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In a sense, The Sound of Music was the starting point for this year’s Chichester Festival Theatre summer line-up.

Gina Beck will be our Maria in the piece which offers music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and will be directed by Adam Penford in the main-house from July 10-September 3.

Daniel Evans, whose final year this will be as artistic director in Chichester, said: “The musical has become the cornerstone in our season and not just because it brings in coachloads of people from near and far. Financially speaking it is the economic spine of the season because it will always enable us to commission new work elsewhere in the season on the back of it and to take some risks because of it.

Why The Sound of Music will be Chichester Festival Theatre's summer centrepiece