The Sound of Music

It's been around 45 years since Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer teamed up in the 1965 Academy Award winning musical, The Sound of Music.  While still quite active, both of these actors are nearly approaching their eighties, and whenever I hear any song from the musical, I automatically think of them when they were in their prime.  Such a wonderful movie!  The story takes place in the years just before the Second World War, and tells us of the life of the Von Trapp family singers--of their governess Maria, a former novice, who falls in love with Captain Von Trapp and becomes stepmother to 6 children.  As Captain Von Trapp is politically pursued by the Nazi regime, the story tells of their subsequent escape to Switzerland.  It's the classic love story, and Christopher Plummer plays the dashing German aristocrat, while Julie Andrews is perfect as the ex-novice ingenue.  A sucker for tear-jerkers, I always cry every time I watch the prelude to the wedding scene, where the Mother Superior of Maria, tells Maria to "climb every mountain, ford every stream, follow every rainbow, till you find your dream."  These days, I have been seeing the posters for the musical all over the metro--on billboards, on buses, in the newspapers--because a local production group is staging another round at the Resorts World performing theater in front of NAIA Terminal 3.  It just reminds me that some stories are timeless, and will be enjoyed for generations to come.