Swastika Bunting: Country Schloss and Music Tsom

swastika bunting: Now it's Rogers & Hammerstein's venerable The Sound of Music TSOM . So, this go-round, tour wrangler Jess Gouker the real star of the show packed BAC's eighteen wheeler full of 1930's Austrian necromancy magical Alps and meadows, a magical gothic nunnery, a magically rococo country Schloss, magical swastika bunting, according to Vancouver Observer. Also along for the ride a lot of magical thinking about how to fend off fascism. Every few months, the boxwallah touring company sends us a semi-trailer packed with musical comedy magic anything from Kinky Boots to Phantom of the Opera. When I first saw TSOM at New York's Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, Ike was still president and Diefenbaker firmly entrenched in 24 Sussex and the cocky Anglophone democracies freshly triumphant over the Nazis were just embarking on a new crusade, this time against godless Communism. But in passing on their legacy to us kids, they and a generation of like-minded Moms & Dads preferred to gloss over the messy details of that era in favour of a tidier, cheerier narrative. Hitler's 1938 Anschluss annexation of Austria was just a couple of decades in the rearview mirror, well within my parents' living memory. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.