2022 Spring Fundraiser: The Sound of Music Program Book

2022 Spring Fundraiser

THE SOUND OF MUSIC Wednesday, April 13, 2022 Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre 2400 Flora St | Dallas, TX 75201

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Yana Mintskovsky and Kimberly Ross HOST COMMITTEE

Rivka Altman | Aviva Austein | Michael Baum Shiva Beck | Paige Glazer | Josh Goldman Melanie Kuhr | Rhonda Marcus | Lee Michaels Melissa Plaskoff | Christi Redfearn Katherine Perot Reeves | Janine Reutter Jolene Risch | Melissa Rubel Karla Steinberg | Joann Stokes

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THE SOUND OF MUSIC ACT ONE Preludium “The Sound of Music” .................................................................. Maria “Maria” ... Mother Abbess, Sisters Margaretta, Berthe, Sophia “My Favorite Things”................................... Maria, Mother Abbess “Do Re Mi” .................................................................... Maria, Children “Sixteen Going on Seventeen” ........................................ Liesl, Rolf “The Lonely Goatherd” ........................................... Maria, Children “How Can Love Survive?” ................................. Elsa, Max, Captain Reprise: “The Sound of Music” .......... Maria, Captain, Children “So Long, Farewell” ................................................................. Children “Climb Every Mountain” ......................................... Mother Abbess INTERMISSION ACT TWO “No Way to Stop It”.............................................. Captain, Max, Elsa “An Ordinary Couple” ................................................ Maria, Captain Processional ............................................................................ Ensemble Reprise: “Sixteen Going on Seventeen” .................... Maria, Liesl Reprise: “Do Re Mi” ................................ Maria, Captain, Children “Edelweiss” ................................................ Captain, Maria, Children Reprise: “So Long, Farewell” ............... Maria, Captain, Children Reprise: “Climb Every Mountain” Click here for the complete Dallas Theater Center digital program

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HISTORICAL BACKGROUND The Sound of Music SARA ABOSCH-JACOBSON, PHD | Barbara Rabin Chief Education Officer Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music is set in and around Salzburg, Austria just before the Anschluss (union) of March 12, 1938, during which Adolf Hitler’s Germany annexed Austria into the Reich (empire).

As an Austrian patriot and a devout Catholic, Captain Georg von Trapp strongly opposed Anschluss as it deconstructed his beloved country, absorbing it into Germany.

1938 was a critical year to those living in Germany and Austria. In March, German troops entered Austria to an enthusiastic welcome. As Ruth Maier, a Jewish schoolgirl who observed these events, remarked “all Austrians were celebrating and jumping about in excitement. [Nazi] flags were hoisted, people hugged and kissed each other in sheer joy.”

Photo Credit: Courtesy of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Young Austrians, who are members of the League of German Girls, wave Nazi flags cheering on Germany’s annexation of their country in March 1938.

Austria became a training ground for how to deal with the Jews.

Hitler and the Nazi Party advanced a racist ideal, promoting an Aryan master race. Hitler sought to conquer Europe and beyond, establishing a new empire freed of all racial enemies. An April 1938 vote passed by 99% of the Austrian population approved the annexation and Austria ceased to exist. Jews and Roma could not vote and, while the vote was certainly not fair, it was overwhelming. Those opposing Nazi rule risked imprisonment and death. AntiJewish laws were quickly imposed in Austria. Violence was immediate. Jewish leaders and religious Jews were openly harassed. The 200,000 Austrian Jews had seen the evolution of the Nazi regime in neighboring Germany and were under no illusions. They had to go somewhere, anywhere.

Historical Background pages dedicated by Geraldine Acuña-Sunshine and Gabe Sunshine.

Photo Credit: USHMM, Courtesy of Documentationsarchiv/DES OSTERREICHISCHEN WIDERSTANDES, VIENNA, AUSTRIA Immediately after Anschluss, when Adolf Hitler’s Germany annexed Austria on March 12, 1938, Jews were targeted by Austrians and Germans alike. Here, Jews are forced to scrub sidewalks on their hands and knees as Austrian bystanders look on.

Adolf Eichmann, sometimes called the “architect” of the final solution to the Jewish question, facilitated Jewish emigration, and confiscated Jewish homes and businesses. Austria became a training ground for how to deal with the Jews.

In July, thirty-two countries met at the Evian Conference to consider the refugee crisis. Most were unwilling to accept Jewish immigrants. Still, by December 1939, almost three out of four Austrian Jews had fled the country.

In November, the Nazis centrally coordinated public attacks on the Jews in Germany and Austria. These attacks began on the night of November 9, 1938 and were known as Kristallnacht (Crystal Night or Night of Broken Glass). In Austria, most of Vienna’s synagogues were looted and burned to the ground while fire departments and members of the public stood by and watched.

