Carrie Underwood to Star in NBC's Live Broadcast of THE SOUND OF MUSIC — Page 6

Here's what Carrie had to say about the upcoming broadcast:

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"It's a giant challenge, which I appreciate," this week's PEOPLE cover girl, who is currently in the midst of her Blown Away tour, says of the new production, which is slated to air later this year around the holidays. "Everybody keeps saying, 'People don't do this anymore, singing live!' "

As for following Julie Andrews, who earned an Oscar nomination for her role in the box-office blockbuster 1965 original, the country superstar, 30, says she's not trying to fill the Hollywood legend's shoes.

The British star "just has this royal air," says Underwood, who has never met Andrews: "It would be like you're beneath her!"

Underwood adds, "I think once people tune in and realize that [our version] is not a remake, they won't compare it to the movie.

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Carrie Underwood: Live Sound of Music Won't Be a Remake

They could go ahead and cast a broadway star....wait nobody would watch it.

>> I think once people tune in and realize that [our version] is not a remake, they won't compare it to the movie.


Be afraid.

Be very afraid....

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I think Carrie is pretty, but not sure I would call her beautiful. Her stylist does a wonderful job on making her look great. She is awkward on stage, IMO. She has never been able to overcome that since her Idol days. My niece went to one of her concerts last year and said she pretty much screamed thru the whole thing. She said she had to take an Excedrin - not sure if she is still a fan lol.

Just tried to listen to the video Robbie posted [I've never heard of Carrie Underwood but of couse curious and interested].I don't know much about the writing of music but isn't that song for a soprano?--how much was that song lowered to fit her voice? That song is supposed to soar over the mountains-hers couldn't make it to the top of a small hill.

Well, you know, it's a year off, so maybe (in the spirit of good family entertainment values, y'know), we should provide NBC with our own take on how they can take this country singing sensation and make it all work in THE SOUND OF MUSIC. I mean, sure, it'll mean making a few changes here and there, but heck, the Met does this all the time and no one cares (well, too much).

So... THUH SOUYND UH MEWYSIC (as adapted from some play by a couple of Yankees who should git down on their knees and thank God for this great land)

ACT ONE. Scene 1: The Abby Trailer Park, high in the hills of West Virginia. The local Baptist ladies are all working away on their upcoming bake sell and truck raffle, but no one can find Mary (who makes the best corn muffins in the county). Frustrated, they commiserate over a Long Island Iced Tea or two and sing "Whut do yew do with a prohblem liyke Mary?"

Scene 2: Up in the hills, Mary picks her way past a few not so well hidden stills as she sings "Thuh HIYLLLLLS 'R' UH-LIVE with the sound of Banjos!"

Scene 3: Mary returns home, only to find she's been summoned before Abby Superior, the trailer park's matriarch. Abby tells her that she's lined up a real sweet job babysitting for the local circuit court appeals judge (who's up for re-election). Mary, being of course a welfare case, balks at the idea because it means her government subsistence check will be taken away, but then she sees a picture of the judge and decides that she needs to get in there, pull herself up by her bra straps, and help make America great once more, which leads into the passionately patriotic number (backed up by an offstage chorus of Marines) "Eagles all weepy and grunts at attention / Stars and stripes on everything too numerous to mention / Trusting in Reagan and all that he sings / These are a few of my favourite things!"

I'm tellin' ya, we got a gold mine here!!!

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"I don't know much about the writing of music but isn't that song for a soprano?--how much was that song lowered to fit her voice? That song is supposed to soar over the mountains-hers couldn't make it to the top of a small hill."

Guess what? Mary Martin wasn't a soprano and from what I've heard she did okay by the role.

Didn't they consider Taylor Swift for Les Miserables? It's all about putting popular faces out there. What bugs me is, when I go see a movie musical, I'd actually like to see somebody in the lead role who can sing and act. They seem to think if it's a well-known actor, we're all so stupid we will accept a bad singer. That has been done over and over.

I'd like Carrie a lot more if she would just stop yelling. Sing the song already. She doesn't need to scream it. She has a sound team who will make sure she is heard. And she is very wooden. And she marches across the stage. She just isn't graceful or a natural on a stage. Sometimes a singer who is a great performer will go further than a person with a better voice who can't perform.

Yep, Carrie may edge out Pickler in voice (minus the screaming), but Pickler is def the better performer.

So many people hating on her just because she's not "Broadway", therefore she has no right to do this and she's going to be awful, even though she's a gorgeous woman with a gorgeous voice.

She's going to be wonderful and the telecast will be seen by millions of people and will hopefully lead to more broadcasts of more musicals that everyone can bitch and moan about without having seen them yet.

Uh huh

Carrie also recently said that she'd start vocal training and script memorization in June because "The Sound of Music isn't country." She's said several times that as soon as her tour ends in May the rest of her year will be spent almost solely on TSOM.

BTW she had the flu in the live Sound of Music video that's on youtube. You can tell her voice is hoarse in some parts.

I'm not worried about the singing at all. I do think she's really going to have to work on the acting though.