Telluride’s young “Sound of Music” stars strut their stuff in “Sixteen Going on Seventeen”

25 Mar Telluride’s young “Sound of Music” stars strut their stuff in “Sixteen Going on Seventeen”

Telluride Repertory Theatre Company's "The Sound of Music" opens March 26 at the Palm

Popular songs about sweet 16 abound: Johnny Burnette's ","You're Sixteen You're Beautiful," Ronnie Milsap's "Happy Happy Birthday Baby," The Crests' "Sixteen Candles," Neil Sedaka's "Happy Birthday Sweet 16,"  Billy Ray Cyrus' "Always Sixteen," Connie Stevens' " Sixteen Reasons," Britney Spears' "I'm Not A Girl Not A Woman Yet," The Beatles' "Sweet Little Sixteen" and "The Sound of Music's "Sixteen Going On Seventeen."

Watch the videocast and see popular young actress Brittany Altman, (who recently starred as Sandy in the Sheridan Arts Foundation's Young People Theater's production of "Grease") flirt openly as Liesl von Trapp with uber talented acting newbie Spencer Zarr, a young Nazi, as they rehearse in their rendition of "Sixteen Going On Seventeen."

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