8 August 2011 - Michael is back onstage as the Captain opposite Verity Rushworth as Maria in 'The Sound of Music' at the Theatre Royal in Norwich. Michael is filling in for Jason Donovan from August 9th to the 20th.
Maria, a vivacious novice in Salzburg's Nonnberg Abbey, isn't fitting into somber convent life. To give her an opportunity to get away from the abbey to reconsider her future, the Mother Abbess sends her to the aristocratic household of Captain Georg Von Trapp, a widower with seven children. Maria is to be the governess to his emotionally neglected children. As Maria reconciles her growing love for the children's father with her desire to become a nun, the looming Nazi menace in nearby Germany threatens to overwhelm them all.