Clare Henney: November 2010

The Sound of Music has always been one of those movies that will take me back to my childhood. It’s an old movie – it’s older than I am and was probably first shown when my own parents were kids themselves – but it is timeless. I have gotten my niece to watch it several times and she enjoys it too, particularly the puppet show for the baroness scene. That makes three generations in my family who like the movie.

When I heard and saw online that the cast of the movie had a reunion on Oprah, I was very excited. I’ve always wondered how the kids in the movie turned out. I’ve seen both Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer in movies (The Princess Diaries and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, respectively) but the kids from the show haven’t been in movies or TV for a long time now so it was great to see them on TV. It was amazing to find out that the cast has not been together in the last 20 years. It was a reunion not just for the audience but for them as well. It was cute to hear Julie Andrews talk about how everyone grew up OK like the mother that she had been to the kids in the movie. I was amazed that I could look at the faces of the children as adults and still recognize them, the easiest to recognize of which have been the kids who played Kurt, Friedrich and Leisl. I think even if they were not introduced I think I could tell which actor was which character in the movie.