The Sound of Music by Hirsch Julia Antopol;

Author:Hirsch, Julia Antopol;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Published: 2017-05-06T04:00:00+00:00

Dorothy Jeakins discusses her costume sketches with Christopher Plummer and Robert Wise.

After she sketched a few costumes for the film’s leads, Jeakins and Wise met with the stars, who offered their own suggestions. Andrews and Dorothy Jeakins were good friends, and Andrews had enormous respect for the designer’s abilities.

“I’ve never felt as beautiful as when I wore that wedding gown,” said Andrews. “I’ve never felt prettier before or since. That dress was a miracle.”

Rehearsals began in mid-February. The children started rehearsing on February 10, Julie Andrews was set for February 20, Christopher Plummer began on March 2, and the nuns started on March 19. There were no scene rehearsals per se; the rehearsal period consisted of learning the dance sequences, doing wardrobe and photographic tests, and prerecording the music. The choreographers, Marc Breaux and Dee Dee Wood, were hired on February 3, 1964. They were the husband-and-wife team that had worked with Julie Andrews on Mary Poppins. Breaux and Wood had one week of preparation with Wise and Chaplin before rehearsals began. The four of them would meet and discuss the characters, then Breaux and Wood would go into the rehearsal room with a couple of assistants and start playing around with the music. Saul Chaplin would usually play the piano while they worked out the timing of the movements.

“We couldn’t change the arrangements at all under Rodgers and Hammerstein’s contract,” said Breaux. “So we had to work within the confines of what music was already there.” Breaux and Wood didn’t use the choreography that was in the play; the stage choreography was too restrictive.

As Wise wrote later in his Los Angeles Times article, “On stage, the choreography is necessarily confined to the limits of the proscenium arch. We have no such strictures [with film] and can permit the dancing to flow out of the bounds of the other areas. It not only serves to broaden the scope of the number itself, it helps to serve as a bridge to the ensuing scene.”

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