Across the country, thousands of Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps in Germany, and Jewish businesses were looted and destroyed. Survivor Magie Furst, who settled in Dallas, notes she “remember[s] seeing flames from the window…the synagogue was in flames and the school was destroyed.”

World reaction was intense. Priests and pastors – not just rabbis – and political leaders condemned the attacks. President Franklin Roosevelt responded angrily and recalled the ambassador from Germany for consultation.

Still, there was little public support for increased immigration or an appetite for military action to stop Hitler. It was not until two days after Hitler invaded Poland on September 1, 1939 that Britain and France would declare war on Germany, beginning World War II. This, then, is the backdrop to the events of this beloved musical.

FAITH, LOVE AND CONSCIENCE Director Notes: The Sound of Music KEVIN MORIARTY | Enloe/Rose Artistic Director Dallas Theater Center It’s the best-known movie musical of all time. It’s hard to imagine a fan of musicals who hasn’t seen the opening shot, the camera swirling in over the Alpine meadows to come down over Julie Andrews, twirling in her apron.

But many may not know that the stage musical was commissioned by and created for its original Broadway star: not Julie Andrews, but theater legend Mary Martin (who also created the leading roles in South Pacific and Peter Pan).

Opening on Broadway in 1959, The Sound of Music was the last musical that composer Richard Rodgers and lyrcist Oscar Hammerstein II wrote together.

Hammerstein was diagnosed with stomach cancer while writing the show and died less than a year after it opened.

Despite having transformed the style and content of Broadway musicals through their bold innovations with Oklahoma!, Carousel, and The King and I, the duo’s final show received mixed reviews when it opened. Some critics found it to be too sentimental and out of step with the times. In the same theater season, praise was heaped on the hard-edged cynicism of Gypsy, whose lyrics were written by Hammerstein’s protégé, Stephen Sondheim, while the Pulitzer Prize for Drama went to the satirical political musical, Fiorerllo!

And yet, audiences instantly fell in love with the show. The musical ran for three and a half years on Broadway and nearly twice as long in London, where it became the longest running musical in British history. The original Broadway cast recording occupied the number one position on the Billboard charts for four months. When the film was released, the soundtrack recording was on the Billboard charts for four and a half years. The songs have become part of the fabric of American musical life (one example: Ariana Grande’s song, “7 Rings,” which is based on the melody of “My Favorite Things,” spent eight weeks at number one in 2019).

Despite the ubiquity of the film and the songs, many people don’t know that the play and the movie differ. Songs appear in different contexts and characters have added dimension.

We hope that our production will inspire audiences to experience The Sound of Music with fresh eyes and an open heart.

Director Notes pages dedicated by Jennifer and Peter Altabef.

The dialogue and music are the same as in the original stage production, but our cast and creative team have attempted to shed any preconceived notions of how the design should look or how the characters should be portrayed. Instead of reproducing an old movie on stage, we are approaching the material as if it were a brand-new play.

The Sound of Music illuminates the choices people make when confronted with their deepest fears. Will you open yourself to intimacy with someone you love when you are afraid of your desire? Will you allow yourself to be vulnerable with another person when you have experienced the pain of loss? Will you be an upstander when your fellow citizens capitulate to a genocidal dictator? Will you give up your home and risk your family’s safety rather than be complicit with those who espouse evil? Will you follow God’s calling when racked with fear?

At its simplest, The Sound of Music is a story about romantic and familial love. But Hammerstein understood that loving someone, and accepting love in return, is rarely simple. Whether comically in Oklahoma! or tragically in Carousel, the vulnerability of loving is a recurring theme in many of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musicals. When Maria enters the convent as a means of hiding from her own desire, the Mother Abbess tells her that she must leave. “What you must find is – how does God want you to spend your love.” For Maria, the widowed Captain and his grieving children, the answer is found in creating a new, blended family.

As in all of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s masterpieces, the psychologically driven personal story at the center of The Sound of Music exists within a broader context. Set in Austria in 1938, the love story plays out against the events of the Anschluss, when Hitler’s German army crossed the border into Austria, unopposed by the Austrian military. The Germans were greeted with great enthusiasm and Austria was annexed. Widespread antisemitic actions and political violence followed. Anyone opposing the Nazi rule was subject to arrest, torture and death. Jews were attacked, their businesses seized, their possessions looted. Ultimately, more than 6 million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust. One year after the Anschluss, much of the world was plunged into World War II. In 1959, Broadway audiences would have understood exactly what was at stake for the characters. The people watching the play had fought in and lived through World War II. They had seen the unimaginable horror of the Holocaust.

