Carrie Underwood to Star in NBC's Live Broadcast of THE SOUND OF MUSIC- Page 12

[MCfan2]

Posted: 11/8/13 at 11:06am

It does look and sound better than I was expecting!

[disneybroadwayfan22]

Posted: 11/8/13 at 11:22am

Not bad at all :)

Updated On: 11/8/13 at 11:22 AM

[ucjrdude902]

Posted: 11/8/13 at 12:13pm

I wonder if this is a huge success if it'll rekindle the former SOM revival talks?

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 11/8/13 at 12:39pm

I can't wait for this to air. Her voice sounds so beautiful! I hope it's a ratings winner and they consider doing other musicals for television.

[beautywickedlover]

Posted: 11/15/13 at 11:26am

Julie Andrews once again has some very nice things to say about Carrie.


'The Sound of Music': Carrie Underwood wished well by Julie Andrews

[bobs3]

Posted: 11/15/13 at 1:05pm

Angela Lansbury could use some of Julie Andrews' class.

[jimmycurry01]

Posted: 11/15/13 at 1:16pm

Lansbury had wonderful things to say about Octavia Spencer. It was calling the show Murder She Wrote that she has a problem about. She sees it as the network trying to cash in on the name and she believes that the show will lose a lot of the charm and appeal of its namesake, and that it will just not be the same. She is probably correct. If the show has few similarities, other than the name, why not call it something else? That is the angle Lansbury is coming from.

[madbrian]

Posted: 11/15/13 at 3:21pm

"If the show has few similarities, other than the name, why not call it something else?"

In that case, folks would accuse them of ripping off Murder She Wrote. Better to own it.

[jv92]

Posted: 11/15/13 at 3:29pm

Honestly, I don't think anyone other than Jennifer Holiday or Arthur Laurents would trash a mildly "controversial" production of something they helped create or took part in. This isn't surprising. I couldn't see Julie telling Underwood to "go f*ck herself."

And I'm still not impressed with her singing of the two bars of the title number on the commercial. Let's wait and see...

[South Fl Marc]

Posted: 11/15/13 at 5:33pm

"Angela Lansbury could use some of Julie Andrews' class."

What an ignorant and truly stupid statement to make.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 11/15/13 at 6:12pm

I haven't read all of the posts in this thread, and this may just be an altogether stupid question, but they are going to be performing the songs live as well, correct? Or will they be lipsynching to these pre-recorded tracks?

[Liza's Headband]

Posted: 11/15/13 at 6:17pm

It's all completely live, Wicked.

[Wilmingtom]

Posted: 11/15/13 at 6:18pm

^ All live.

[Wilmingtom]

Posted: 11/15/13 at 6:18pm

^ All live.

[ljay889]

Posted: 11/15/13 at 6:58pm

http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/11/15/sound-of-music-live-carrie-underwood-audra-mcdonald-my-favorite-things/

I actually think she sounds pretty great.

[N2N Nate.]

Posted: 11/15/13 at 7:10pm

Yeah, Carrie sounds fantastic. No one should be surprised.

[HorseTears]

Posted: 11/15/13 at 7:37pm

Got to admit, Carrie's 'My Favorite Things' sounds a lot stronger than I anticipated. A bit too contemporary, perhaps, but who knows if this is even the final mix for the CD or just a teaser they'll discard.

I hate to be one of those people, but I'm not reading through 12 pages of this thread to see if this has been discussed already. I'm all for color-blind casting when it works. In fact, I wish there was more of it. As wonderful as Audra is, how does one explain a mother superior in Nazi occupied Austria who happens to be of African descent? Is it even possible for one to have existed? Visually speaking, a Rebecca Luker seems a better suited. Ah, well, I'm sure Audra will be lovely.

[degrassifan]

Posted: 11/15/13 at 8:03pm

"You'll be playing Mother Abbess in NBC's live production of "The Sound of Music" on Dec. 5 opposite Carrie Underwood as Maria. Is that a role you've always wanted to play?"

"I grew up with it; but it's certainly never a role I thought I'd be in! For obvious reasons. I have to credit Neil [Meron] for thinking outside of the box and inviting me to be part of it. Most people only know the movie version, so they think of Mother Abbess as this 70-year-old woman; but in the staged version, the first woman to ever play her was 43 years old. And that's right where I am.

I also have ideas about where she's come from and what her life has been, what in her past life led her to put on the habit and take on this lifestyle. I feel like when she guides Maria and pushes her toward living a life outside the convent, I think she does it with some sort of knowledge about what lies beyond the convent walls. She did it, she knows it and she chose the convent walls — that makes her more interesting to me."

I think having the Mother Abbess be of African descent makes "Climb Every Mountain" an even more stronger song. She REALLY knows what it takes to climb some mountains to achieve an impossible dream for a woman of her status and background in 1930s Austria.

[kade.ivy]

Posted: 11/15/13 at 10:21pm

Ok, industry insiders. If this TV special is successful, do they want to do a revival with Carrie?

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 11/16/13 at 12:19am

Broadway couldn't afford Carrie-she's at the top of her game. She sells out arenas. She'd be crazy to do Broadway at this point.

[bobs3]

Posted: 11/16/13 at 1:57am

^^So true. She is actually losing money (not that she can't afford to) by spending the past three or four months preparing for this broadcast. I'm sure she will be exhausted after the broadcast airs and will take the rest of the year off before embarking on a new album or tour.

[MollyL]

Posted: 11/16/13 at 6:21am

People with that kind of money could do it for the experience, and I imagine many performers (especially those who take roles in SOM) would love the experience. It doesn't have to be for a year, or anything.

[ucjrdude902]

Posted: 11/16/13 at 9:26am

I don't know much but I can tell you that Carrie's calendar last I heard was empty all of 2014 for a reason. However, there are still small whispers of a SOM revival, with or without Carrie.

Updated On: 11/16/13 at 09:26 AM

[jsg03jd]

Posted: 11/16/13 at 9:57am

Still unimpressed with every snippet of Carrie Underwood's Maria that's been released so far. She's much more suited to something like ANNIE GET YOUR GUN rather than THE SOUND OF MUSIC.

So this version is supposed to be an update of Mary Martin's Maria. In the 1998 revival, Rebecca Luker sang I HAVE CONFIDENCE and SOMETHING GOOD but it looks like I HAVE CONFIDENCE didn't make it to the Underwood version, which, like the 1998 revival, uses SOMETHING GOOD in place of AN ORDINARY COUPLE. I wonder why CONFIDENCE was cut...

Updated On: 11/16/13 at 09:57 AM

[jv92]

Posted: 11/16/13 at 10:37am

She's so loud and pushes so much in that snippet. I agree, she'd be better off doing ANNIE GET YOUR GUN or something a little "belt-ier."