ABSTRACT
Forty-five years after the release of Robert Wise’s film adaptation of The Sound of Music (1965), the actors who depicted the Trapp family reunited on The Oprah Winfrey Show. In a high-profile episode near the end of her show’s run, Winfrey gushed, the players reminisced, and descendants of the original Trapp children sang on stage. Despite the fact that the film had been broadcast dozens of times on television and released and re-released in various DVD editions and anniversary packages, the Oprah event was unique, for previous public cast reunions and filmed commemorations had not included Christopher Plummer. He never gave a reason—even in his 2008 memoir—but it is not hard to guess why. Throughout his long career, the Canadian actor held the project in special disdain, referring to it as “The Sound of Mucus,” doling out crumbs of gratitude for it getting him good seats in restaurants.
