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The Sound of Music
Novice nun Maria is sent to be the governess of the Von Trapp children.
Format: Musical
Notes:
Music by Richard Rodgers; lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II; book by Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse.
Snapshot
Original or Prominent Production:
Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, New York, November 16, 1959.
Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, New York, November 16, 1959.
Original Source Material: Based on The Trapp Family Singers by Maria Augusta Trapp.
Nationality of Author: U.S.
Original Language: English
Production Rights Holder:
Experience(s) Chronicled: Germany, Hitler and the Growth of Nazism
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Lifetime Achievement Award
The National Jewish Theater Foundation presented its 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award to Alfred Uhry. The presentation took place as part of the Lincoln Center Library event on January 27th 2025 in commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on the 80th Anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz
Lifetime Achievement Award
On September 30, 2024, French playwright, Mr. Jean Claude Grumberg received the Lifetime Achievement Award. It was presented by NJTF HTII President, Arnold Mittelman with Dominique Trimbur, PhD-Manager for the History of Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust, Teaching of the Holocaust of Fondation Pour La Memoir de la Shoah Project.