Do you remember the first time you saw, and heard, The Sound of Music? I do. My grandmother had the soundtrack on vinyl, and I used to put it on the turntable in the big old stereo cabinet and dance around her living room to "Sixteen Going on Seventeen" and "My Favorite Things." Then when I finally saw the movie and glimpsed Julie Andrews – who, I was sure, was really Mary Poppins – I fell hopelessly in love with the whole idea of it.

I don't know if that's what Doug Elkins was thinking when he created the superlatively wonderful Fräulein Maria, but it couldn't have been far off. Elkins is at turns reverent and irreverent in this incredible dance send-up of the original soundtrack, complete with Julie Andrews' belting out "The Sound of Music." The day I saw Elkins' show at Joe's Pub, the athletic and beautiful cast was called out for three curtain calls, the entire multi-generational audience cheering and clapping and smiling. You don't have to know anything about dance to love the vibrant, good-natured energy of Fraulein Maria, and perhaps you'll even remember the first time that you fell in love with the Von Trapp family.

-Lisa

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"Mr. Elkins’s ceaselessly brilliant and often hilarious take on The Sound of Music is a fount of unending movement ideas and about as much visceral pleasure as it’s possible to have in a theater." -The New York Times

"Fräulein Maria lovingly deconstructs The Sound of Music through dance. It transcends parody to become a giddy, wondrous celebration." -Heather J. Violanti, nytheatre.com