Famed ‘Sound of Music’ von Trapp household growing TV drama

The hills are nonetheless alive with the sound of music.

The well-known von Trapp household from “The Sound of Music” is growing a dramatic TV collection about their lives following the long-lasting film, which is being billed as “The Crown” meets “This Is Us.”

The scripted drama, referred to as “Baroness,” is being developed by Georg von Trapp’s great-great-grandson Myles von Trapp Derbyshire.

Myles is the New York City-based grandson of Georg’s eldest little one Rupert, who was really depicted as Liesl within the beloved Oscar-winning 1966 film.

Myles, 38, tells Page Six, “There will likely be moments of battle, as with all household, however most significantly there are moments of large power, hope and acceptance.”

Myles continues, “My household is something however boring. There is much more story to be advised. Things that occurred after my household crossed that mountain, and we now have since protected our story … it’s the first time that anybody has performed something submit ‘Sound of Music.’

“My household may be very quiet, we had been raised to dwell in a bubble … however now we’re going communicate up and share our story.”

Myles says the historic drama will likely be a world away from the Rodgers and Hammerstein-created musical and film. It will as an alternative be centered across the household of his grandmother Baroness Henriette von Trapp, who was married to Rupert, the eldest son of Georg von Trapp, performed by Christopher Plummer within the Oscar-winning film.

Henriette was confined to wheelchair at age 22 after affected by polio, however was nonetheless capable of increase six kids, certainly one of them Myles’ mom, Stephanie.

The present will likely be set within the interval after the singing household fled Europe within the early Forties and purchased a farm in Stowe, Vermont, which grew to become a guesthouse referred to as the Trapp Family Lodge.

The household matriarch Maria von Trapp, famously performed by Julie Andrews within the film, will likely be featured as a personality within the present, however her depiction will likely be dramatically totally different. The household insists that Maria was a really loving however strong-willed girl with a mood, and who was a strong driving drive to maintain the household going.

Myles explains, “The factor about Maria is that she is a posh character, you’ll be able to’t inform the story with out her being a part of it. She is unquestionably going to be a personality within the story, however the focus will likely be on my grandmother and my mom. Georg may have already handed.”

The battle over the Trapp Family Lodge, which befell after the dying of Maria in 1987, can also be anticipated to be featured within the collection. The feud was about management of and the earnings from the Lodge, a 93-room, luxurious Austrian-style resort with 100 time-share items on 2,200 acres in Stowe, Vermont.

It first went to trial in 1996, pitting Johannes, the president of the enterprise and the youngest of the von Trapp kids — together with sisters Maria and Rosmarie and brother Werner — towards the youngest sister, Eleonore, their nephew George (the eldest son of Rupert), and 15 different grandchildren.

Johannes and his aspect purchased out the opposite group for $2.56 million in 1995 when he reorganized the lodge. But shortly after Eleonore and their different group argued their shares had been value virtually twice that quantity.

In 1999, the simmering feud was settled by the Vermont Supreme Court which dominated that Johannes and his aspect should pay the rival faction round $3 million.

Johannes and his son Sam von Trapp nonetheless run the lodge and brewery, which was rebuilt and expanded after a devastating hearth in 1980 that killed one visitor and destroyed most of Maria’s possessions.

Myles provides that the present, which has been in growth since 2017, would nonetheless incorporate the weather of hope and household unity from the unique film, saying, “‘Baroness’ goes to convey hope and luxury. We need to return into your front room, offer you a giant hug and remind you that every part goes to be OK.”

The household has been working with head author Rebecca Eskreis, identified for “What Breaks The Ice,” and Jaclyn Alexis (“Revenge” and “Modern Family”).

While Myles insists, “The solely one who might play my grandmother is Meryl Streep,” Eskreis provides of casting, “Because of the significance of the story and the household and the way beloved they’re within the zeitgeist, I believe we’d be aiming for the celebs with this.”

Eskreis continues of the von Trapps, “They are daring and intensely loving individuals. They have been by way of the ups and downs that each one of us have been by way of in our lives.

“And in the identical means that their household was an inspiration by way of the movie, and naturally the play, we really feel this story will likely be equally as inspirational and relatable a couple of household.”

But, requested if this collection could possibly be a musical just like the movie, Myles quips, “Oh god no.”