They break into song spontaneously, wear lederhosen, play practical jokes and had to convince their parents to let them perform on stage.
There are many parallels between the modern lives of Sofie, Melanie, Amanda and Justin von Trapp and the mostly true story of their ancestors made famous by the 1965 film classic Sound of Music.
But the four chipper home schooled teens from Montana got in to show business by accident when they recorded themselves singing to cheer up their ailing grandfather, Werner von Trapp --called Kurt in the movie.
Now the real-life great-grandchildren of Georg von Trapp, an Austrian naval captain, and Maria, a prospective nun who became stepmother to seven and mother to three, have picked up where their performing relatives left off after fleeing the Nazis for the United States.[...]
Six years on, the von Trapp Children have toured the world, playing sell-out shows in Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Japan the Philippines and Korea.[...]
They include such Sound of Music favourites as So Long, Farewell and Do-Re-Mi in their repertoire
Some days, even the crustiest traditionalist gets in touch with his inner Jacobin.
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Continuing today's cliché motif, we can thank our lucky stars Julie Andrews isn't singing her heart out on stage with them.
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