music by Richard Rogers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse

Stageworks Academy of the Performing Arts
Leduc, AB
2000

Set in Austria on the eve of the Austrian Anschluss in 1938, this beloved musical tells the story of Maria, a novitiate nun who takes a job as governess to a large family of unruly children. She falls in love with the children, and then their widowed father, who is ordered to accept a commission in the German Navy. His opposition to the Nazis forces them to make a choice to take the children and flee.