Carrie Underwood to Star in NBC's Live Broadcast of THE SOUND OF MUSIC- Page 22

[boggess]

Posted: 12/5/13 at 7:34pm

I found it strange that he kept referring to Carrie as a "tabloid" star. It's not as if they cast Paris Hilton.

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 12/5/13 at 7:36pm

Oh God, not Hathaway. Her acting was damned fine in Les Miserables but if you asked me to listen to her sing….no thanks.

[Tink2]

Posted: 12/5/13 at 7:56pm

Just minutes to go! Excited!!

[rosscoe(au)]

Posted: 12/5/13 at 7:58pm

Glad this is about to air, these threads are getting like the release of the film version of reNt....

[broadwaybabytn]

Posted: 12/5/13 at 8:05pm

I liked the the credits.
They must be separately mic'ed, because Audra was much louder than those other nuns in the foreground.
It feels clearly live, just a tiny bit jittery.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 12/5/13 at 8:42pm

It just withers and DIES when Audra's not onscreen. The show is sickeningly sugary, and poor little Carrie just can't bring it to life, she's got no class or spice at all.

[CurtainsUpat8]

Posted: 12/5/13 at 10:28pm

This is awful. I have seen shows on Broadway that were FAR superior to this ripped to shreds here. There are a couple of really good performances... Laura Benanti is wonderful and the girl playing Liesle is very good. Audra has a great voice but she is too young. I would have rather seen Rebecca Luker or Victoria Clark. The rest of the cast is AWFUL. The direction is AWFUL. The choreography is AWFUL. The sound is AWFUL It was an awful idea to even do it.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 12/5/13 at 10:43pm

Boy, that Carrie Underwood. She's like a talented high schooler who's a one and a half threat who everybody tells is going to be a big star. And because she won The Great American Shortcut to Fame, she flails before us as Maria Von Trapp. This job is just beyond her, but bless her heart for pushing through this.

Love Audra more than ever.

Posted: 12/5/13 at 10:47pm

[finebydesign]

Posted: 12/5/13 at 11:06pm

This thread alone has nearly 1/2 a million views!!! NBC NAILED IT!

[marknyc]

Posted: 12/5/13 at 11:08pm

Have to agree with CurtainsUpat8 - this is community theater with a big budget. Underwood simply can't act - cmon, you all must see that. And even the pros have been over-directed. Everyone is way too "on". And the children are like the kids with Barney the dinosaur. A disaster.

And I really, really, wanted this to be good - I literally ran home to see it!

[NYadgal]

Posted: 12/5/13 at 11:11pm

Whatever you thought, a major television network just gave 3 hours of prime programming to musical theatre. And it wasn't a Sunday in June.

That's a win in my book!

[Liza's Headband]

Posted: 12/5/13 at 11:13pm

^ This, This, This.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 12/5/13 at 11:16pm

I was thrilled to watch it and devoured the glimmers of greatness and appreciate Vampire Bill and the Maria for trying real hard even though they couldn't cut it. But Audra doing all that singing live on my TV!

[Master Bates]

Posted: 12/5/13 at 11:22pm

Are you paid by exclamation point, Donna?

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 12/5/13 at 11:28pm

Whatever you thought, a major television network just gave 3 hours of prime programming to musical theatre. And it wasn't a Sunday in June.

This times a million.


I also love the people on Twitter saying they don't understand why they would "bastardize" a classic by "adding new songs."

It was exactly what I anticipated. Carrie can't act, Audra and the other Broadway vets killed it, the sets were lovely, Stephen Moyer's singing was...hit or miss, and it was perfectly respectable if not necessary or exciting in any way. Except "Climb Ev'ry Mountain." I also loved the transitions between scenes/sets, like when Maria leaves the house to go back to the Abbey or when the set changed from the house to the concert hall. Thought those were surprisingly smooth and theatrical without being jarring. I'd give it a B-, I guess. It'd be exciting if they aired more live musical productions like this, maybe every Holiday season or something.
Updated On: 12/5/13 at 11:28 PM

[finebydesign]

Posted: 12/5/13 at 11:31pm

It's awesome! I actually hear my neighbors cheering like it was the World Cup! So happy. This was the biggest little win for theatre in DECADES!

#SOML #frozen

incredible week for musical theatre outside of bway

[finebydesign]

Posted: 12/5/13 at 11:45pm

Posted to other thread- Twitter trends right now:

[marknyc]

Posted: 12/5/13 at 11:50pm

Yes, we all want more Broadway on TV - but how about good productions?

[Liza's Headband]

Posted: 12/5/13 at 11:51pm

You do not need to repeat your post on both threads.... We get it.

[RW3]

Posted: 12/6/13 at 12:08am

For some reason I'm getting really defensive of the production on Twitter. Is this normal?

[Liza's Headband]

Posted: 12/6/13 at 12:11am

Just tweet this (lifted from a friend on my Newsfeed):

Here's the deal. Musical Theatre "guru"'s with negative opinions are coming at it from a bitter, jaded view and need to take a step back and realize that the random little boy in North Dakota glued to his TV has no clue what belting/mixing/legit means but knew who Carrie Underwood was so tuned in. And now. He might know Audra McDonald. And now he might want to see more musicals. And now he might want to do a musical. And so on and so forth. So everyone needs to grab a glass of wine and take a chill pill.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 12/6/13 at 12:30am

Here's the other deal: People who try to regulate "negative opinions" from being posted on social media (or BWW) are doomed to fail.

You can't regulate opinions.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 12/6/13 at 12:47am

I'm impressed that the set walls don't shake. When you watch sitcoms (Katie & Allie) you can't see the walls shake when people touch them.

I wanted to love this, but I thought it was kinda dreadful. NBC did nail it, though. They are wise to measure their success in BWW page views.

Audra was sublime, and Laura Benanti was just marvelous. Vampire Bill had pretty much the voice I'd expect he'd have,. Unlike Carrie, I believed he was an actual human being.

I hope that boy in Nebraska got what he needed. Before this aired, no little kids anywhere in the flyovers ever had a chance of discovering anything. Back when they had record players, maybe, so like before 1985, but the world has become so inaccessible since we got the internet.

Updated On: 12/6/13 at 12:47 AM

[Huey's Pop]

Posted: 12/6/13 at 12:50am

Yes, the guy stepped on the dress in the west coast feed.