Wimborne Musical Theatre Society 
Tivoli Theatre, Wimborne 
Andrea Pellegrini 
12 June 2025
Set in Austria, the beloved story of The Sound Of Music follows the story of Maria, a girl who is failing miserably at becoming a nun, who is sent to look after the Von Trapp children and become their governess whilst falling in love with their father. A fictional account of a true story. Brought to life in the movie of the same name by Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer.
The show opens with the Nuns of Nonnberg Abbey singing ‘Preludium’ with absolute perfection. The harmonies were amazing and I can honestly say I had goosebumps. The nuns did tremendously with all their numbers. All with wonderful vocals, particularly Selina Rumbold playing Mother Abbess, she was a joy to watch, her rendition of ‘Climb Ev’ry Mountain’ was just beautiful. ‘Maria’ was another stand out from the nuns with lovely vocals from Linda Robbins, Pam Mizon and Jemma Cable.
Special mention to The Band who were fabulous, such a joy to watch a musical with live music!
In this evening’s performance we had the children from the blue team, who were all wonderful. They sang and danced beautifully, all with great expression and showing off the personalities in their characters. They really lit up the stage and gave such impressive performances, well done to all!
Rosie Nye, playing the eldest Von Trapp child, Liesl, shone with such beautiful vocals, her relationship with James Bourner (Rolf Gruber) worked really well and I enjoyed their duet.
David Cooper was perfect in his portrayal of Captain Von Trapp and it was lovely to see his character soften as the story unfolded. Such stage presence and a lovely rich singing voice to boot.
Lauren Ferger-Andrews played Maria in quite a cheeky way which accentuated the sternness of Von Trapp, which worked really well. Her vocals were absolutely stunning and she captivated the audience in every number.
Julie Gower really bought some fun and comedy to her role of Elsa Schrader, great stage presence from her.
Everyone involved in the show should be really proud of themselves, I came away with such a heartwarming feeling and wanting to watch the film again!
The musical numbers, including all the favourites, ‘Maria’, ‘My Favourite Things’, ‘Do Re Mi’, ‘So Long Farewell’, were all sung to perfection, lovers of The Sound Of Music will not be disappointed!
My only bug bears were some mic and sound issues, which will hopefully be ironed out for the next performances, and the set was a little more basic than I expected, but given there were a lot of scene changes I do understand that this would have been difficult to get around.
All in all, a great production and wonderful performances from all involved.
This evening’s show was packed out! Hopefully you can get a ticket, you won’t be disappointed!
