Sing A Long Sound Of Music

Sing A Long Sound of Music is a sensational musical, based upon the award winning movie of the same name. One of the most popular musicals today in the world, it has gained many a fan across many cities, gathering to its fold all those fond of musicals, music and singing along. It is no surprise that newspapers such as The Independent have praised it as ‘one of the funniest and most extraordinary’. Each day, many buy Sing A Long Sound of Music tickets, to catch a production of this superb musical.
 
Sing A Long Sound of Music is unique, amongst all musicals in production. Brought about by Sing A Long, it is a musical where members of the audience can sing with the cast. This musical, an adaptation of the Sound of Music movie and musical, follows the story of the famous Von Trapp Family of singers, a cast filled with hundreds of singing nuns. It all begins with a live show in which a presented goes through a vocal warmup with members of the audience. There is also a fancy dress competition at the start in which prizes are awarded to the best dressed.
 
The beginning of the Sing A Long Sound of Music musical sees the presenter also guiding audience members on heckles and when to use them, such as bark at Rolf, cheer for Julie Andrews or hiss at the countess, as well as how to make good use of the free goody bag given to everyone. After this, the original movie plays on a large screen, in which the audience is the star of the show, singing along. This is when the true fun begins, with the audience guiding the musical.
 
The very first Sing A Long Sound of Music shows began at the Prince Charles Cinema in London in 1999, where the first eight shows sold out rapidly and received a lot of media coverage, with rave reviews from the leading English newspapers, such as The Independent and The Sunday Times. Following the massive success of the first shows and public demand, they were staged regularly at the Prince Charles Cinema in London, UK.
 
These shows grew to become some of the most anticipated in the UK, with a tour organized in 2000 and visiting every big venue in the UK. A monumental sing a long occurred in 2001 at the Kenwood House, in which seven thousand plus dressed to sing a long outdoors. Soon after, with international demand, the show started visiting other cities, where it is regularly staged. Such cities include Amsterdam in the Netherlands, Dublin in Ireland, New York City, St Louis, Philadelphia and San Francisco in the US, Toronto, Sydney and Melbourne in Australia, Auckland in New Zealand, Oslo in Norway and Stockholm in Sweden.
 
Elton John and forty other celebrities such as Hugh Grant, Lulu, Joan Collins, Neil Tennant of The Pet Shop Boys fame also dressed as nuns and staged the show, in celebration of David Furnish’s birthday. Sing A Long Sound of Music has been praised by the Evening Standard as ‘the best fun’, remarking that anyone who sees it after buying Sing A Long Sound of Music tickets will definitely have ‘a blast’.  The Sunday Times goes a step further with reviewer Tara Palmer-Tomkinson stating that those who haven’t seen this musical should ‘run’ to see it.