‘Sound of Music’s’ Keslie Ward: She is 24, going on 17

Keslie Ward and Chad Campbell play teenage Liesl von Trapp and her boyfriend, Rolf Gruber. The two are shown performing "Sixteen Going on Seventeen." Keslie Ward and Chad Campbell play teenage Liesl von Trapp and her boyfriend, Rolf Gruber. The two are shown performing "Sixteen Going on Seventeen."

By Susan Pierce October 22, 2017 3 min read

If you go

* What: “The Sound of Music.”* When: 8 p.m. Friday; 1 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday.* Where: Tivoli Theatre, 709 Broad St* Admission: $77, $67, $52 and $37 plus fees.

“The Sound of Music” was the first movie soundtrack Keslie Ward owned as a kid growing up in Texas.

“The music was so beautiful. I loved Julie Andrews. ‘The Sound of Music’ introduced me to the world of musicals,” says Ward in a phone interview.

Now she’s part of that world.

Ward, 24, stars as Liesl von Trapp, eldest of the von Trapp children in the national touring company of “The Sound of Music.”