twentieth century fox owns the rights for the stage musical of the sound of music.
twentieth century fox owns the rights for the stage musical of the sound of music.
who owns the rights for the stage musical of the sound of music?
twentieth century fox
in 1956, paramount pictures purchased the united states film rights, intending to produce an english-language version with audrey hepburn as maria. the studio eventually dropped its option, but one of its directors, vincent j. donehue, proposed the story as a stage musical for mary martin. producers richard halliday and leland heyward secured the rights and hired playwrights howard lindsay and russel crouse, who had won the pulitzer prize for "state of the union". they approached richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein ii to compose one song for the musical, but the composers felt the two styles—traditional austrian folk songs and their composition—would not work together. they offered to write a complete new score for the entire production if the producers were willing to wait while they completed work on "flower drum song". the producers quickly responded that they would wait as long as necessary. "the sound of music" stage musical opened on november 16, 1959 at the lunt-fontanne theatre in new york city and ran on broadway for 1,443 performances, winning six tony awards, including best musical. in june 1960, twentieth century fox purchased the film adaptation rights to the stage musical for $1.25 million () against ten percent of the gross.
the sound of music (film)
bullet::::- laura michelle kelly, in the original west end and broadway productions of the stage musical.









































bullet::::- ashley brown, in the original broadway and original us tour productions of the stage musical.









































bullet::::- scarlett strallen, in the london and broadway productions of the stage musical.









































bullet::::- bianca marroquín, in the mexican production of the stage musical.









































bullet::::- lisa o'hare, in the london and uk tour production of the stage musical.









































bullet::::- caroline sheen, in the original uk tour and us tour productions of the stage musical.









































bullet::::- linda olsson, in the swedish production of the stage musical.
mary poppins (character)