Publicity shots
As the production gets closer to opening night, attention turns to marketing and ticket sales. The actors will take publicity photos to give potential audience members a preview of what they might see in the show. In 1959, Rodgers and Hammerstein took members of the production team for The Sound of Music to the hills of Vermont.
The actors were put into their 1930s Austrian costumes. Actress Mary Martin, in her role as Maria, and several of the children, bound across the hills while the cameras snapped. This image, with Maria running, surrounded by the children in her charge, would inspire the artwork for the 1965 film version starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer.