Classic WWII musical arrives on Waterloo stage

The hills are alive in Waterloo tonight.

The Seneca Community Players will perform “The Sound of Music,” the classic musical of love and liberty in World War II Europe, at Waterloo High School through this weekend.

The show tells the story of Maria, an aspiring nun who takes up teaching the seven children of Austrian navy captain Georg Ritter von Trapp. As Maria loosens his authoritarian grip on his children, she also falls in love with him. But his engagement to a baroness - as well as the pressure on von Trapp to join the Nazi party in war - threatens his growing affection for Maria.