Before summer ends, here's another memory of summer theatre from long ago. Lovely Ann Blyth, whom we lost earlier this summer, stars as Maria in The Sound of Music at the old Melody Top tent theater in Milwaukee, Wisconsin from June 1972. My thanks to Melody Top fan and historian Dan Pagel, who has gathered and preserved a collection of photos and artifacts from that well-loved summer theater.
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