Live Blog The Live Sound Of Music — Page 23

"Uh, no. You are negative. Being sick of the negativity spewing from you is definitely not bad at all."

Okay, Jane. Okay. I'm sorry my negativity has spoiled your golden aura of positivity you spread throughout the boards.

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They actually don't have that reputation among normal people. It's just something "theater people" say that we confronted with opinions that go against their own.

A stereotype that IS true of theatre people is that they have a weakness for when people pay attention to them.

Hence the articles on this site every time someone famous mentions Broadway in passing.

Or the pontificating blog posts about the such world shaking issues like the merits or demerits of The Sound of Music Live.



I will agree that Underwood was let down by direction (and costume design).

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Updated On: 12/7/13 at 07:19 PM

She had an acting coach for an entire year. Some people just aren't good actors, regardless of training. I admire her for signing on to the project and doing her best, though.

I had just just as many negative Carrie comments come across my feed from my non-theater friends....in fact, I thought they were more harsh than my theatre friends who were more likely to also mention the positive.

Even my classes (theater & non-theatre courses) had the first comment of Carrie's inability to act.

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Clearly, all those people need to find Jesus.

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Can a person who can put across a song not act? My first thought was no, a person who can put across a song can act. Then I thought of Madonna.

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For people saying that it's just bitchy theatre people saying this stuff: I live in "middle America." I have a lot of friends in "middle America." The ones who watched SoM, even the ones who aren't really into theatre, found Carrie Underwood's acting bad.

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Updated On: 12/7/13 at 09:17 PM

I suppose it's a matter of whether or not you think that her bad acting hobbled the whole thing, or not. Some are more willing to give it more of a pass than others.

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And SNL is spoofing it right now.

I wonder what the salaries for everyone involved were!

There's not really anything in that article that hasn't been said here -- and most don't disagree. Is it her FAULT she cannot act? Not really, I have no doubt she tried, and gave it her all. It's just hard to discuss the show and not talk about the elephant in the room.

That people would send her hate tweets, is simply showing the state of Americans. To have a negative opinion is one thing, to go out of one's way to make you hurt someone with that opinion is another story.

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I don't think Carrie's acting was bad so much as nonexistent. It's like saying someone is a bad driver when they never got the car out of "park."

She was sincere and focused and attentive and said her lines. That's not acting, but it's not bad acting either. She didn't make any false choices, in my opinion, and she didn't force any false emotions. Now the Captain Vampire did that, absolutely. He overacted and his choices rang false. That's bad acting to me.

Carrie has potential. She was in way over her head, but she didn't drown. She didn't swim either. She just stayed afloat and "survived."

I hope she takes the gifts she has and studies. She has the talent, the drive, the discipline, the concentration, and the dedication to become a good actress ... if she wants to do it. I wish her the best.

And if you want to see someone who started out FAR worse than Carrie Underwood, check out Jessica Lange's horrendous first performance in the remake of King Kong. It's one of the single, most awful acting jobs I have ever seen on film. She should never have had a career after that. Yes, it's that bad.

And we all know how that turned out.

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