Sound of Music: Amy has big lederhosen to fill alongside Cameron Daddo

YOU may not have heard her name, but Amy Lehpamer is about to step into arguably the biggest role in musical theatre history.

YOU may not have heard her name, but Amy Lehpamer is about to step into arguably the biggest role in musical theatre history.

Lehpamer was announced to play the part of Maria Rainer in the London Palladium production of The Sound Of Music yesterday.

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Cameron Daddo will play the unsmiling Captain von Trapp with stage veteran Marina Prior rounding out the ­famous love triangle as the Baroness Schraeder.

“I learned so much about music watching The Sound Of Music growing up and ­particularly through ­watching Julie Andrews, ­exciting doesn’t even start to describe how I felt when I got the part,” Lehpamer told arts writer Mercedes Maguire.

“The movie really was my song book, it’s what I grew up with.”

From left, Marina Prior, Cameron Dado and Amy Lehpamer at the cast announcement.

Australian producer John Frost says he struggled with whether to cast a big name to play Maria or a relative unknown with a pedigree career, and chose Lehpamer for her stage credits, calling her “an exciting new talent” and a “new face on the horizon”.

Joining Lehpamer on stage is Daddo, who joked at yesterday’s cast announcement that the role of Captain von Trapp was perfect for him as his godfather has always called him and his performing siblings “the Von Daddos”.

“Despite that family joke, I wasn’t brought up on The Sound Of Music. My dad was into spaghetti westerns, so that’s what we watched,” Daddo says.

“But ever since John (Frost) called me about the role, I’ve been watching it.”

Prior added she hopes to bring a little depth to the unlikeable baroness, who even gets hissed and booed by her five children when they watch the movie at home.

 

The Sound Of Music opens at The Capitol Theatre on December 13.