NBC live telecast of "The Sound of Music"

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am I the only person here who watched it? carrie underwood was a revelation!

I saw the end if it. (Church choir rehearsal went quite long tonight, since there was no rehearsal last Thursday, and the music director buried his mother this past weekend and is about 3 weeks behind in getting ready for my church's 99th presentation of the 12 lessons and carols, based on the same service that is done each year at King's College--Cambridge) I was not impressed. Give me Mary Martin and Theodor Bikel or Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer anyday.

I saw it. It was okay.

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!

I saw parts of it as my DH is a compulsive channel surfer but I wasn't impressed by the acting and didn't get to hear much of the singing. I really like ice-cream!

it had the typical live tv vibe from the golden age of television. it was like a taste of what tv viewers got to see in the 50s.

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.

so that means the soundtrack to the DVD I can buy [sound of music] is not the soundtrack that was in theatres in 1965? how interesting, I heard a while back the sound of Audrey Hepburn's own singing voice in "my fair lady" [her voice over was by Marni Nixon who incidentally played one of the nuns in "the sound of music"] and I honestly could not hear any fault with it that would explain why the producers chose Marni's voice over her own. btw, I HATE voiceovers!

That would be correct. Nowadays, it really doesn't matter since the golden age of the movie musical has long passed. Don't even get me started on the garbage Disney has put out as musicals (High School Musical, Hannah Montana, etc) or Even the film version of Sondheim's Sweeney Todd (I have yet to see anyone top Angela Lansbury as Mrs. Lovett or Len Cariou as Benjamin Barker/Sweeney Todd.)

Not my style... kinda a bad direction with the reimagining. now if they added a murderous nazi-cult of Thule society wizards summing up Yog-Sothoth and chased the nanny and children to sacrifice them through the Alps...then I'd get into it perhaps.

I like my historical movies accurate without any singing, or at least get it all nerdy up in there.

Does anyone here think Nazi Zombies would not improve this movie?

it just occurred to me that there was a dirty joke in the beginning of the movie- where the butler says to the head maid, "you should've joined the navy, you would've made a fortune!" IOW he was telling her he thought she was a whore.

i watched ten minutes of it. I respect the talent in their doing something I cant but IMHO the original should have been re-aired. That I would have watched more of.

the sound engineering of it left a bit to be desired, there was way too much of [and the wrong kind of ] audio compression, resulting in copious background noise and hiss.

...You mean of the Underwood TSOM , aunt ? (which , incidentally , would have been 100% a repeat of the live performance for us out here on the WC - West Coast , not " water closet " (hello , Jack Parr , wherever you are ! !! !! !! !! !!)


ote="auntblabby"]the sound engineering of it left a bit to be desired, there was way too much of [and the wrong kind of ] audio compression, resulting in copious background noise and hiss.[/quote]

...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 ?



="Meistersinger"]

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.[/quote]

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.