Editing The Sound of Music (section)

=== Original casts ===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! rowspan=2 style="width:10%;" | Character
! style="width:10%;" | Broadway
! style="width:10%;" | West End
! style="width:10%;" | West End revival
! style="width:10%;" | Broadway revival
! style="width:10%;" | West End revival
|-
! <small>1959</small>
! <small>1961</small>
! <small>1981</small>
! <small>1998</small>
! <small>2006</small>
|-
! Maria Rainer
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Mary Martin]]
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Jean Bayless]]
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Petula Clark]]
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Rebecca Luker]]
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Connie Fisher]]
|-
! Captain Georg von Trapp
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Theodore Bikel]]
| style="text-align:center;" | Roger Dann
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Michael Jayston]]
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Michael Siberry]]
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Alexander Hanson (actor)|Alexander Hanson]]
|-
! The Mother Abbess
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Patricia Neway]]
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Constance Shacklock]]
| style="text-align:center;" | [[June Bronhill]]
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Patti Cohenour]]
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Lesley Garrett]]
|-
! Baroness Elsa Schraeder
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Marion Marlowe]]
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Eunice Gayson]]
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Honor Blackman]]
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Jan Maxwell]]
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Lauren Ward]]
|-
! Max Detweiler
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Kurt Kasznar]]
| style="text-align:center;" | Harold Kasket
| style="text-align:center;" | [[John Bennett (actor)|John Bennett]]
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Fred Applegate (actor)|Fred Applegate]]
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Ian Gelder]]
|-
! Liesl von Trapp
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Lauri Peters]]
| style="text-align:center;" | Barbara Brown
| style="text-align:center;" | Claire Parker
| style="text-align:center;" | Sara Zelle
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Sophie Bould]]
|-
! Rolf Gruber
| style="text-align:center;" | Brian Davies
| style="text-align:center;" | Nicholas Bennett
| style="text-align:center;" | Paul Shearstone
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Dashiell Eaves]]
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Neil McDermott]]
|}