With the decades-long, steady stream of holiday airings of the Julie Andrews-powered movie version of “The Sound of Music,”you may well think you’ve already utterly cracked the crowd-pleasing family favorite.

The 1959 Broadway musical version, based on the 1965 American musical drama film, launches Charleston Stage’s 2025-26 season in a beguiling production directed by Marybeth Clark at the Dock Street Theatre.

Inspired by a true story, the musical is the work of composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein, with a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. Both dramatized versions center on the ostensible problem of an Austrian nun-in-training named Maria, as she assumes her reluctant role as nanny to the seven motherless, mischievous von Trapp children.

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