We were surrounded by nuns, people dressed in curtains and lederhosen and even a nazi or two. Pauline and I had a most unusual yet enjoyable night out at the Regal Theatre in Subiaco last night. We were at a sing along version of The Sound of Music.
We chose not to get dressed up for the occasion but plenty did. There were girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes, brown paper packages tied up with string and a whole lot more.
Calling all Nuns, Goat herders, Hills, Alps, Baronesses, Brown Paper Packages Tied up with String or any of your favourite things!!
Get ready to yodel down under… Sing-a-long-a Sound of Music
is coming back to town! This is your chance to sing-a-long to the most successful movie musical of all time. This is one of the funniest, most liberating nights out you will have for a long time.Sing-a-long-a Sound of Music is not just a chance to see the classic movie on the big screen in magnificent technicolor and glorious cinemascope, it’s a major audience participation event with subtitles for the songs.
It was my favourite kind of audience participation event. No one was forced or cajoled into taking part in the singing or the various other activities but those who wanted to had more than enough opportunity. I didn’t sing along with every song but I gave my vocals a work out at various times throughout the movie.
As we entered we were all given a bag of goodies including a small piece of curtain material, some plastic edelweiss, an invitation to the Captain’s ball, a party popper and a couple of other bits and pieces. Each item came out of the bag at the appointed time during the movie. We were also given instructions to boo the nazis, ooh and ah whenever Gretel appeared, hiss the baroness and do various other things at various times.
Even amongst the fun and frivolity the movie brought back memories of watching the Sound of Music many, many years ago. It was a great feel good evening all round.
I understand that a sing along version of Grease is currently playing elsewhere in Australia. Maybe it’ll make it to Perth eventually. Maybe I’d even get dressed up for that one.
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I went to that 10 years ago at the same venue. It was a lot of fun! I came as a brown paper package tied up with string because it was the easiest thing at the time, but the paper kept scrunching during the show so I took it off.
You should have dressed up 🙂 Afetr the show I went to, a whole group of men dressed as nuns went running through the streets of Subi. It caused quite a bit of interest to say the least.