The long-running Broadway revival of The Sound of Music will be climbing mountains and fording streams all over America starting Aug. 23, when the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical embarks on a 40-week national tour with Richard Chamberlain recreating his Broadway performance as Captain von Trapp. 

Chamberlain, who starred as Henry Higgins in the 1993-94 musical revival of My Fair Lady on Broadway and on tour, will be joined by Meg Tolin as Maria. 

Most famous for his television series "Dr. Kildare," Chamberlain continues his television reign as the king of the mini-series. Having appeared in "Shogun," "Wallenberg," "The Thorn Birds," "The Bourne Identity," "Dream West" and "Centennial," he most recently starred as a flashy, free-spending butler in "Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke." Chamberlain plays a cocaine-sniffing Civil War slave-trader and swindler in the upcoming feature film The Pavilion. 

Now 64, Chamberlain made his Broadway debut in David Merrick's infamous Breakfast at Tiffany's in 1967, a production which he recently called "one of the biggest flops ever to hit New York." 

Chamberlain has also appeared more successfully in New York productions of Blithe Spirit, The Night of the Iguana and Fathers and Sons. 

The Tony-nominated 1998 production of The Sound of Music is Broadway's first revival of The Sound of Music since the original 1959 production. Susan H. Schulman (The Secret Garden, Violet) directed the prodution, which is produced by Hallmark, Steve Baruch, Richard Frankel, Thomas Viertel, Jujamcyn Theaters, Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization, Charles Kelman Productions, Simon Genatt Haft, Marc Routh, Jay Binder and Robert Halmi Jr. 

The Sound of Music was the final musical by Rodgers & Hammerstein, capping a collaboration that produced Oklahoma!, Carousel, The King and I, South Pacific and other musicals. A revival of their Flower Drum Song is currently in the works, with a libretto revised by David Henry Hwang. 

Its score includes "Do Re Mi," "My Favorite Things," 
"You Are Sixteen," "Climb Ev'ry Mountain," "Edelweiss" and the title song. This version interpolates two songs written for the Oscar-winning 1965 film, "Something Good" and "I Have Confidence," both of which have music and lyrics by Richard Rodgers.