Monticello is alive with ‘The Sound of Music’

Musical set to delight audiences on April 11 and 12

By RICHARD A. ROSS

MONTICELLO, NY — For those who are aficionados of fine high school theatre, the time has come again to attend a wonderful production as Monticello High School gets set to stage Rodgers and Hammerstein’s ‘The Sound of Music” in the Arnold Packer Auditorium on Friday, April 11 and Saturday, April 12 at 7:30 p.m.

Year in and year out, Monticello High School’s productions are enthralling, rife with talent, stunning with their costumes and wonderful sets and sonorous with their fine orchestration and singing.

This year’s show stars Julianna D’Abbraccio as Maria and Daniel Cunningham as Captain Von Trapp in the musical directed by Jennifer Romano, who also served as choreographer. Audiences will be enchanted by Monticello’s fine musical renditions of such favorites as “My Favorite Things,” “The Sound of Music,” Sixteen Going on Seventeen,” and “The Lonely Goatherd,” among others. Producer Dr. Kevin Dirth provides the theatre orchestra direction and vocal music director Snezana Lazich guides the show’s classic numbers. Amy Abraham is the accompanist and Tim Buckley designed the sets and oversaw their construction. No Monticello production would be quite the same without the costumes by Ann Carmeci.

See next week’s review for more on the musicians and the cast.

Tickets are priced at $5 for adults and $3 for students, and can be obtained at the door. Senior citizens are admitted free. For more information call 845/794-8840, ext. 10993.

Click here for pictures of the production. To purchase a CD of the show send a check for $22.50 to The River Reporter, P.O. Box 150, Narrowsburg, NY 12764.