They had come face to face with the antisemitism, racial hatred and violence of the Nazis. It didn’t need to be overtly depicted on the stage. They would have palpably understood the terrible consequences that would follow when Elsa sings to the Captain that resisting the Germans is useless:

There’s no way to stop it, No you can’t stop it even if you try…

You’re a fool if you worry Over anything but little Number One! The original audiences for The Sound of Music would have enjoyed the many happy moments of the musical even while simultaneously seeing images of destruction in their memories. Our production attempts to make that experience visually manifest on stage for a contemporary audience. We have created a design in which two elements can coexist in the same theatrical space: an intimate story of personal discovery played out against the very real destruction that would soon be wrought by the Nazis.

In The Sound of Music, religious faith helps the characters navigate through moments of crisis. Hammerstein’s lyrics sing with a love of music and nature, both of which he links to spirituality and healing. The first lyrics he wrote for The Sound of Music express Maria’s faith with simplicity and grace: I go to the hills When my heart is lonely, I know I will hear What I’ve heard before.

My heart will be blessed With the sound of music And I’ll sing once more.

Similarly, for Hammerstein the pursuit of faith and personal understanding are connected to the innate moral responsibility to stand up for social justice.

In the first act, the Mother Abbess sings “Climb Every Mountain” to Maria to inspire her to accept her romantic desire for the Captain and her maternal love for his children. At the play’s conclusion, the song returns, but now its meaning has expanded to become a call to action for each person to stand up for righteousness in the broader world.

These ideas about the deep rewards of family, the power of faith, and the solemn obligation of each individual to make the world more just for all had occupied Hammerstein for most of his life. In his final months, surrounded by his family on his farm in Pennsylvania, he wrote the lyrics to “Edelweiss.” This is the culmination of his final song: …bless my homeland forever.

Dallas Theater Center in rehearsal for The Sound of Music and preparing by visiting the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum.

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The Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum does more than most history museums. We inspire visitors to consider the real consequences of their choices. We challenge them to think critically and to become Upstanders. “[The Sound of Music cast and crew] were welcomed to the Museum with enthusiasm and a breadth of knowledge for us to investigate…

On stage, I find strength and courage in that Maria is an ‘upstander.’ I will continue to hold this experience with me as an artist, mother, and human.”

Tiffany Solano | Fraulein Maria Dallas Theater Center

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Dimensions in TestimonySM Theater offers Museum visitors the unique opportunity to interact with virtual Survivors in a specially designed space, where high-definition holographic interview recordings paired with voice recognition technology enable these incredible people to respond to questions from the audience, inviting one-on-one ‘conversation.’

After experiencing The Sound of Music, we invite you to meet and visit with Eva Schloss. Born in 1929, Eva lived with her mother, father, and brother Heinz in Vienna until the Nazis annexed Austria in 1938.

Featured Survivors rotate weekly. Local Dallas Holocaust Survivor Max Glauben featured every Friday. Access is included with Museum admission.

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Aaron Elster “The hunger, the fear, the absolute, total loneliness. What do you do all day? You’re sitting there… [but] I had the ability to daydream.”

Aaron was six when World War II began.

Aaron’s mother arranged for a Polish family to take in her eldest daughter and told Aaron to go with her. That was the last time he saw his mother. Aaron hid in the family’s attic for two years.

This feature dedicated by Leo & Rhea Fay Fruhman Foundation, Beverly and Joe Goldman.

Fritzie Fritzshall “We don’t all have to look the same. We don’t all have to speak the same. We are all human beings and we need to take care of our neighbors.”

In 1944, when the Germans invaded, Fritzie and her family were forced into a ghetto.

Then they were deported to Auschwitz II-Birkenau where her mother and two brothers were murdered. Fritzie worked as a slave laborer for nearly a year before being sent on a death march to Germany.

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Max Glauben “I am a strong believer that we must tell the stories to the youngsters” Max was a child smuggler in the Warsaw Ghetto, where he and his family were confined since its creation until the defeat of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in May 1943.

After the Uprising, he and his family were deported to Majdanek, where his mother and little brother were killed. Max and his father were selected for slave labor and transported to Budzyn, where his father was killed as retribution for three missing inmates. Max was held in four other slave labor camps before being sent on a death march to Dachau.

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Pinchas Gutter “My father found a space for us [where] we were reasonably safe, and he kind of surrounded us with his hands… I always imagined that [his arms were the] wings of an angel because he kept us together.”

When war broke out, his family relocated to Warsaw to be with relatives, eventually moving to the Warsaw Ghetto. Following the Uprising in 1943, Pinchas and his family were discovered and deported to Majdanek. He survived four concentration camps before being sent on a death march to Theresienstadt.

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Sam Harris “I stuck my neck out. When you want to do something, you stick your neck out, then you gotta do it.”

Born in 1935 in Deblin, Poland, Sam was just four years old when the Nazis occupied Poland, making him one of the youngest Survivors of the concentration camps during the Holocaust. Sam and his family were forced to move into the ghetto where they lived for almost three years before it was liquidated in 1942. Sam’s entire family, with the exception of two sisters, were deported to Treblinka and murdered.

