On March 2, 1965, The Sound of Music was released in the United States and the love affair between moviegoers and the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical was on.
He lives in New York City..
He has worked for the past twenty years in New York theater as a manager of more than two dozen Broadway shows.
About the Author Tom Santopietro is the author of The Godfather Effect, The Importance of Being Barbra, Considering Doris Day (a New York Times Editor\'s Choice), and Sinatra in Hollywood.
Tom Santopietro\'s The Sound of Music Story is a book for everyone who cherishes this American classic.
We all know that Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer played Maria and Captain Von Trapp, but who else had been considered? Tom Santopietro knows and tells all while providing a historian\'s critical analysis of the careers of director Robert Wise and screenwriter Ernest Lehman, a look at the critical controversy which greeted the movie, the film\'s relationship to the turbulent 1960s, and the super stardom that engulfed Julie Andrews.
Santopietro looks back at the real-life story of Maria von Trapp, goes on to chronicle the sensational success of the Broadway musical, and recounts the story of the near cancellation of the film when Cleopatra bankrupted 20th Century Fox.
Tom Santopietro has written the ultimate Sound of Music fan book with all the details from behind-the-scenes stories of the filming in Austria and Hollywood to new interviews with Johannes von Trapp and others.
Rarely has a film captured the love and imagination of the moviegoing public in the way that The Sound of Music did as it blended history, music, Austrian location filming, heartfelt emotion, and the yodeling of Julie Andrews into a monster hit.
On March 2, 1965, The Sound of Music was released in the United States and the love affair between moviegoers and the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical was on
