton Lane (who composed Finian's Rainbow's fine music) miss the Viennese schmaltz of a Hammerstein or a Loewe that would give these songs warmth. Even the soft-sharp voice of Barbara Harris cannot make up for the lack of feeling...
...movie sound track is so wholesome and inspirational that it makes even Mary Poppins, its rival bestseller sound racy. The children, the nuns, and of course Julie Andrews sing Richard Rodgers and late Oscar Hammerstein's last joint score like angels as they extol steeple bells cuckoo clocks, solfeggio, edelweiss...
...SOUND OF MUSIC. The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical about the Trapp Family Singers sometimes swells around an audience like marshmallow cream, but Julie Andrews makes the sticky stuff easy to swallow...
...SOUND OF MUSIC. Julie Andrews founds the Trapp Family Singers and triumphs over Nazis, the Tyrolean Alps, seven adorable moppets and a schmalzy Rodgers and Hammerstein score...