This feature dedicated by Abbey Rapoport.

Eva Kor “Getting even has never healed a single person.”

Eva Kor was born in 1934 in Portz, Transylvania, Romania. She had a twin, Miriam, and two older sisters. After the Hungarians annexed their town, the Kor family was sent to the town’s ghetto. Shortly after, they were deported to Auschwitz IIBirkenau. Everyone was gassed upon arrival except Eva and Miriam. The sisters were selected by Dr. Josef Mengele and were experimented on daily.

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Anita Lasker-Wallfisch “As long as we can breathe, we can hope.”

Born in Breslau, Germany in 1925, Anita was the youngest of three girls. In 1942, she attempted to escape to France with her sister, but the two were caught, imprisoned, and eventually deported to AuschwitzBirkenau. Upon arrival, Anita became a member of the infamous women’s orchestra, which helped her survive.

This feature dedicated by Celia and Larry Schoenbrun.

Janine Oberottman “I give life to people who died, and whose lives would be gone, and forgotten. And by talking about it, I bring them back.”

In 1941, the German Army entered Lvov and Janine’s family was forced to move into the ghetto. She escaped and found refuge with an aunt living in a nearby town.

Obtaining papers from a non-Jewish friend, she traveled to Ponikwa where her uncle and grandmother were hiding as Christians.

In 1944, Janine was arrested on suspicion of being Jewish, but the Gestapo lacked evidence. She spent the rest of the war pretending to be Catholic.

This feature dedicated by Alice and Jim Skinner.

Eva Schloss “Everything you do leaves something behind; nothing gets lost. All the good you have accomplished will continue in the lives of the people you have touched.”

When the Nazis annexed Austria in 1938, Eva’s family fled to Belgium and eventually settled in Amsterdam among other Jewish refugee families, including Anne Frank’s family. She went into hiding in 1942. Eva and her family were betrayed in 1944 and sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau. There, her brother and father were killed.

This feature dedicated by Andy Smith and Paul von Wupperfeld.

Adina Sella “I always had to reshape something to achieve parity… I was thrown into situations, and I had to survive again and again.”

In 1939, Adina’s her father was arrested. He was released when Adina’s mother secured visas for the family to move to Italy. After their plans to go to Shanghai fell through, they settled in Arezzo where they posed as Catholics, with Adina and her brother attending a convent school. There, the nuns protected their Jewish identity. When the Germans were advancing towards Arezzo, the nuns and priests at the school warned the family who then fled to Anghiari with the assistance of the Italian underground.

This feature dedicated by Daphne and David Sydney.

Israel (Izzy) Starck “I hope and pray that… every child is going… to learn about the Holocaust and all its ramifications. And I am very happy to say that I am seeing some valid signs that we are heading that way.”

After the Germans invaded in spring 1944, Izzy’s family was taken to the Munkacs Ghetto and then deported to Auschwitz II-Birkenau, where his mother was gassed upon arrival. He lied about his age during the selection process and entered the camp with his father. They were then sent to Mauthausen and separated. Izzy’s father died in Gusen.

This feature dedicated by Jackie and Steve Waldman.

Matus Stolov “I learned from myself and maybe from my mother that in order to survive… you have to be responsible for doing something better for your life yourself.”

Matus was born in 1928 in Minsk, Belorussia.

In 1941, Germany invaded Minsk and built a ghetto around the Jewish section of the city.

Matus’ brother Boris escaped, but Matus and his mother did not. They were able to survive routine executions in the ghetto by hiding with the help of a Christian friend named “Big” Yelena. In 1942, “Big” Yelena arranged for Matus and his mother to be smuggled out of the ghetto by Partisans.

This feature dedicated by the Weitzman, Meyers and Caplan families.

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Now thru June 12, 2022 Using images, audio, interactives, and testimony, Courage and Compassion: The Japanese American World War II provides a 360-degree perspective of the World War II experience of Americans of Japanese ancestry while exploring the relevance of these events today. The exhibition honors people across America who stood up to recognize Japanese Americans as friends, neighbors, and fellow citizens.

Supported by: Texas Instruments Carl B. & Florence E. King Foundation Texas Holocaust, Genocide, and Antisemitism Advisory Commission Exhibition Sponsors: Toyota Orix Orchid Giving Circle Fund at Texas Women’s Foundation

The Girl in the Diary July 14 – December 31, 2022 The Girl in the Diary: Searching for Rywka from the Łódz Ghetto special exhibition focuses on the diary of Rywka Lipszyc, a 14-year-old Orthodox Jewish girl from Poland. Handwritten in a school notebook, it details Rywka’s life between the dates of October 1943 and April 1944. It captures the deaths of her siblings and her parents, and how, despite these tragic events, she never lost hope.

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