NEW YORK — A new version of “The Sound of Music” is hitting the road and it’s being led by a fresh-faced beauty from Vermont who really does believe “the hills are alive.”
Kerstin Anderson, 20, has taken off her upcoming semester at Pace University to play Maria in what promises to be a fresh, invigorating version of the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical.
“I love the mountains. I love nature. So I think what I brought into the room was that mountain girl,” said Anderson. “What they told me they were looking for was a tomboy, a country girl. I’m sort of like that.”
Tony Award winner Jack O’Brien, who has helmed such winning Broadway productions as “The Coast of Utopia” and “Hairspray,” is directing the show, which also stars Tony winner Ben Davis as Capt. Georg von Trapp and Ashley Brown as The Mother Abbess.