Theater: Sing-A-Long Sound Of Music
"I don't remember it being this funny" is the constant refrain at the Ziegfeld Theatre in Manhattan, where the 1965 film The Sound of Music is getting The Rocky Horror Picture Show treatment. Viewers are invited to arrive in costume, sing along with every musical number as the film plays and comment out loud about the events on screen ("I'm gay!" shout several people whenever Uncle Max announces he has a surprise for the children). Some younger kids might be frightened by the spectacle of hundreds of New Yorkers, a few in drag, belting out So Long, Farewell, but as it did in the London version of this extravaganza, the giddy collegiality will keep most older audience members happy.
--By Benjamin Nugent
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