It is 50 years since Julie Andrews threw her arms open and declared the hills alive with the sound of music, but still no one has answered a very important question: how do you hold a moonbeam in your hand?
The film that won five Academy Awards and collected big at the box office in 1965 has remained a favourite with successive generations who know it from repeated small-screen showings. But the original The Sound of Music stage show, coming to Dublin’s Bord Gáis Energy Theatre from August 17th, is its own pleasure, as its star, the super-endearing Danielle Hope, has only recently discovered.
