* Yakima native Rachel Kunze is the latest to play Maria, the singing, skirt-twirling nun in the Leavenworth Summer Theater's production of "The Sound of Music."

This is the Leavenworth Summer Theatre's 14th consecutive season of performing "The Sound of Music," and the company expects to welcome its 100,000th guest to the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic sometime this summer.

Many will remember Kunze from her stunning portrayal of Catherine in the Warehouse Theatre Company's 2005 production of David Auburn's Pulitzer- and Tony-winning play "Proof." Kunze's performance earned her a Warehouse Winnie Award for Best Actress of the 2005-06 season.

"Sound of Music" performances continue through Aug. 31 at the Leavenworth Ski Hill Amphitheater. For more information, call 548-2000 or visit www.leavenworthsummertheater.org.

* Erin Ecklund, a 2002 West Valley High School graduate, recently made her big-screen debut as Sophie in "The Unidentified," an independent film that had its world premiere the end of May at the Brooklyn International Film Festival. The film's director, Kevan Tucker, won Best New Director at the festival.

Active in drama through school and the Warehouse Theatre Company (she was Peter Pan in 2002 at the WTC), Ecklund graduated in 2006 from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts with a degree in drama from The Experimental Theatre Wing.

"It'd be nice to be recognized as a character in a good story," a then-18-year-old Ecklund said during a 2002 interview with the Yakima Herald-Republic. "Ten years from now, I'd like to be on Broadway, or in movies and things."

To see the trailer for "The Unidentified," visit On's blog at on.yakimablogs.com.

* On the Record is a compilation of arts and entertainment news and happenings around Central Washington. To get your news On the Record, call Kim Nowacki at 509-577-7680 or send e-mail to on@yakimaherald.com.