The Halls are Alive with the Sound of Music

Everyone knows the story of Maria, the Captain and seven singing children.  Very few people know that part of it started right here in River Forest.

In 1958, as Rodgers and Hammerstein began work on what would become one of the most loved musicals ever written, a letter went out from Broadway to a Dominican Sister at what was then Rosary College.  What followed was a friendship, a stack of handwritten letters and an influence on the show that audiences still feel more than sixty years later.

Who was Sister Gregory Duffy, OP, and how did a theatre professor from the western suburbs end up shaping one of the most famous songs in musical theatre history?

Join moderator Sr. Priscilla Wood, OP, for an evening of stories, archival treasures and the surprising history behind a show you thought you knew. Some of it has rarely been shared outside the Dominican community.