Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment has officially announced the five-time Academy Award-winning
The Sound of Music for Blu-ray release on November 2. This 45th Anniversary Edition, "meticulously restored and remastered" with 7.1 DTS-HD Master Audio sound, will be presented in a three-disc (2 BDs, 1 DVD) combo edition, and also in an individually numbered
Limited Collector's Set.
Special features include:
- Audio commentaries with Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer and director Robert Wise
- Your Favorite Things: An Interactive Celebration — all-new immersive viewing experience with behind-the-scenes images, on-screen lyrics, trivia track and location quiz
- Music Machine Sing-Along
- BD-LIVE:
- Live Lookup Powered by IMDb
- Musical Stages: Creating The Sound of Music — all-new interactive "backlot tour" with in-depth featurettes on the songs, the stage show & movie, the film and sound restoration and the real-life von Trapp family
- A City of Song — virtual map of filming locations in Salzburg, Austria
- Vintage Rodgers & Hammerstein and The Sound of Music programs, including a parody with Carol Burnett and Julie Andrews, and an interview with the real Maria von Trapp on The Julie Andrews Hour
- Rodgers & Hammerstein: The Sound of American Music, hosted by Mary Martin
- Screen tests, rare treasures, interviews, photo galleries and more
The Limited Collector's set adds the following:
- 45th Anniversary soundtrack
- 100-Page "My Favorite Things" scrapbook
- Snapshots from Salzburg
- Reproduction of the original 1965 Souvenir program
- Exclusive "My Favorite Things" Music Box with letter of authenticity