The challenge, Trapp said, is the same one that all forecasters face: A forecast depends on the data available.

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Andrew Benerofe got a kick out of meeting the real Maria von Trapp at a cast party at Tavern On The Green.

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These warnings for tornadoes could come one to six hours before the tornado, as opposed to the current 15- to 30-minute warnings, Trapp said.

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Every so often - such as the Von Trapp family failing to make an appearance, followed by a Nazi officer running in and saying, "they're gone!"

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Known as "warn-on-forecasts, " the new methodology would issue warnings based on forecasts rather than observations, said Jeff Trapp, a professor of atmospheric science at Purdue University in Indiana.

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For three days, nearly 2, 000 acres of upland common and peat bog has been burning in a "catastrophic fire" in the Brecon Beacons between Trapp, Brynamman and Llandeilo.

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Thousands still flock to see the Salzburg sites, including the Mirabell Gardens (where Maria and the von Trapp children sang "Do-Re-Mi") and Mondsee Cathedral (where Maria married Baron von Trapp), each year.

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Less palatial than the house in the movie, Villa Trapp was the real home of the von Trapp family, tucked away in a private park two miles east of the Old Town.

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They look like the Von Trapp Family Singers.

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Then she learned that the Texas congressman's favorite movie is "The Sound of Music, " the stylized saga of the Austrian von Trapp Family Singers, who eventually settled in the Super Tuesday primary state of Vermont.

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But when I awoke, to see the puppet von Trapp children gathered on puppet Maria's puppet bed, I thought back to what the theatre's managing director had said, backstage, in amongst the delicately carved and painted marionettes.

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Johannes von Trapp, the youngest child of Baron Georg von Trapp and Maria Kutschera, is an honorary chair of the gala, while Daniel Truhitte, who played Rolfe, the suitor of Liesl, a von Trapp daughter in the film, will appear in the concert as Baron Elberfeld, a guest at a party given by the baron.

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