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The stage flew from the stage to the Alps.

Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, who composed and wrote the music and lyrics for the musical version of "The Sound of Music," which premiered on Broadway in November 1959 and was a success, made some arrangements for the film. administer. New additions include " I Have Confidence ," which the main character Maria sings when she leaves the convent and heads to the Trapp family, and " Something Good, " which is sung in the scene where Maria and Colonel Trapp confess their love for each other. The former is to enhance the outdoor location effects in Salzburg, Austria and the dynamic feel unique to the movie, and the latter is to allow the audience to experience the blissful feeling of romance.

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Meanwhile, Richard D. Zanuck also brought in screenwriter Ernest Lehman, who had done excellent work on Hitchcock's `` North by Northwest '' (1959) and `` West Side Story '' (1961), to write the film. We began rearranging the songs in line with the story and changing the setting to take into account the spectacular view of Salzburg that serves as the background.

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As a result, their biggest hit tune, "Do-Re-Mi Song," jumps out of the limited space of the stage and is replaced by a liberating song set against the backdrop of the peaks of the Austrian Alps. Even in the most dramatic sequence in the film, in which the Trapp family's children grow up in the wake of "Do-Re-Mi Song," the Salzburg location was extremely effective. There has yet to be a work that surpasses ``The Sound of Music'' in terms of the exquisite link between the story and the setting.

And then comes Robert Wise.