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did you watch NBC's live "Sound of Music"?
yes, i watched it and enjoyed it! 27%  27%  [ 4 ]
yes i watched it but MEH. 13%  13%  [ 2 ]
nope but i wished i had heard about it in time to watch! 13%  13%  [ 2 ]
nope and i don't care about that sort of entertainment. 33%  33%  [ 5 ]
i really like ice cream! :D 13%  13%  [ 2 ]
Total votes : 15

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12 Dec 2013, 2:36 pm

...What anti-Obama rant was that , Magic ?????????




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I only watched a little of it. I'm still P.O'd at Carrie for the Anti-Obama rant. Her voice was good, but her acting was a little wooden from what I saw.



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12 Dec 2013, 2:57 pm

It was actually more of a skit with Brad Paisley at the CMA's. It's not really a full blown rant, just a cheap shot, possibly more Paisley's fault than anything. Google Carrie Underwood and Anti-Obama
and the YouTube video will come up. Perhaps I was over reacting and being over sensitive.



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12 Dec 2013, 2:58 pm

...Okay . Thank you ! !!




quote="MagicToenail"]It was actually more of a skit with Brad Paisley at the CMA's. It's not really a full blown rant, just a cheap shot, possibly more Paisley's fault than anything. Google Carrie Underwood and Anti-Obama
and the YouTube video will come up. Perhaps I was over reacting and being over sensitive.[/quote]



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12 Dec 2013, 3:19 pm

...The inclusion of the not-in-the-Andrews-movie songs " No Way To Stop It " and (especially) " How Can Love Survive? " (plus , I think one?? extra song for the nuns) was a major point of interest in the TV version for me !



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17 Dec 2013, 2:03 am

ASS-P wrote:
...Again , Meis...UR saying that later-years re-recordings by Plummer are what is heard now when you see a copy of the Wise film (which still gets quite a few " Sing-Along " screenings now , remember , anything else aside) , theatrically or on home video , or play an new audio CD or download of the soundtrack LP ?



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I have this old-fashioned thing where I see that the players involved put themselves out there and did the best they could and I am reluctant to do anything other than at least applaud. they have more talent than I do, in any case. and btw, Christopher plummer did NOT do his own singing in the movie, that was voiced over by bill lee. these [live performance] people tonight did all their own singing!


While it is true the Bill Lee did initially ghost voiced for Christopher Plummer, Mr. Plummer did eventually learn to sing and re-recorded the songs into the movie soundtrack some years later.
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That is correct. Unless you have the original vinyl soundtrack record released in 1965, the later version have Mr. Plummer using his own voice. Again, leave it to Hollyweird and the media conglomerates to do such things.



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17 Dec 2013, 4:23 pm

...You are old enough , Meis , that I suppose you could have seen the , if not the original Martin-Bikel cast , at least a production of the show in the years before the movie came along in '65 and made people expect that version , I'd think , of the show . Did you ?????



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ASS-P wrote:
...Again , Meis...UR saying that later-years re-recordings by Plummer are what is heard now when you see a copy of the Wise film (which still gets quite a few " Sing-Along " screenings now , remember , anything else aside) , theatrically or on home video , or play an new audio CD or download of the soundtrack LP ?



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I have this old-fashioned thing where I see that the players involved put themselves out there and did the best they could and I am reluctant to do anything other than at least applaud. they have more talent than I do, in any case. and btw, Christopher plummer did NOT do his own singing in the movie, that was voiced over by bill lee. these [live performance] people tonight did all their own singing!


While it is true the Bill Lee did initially ghost voiced for Christopher Plummer, Mr. Plummer did eventually learn to sing and re-recorded the songs into the movie soundtrack some years later.


That is correct. Unless you have the original vinyl soundtrack record released in 1965, the later version have Mr. Plummer using his own voice. Again, leave it to Hollyweird and the media conglomerates to do such things.[/quote]



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17 Dec 2013, 10:52 pm

ASS-P wrote:
...You are old enough , Meis , that I suppose you could have seen the , if not the original Martin-Bikel cast , at least a production of the show in the years before the movie came along in '65 and made people expect that version , I'd think , of the show . Did you ?????



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ASS-P wrote:
...Again , Meis...UR saying that later-years re-recordings by Plummer are what is heard now when you see a copy of the Wise film (which still gets quite a few " Sing-Along " screenings now , remember , anything else aside) , theatrically or on home video , or play an new audio CD or download of the soundtrack LP ?



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I have this old-fashioned thing where I see that the players involved put themselves out there and did the best they could and I am reluctant to do anything other than at least applaud. they have more talent than I do, in any case. and btw, Christopher plummer did NOT do his own singing in the movie, that was voiced over by bill lee. these [live performance] people tonight did all their own singing!


While it is true the Bill Lee did initially ghost voiced for Christopher Plummer, Mr. Plummer did eventually learn to sing and re-recorded the songs into the movie soundtrack some years later.


That is correct. Unless you have the original vinyl soundtrack record released in 1965, the later version have Mr. Plummer using his own voice. Again, leave it to Hollyweird and the media conglomerates to do such things.
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Sorry, I never saw the origial Broadway production. I was three years old when The Sound of Music first appeared on the stage. I didn't see a stage production until I was in high school, when my high school mounted a production of it in 1974.



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17 Dec 2013, 10:54 pm

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I didn't see a stage production until I was in high school, when my high school mounted a production of it in 1974.

wow, that was pretty advanced for high school, must've been a fine school you got to attend.



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17 Dec 2013, 11:16 pm

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Meistersinger wrote:
I didn't see a stage production until I was in high school, when my high school mounted a production of it in 1974.

wow, that was pretty advanced for high school, must've been a fine school you got to attend.


Actually, a lot of the high schools here in York County have been mounting broadway musicals for years. Just don't get too adventurous with what's being put on the stage. (It's OK to mount anything by Rodgers and Hammerstein, Lerner and Loewe, Rodgers and Hart, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Julie Styne, and Jerry Herman (with the exception of La cage aux folles). West Side Story is pushing it (don't ask me why). Kurt Weill, and Sondheim are totally out of the question.

I also wouldn't call Red Lion, PA a fine school district. When I was in high school, the attitude was that if you didn't live within the Red Lion borough limits, you weren't worth jacks***. Also, if you didn't wear a jockstrap at all times, you were a nobody.

If you remember, Red Lion had a major shooting here 10 years ago at the Junior High, where several kids were shot, and the principal was killed. People around here still refuse to talk about it. Quite frankly, I'm surprised that something like this didn't happen almost 40 years ago, when I was in school.



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17 Dec 2013, 11:23 pm

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Actually, a lot of the high schools here in York County have been mounting broadway musicals for years. Just don't get too adventurous with what's being put on the stage. (It's OK to mount anything by Rodgers and Hammerstein, Lerner and Loewe, Rodgers and Hart, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Julie Styne, and Jerry Herman (with the exception of La cage aux folles). West Side Story is pushing it (don't ask me why). Kurt Weill, and Sondheim are totally out of the question.

compared with my high school which never did anything fancier than "once upon a mattress."