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The Sound of Music Live!

The Sound of Music Live! (2013)

December. 05,2013
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5.9
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NR
| Drama Music Family TV Movie

The Sound of Music Live! is a television special that was originally broadcast by NBC on December 5, 2013. Produced by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, the special was an adaptation of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway musical The Sound of Music, starring country singer Carrie Underwood as Maria von Trapp, performed and televised live from Grumman Studios in Bethpage, New York. Meron felt that if the telecast were successful, the concept could become "another kind of entertainment that can exist on TV." By her request, Underwood's casting as Maria was personally endorsed by Julie Andrews, who starred in the 1965 film.

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ShangLuda
2013/12/05

Admirable film.

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Beystiman
2013/12/06

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

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Usamah Harvey
2013/12/07

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

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Zlatica
2013/12/08

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

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Stephan Quinland
2013/12/09

Maria captured my attention the moment she arrives in the atrium and holds it for the entire movie. She was perfect on the first dance with the Captain, she was rightly guarded after hearing the Captain was falling for her (and she for him), and she was sublime when she tells the Captain "your decision is my decision" regarding escape from Nazis. She would have to be some professional stage actress from UK with a slight Bristish account, and what a pleasant surprise, Carrie Underwood ! All the mean-spirit critics who gave less than scintillating respone to Underwood, have we watched the same movie? Now the rest of the movie was not perfect. The scene of Listl and Rauf I remember took place under moon light in a green house, floated softly like a dream scape in the original movie. In this movie they used the same mountain background, no green house. What a disappointment! The Captain needed more girth. When he first appears I thought he was the butler. Rauf, the budding nazi boy should have short blond hair but in this version he has greased black hair. The children however were flawless, each one has own personality. The other high point of the movie in the Abby where the Rev mother councils Maria to go find her life could have been more astounding. The song "Climb Every Mountain" wasn't sung as well as it should have been.Overall this is great family entertainment for a Christmas weekend and guys Carrie Underwood was great!

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Li Cheng Jia
2013/12/10

I'm surprised to see some posts said that it's a live show so it's OK if the performance is not very good. Do you say the same when you go to a Broadway show? I'm not an American and I've never heard of Ms. Underwood or any other actors of the show before, so it's not that I have a prejudice against her or something. But I'm sorry that I must say: poor acting, not very good singing, for Maria and Captain. I couldn't help changing the channel. Even not comparing to the film 1965, the performance is far from good. Maria's voice is OK. She might be a good pop singer, but not good enough to be a Broadway singer. If I were her, I will NEVER take a role Julie Andrews once played. As for the Captain, his voice is not bad, but not good enough to cover his poor acting skill. Seeing him not to know where to put his hands really bothered me. Don't people have to take some acting classes before they act?If you want to do a live show, why not cast it from the Broadway? Is that because they just want some famous people to attract the audience without concerning the quality of the show?

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John Lind
2013/12/11

This should NEVER have been done! It's nowhere near the original stage musical and same applies to the original film either. Some of the acting/singing is overdone and with others it's stiff and wooden. Doing it live was admirable, but it introduced issues with having lines rushed to get to commercial breaks which are notoriously ruthless in their timing, the result being pacing disruption and less than desirable acting performances adjusting timing. Just as bad is the casting which was UN-BE-LIEVABLE. You want me to swallow that in mid-1930's Austria, in midst of it being taken over by Nazis from Germany via an assassination of their Prime Minister, an influx of German SA Brownshirt thugs (SA = Sturmabteilung), plus a society with a significant number of anti-semitic and racially bigoted people, that there would be a black mother superior in a convent there? And you would want me to believe the captain would have an Hispanic child, in what was very much then and is still pretty much an ethnically and culturally monolithic country? GET REAL! Worst yet, it downplays what the Nazis actually did to Austria, from within and without, in the Anschluss. In the effort to make beautiful music, which it does not do very well, it loses the entire underlying theme that was captured by the stage and film musicals . . . one courageous man's . . . an Austrian Navy Captain of wealth, and his family's stand against the Anschluss, and their willingness to give up everything rather than be a part of it.This abysmal TV "remake" wasn't Live! it was DEAD! ON ARRIVAL! When will the cable and broadcast TV networks ever learn NOT to attempt remakes of audience revered and critically acclaimed films? Inevitably they're an Epic FAIL and this one was no different. Why must they plagiarize something already done, and worse yet, something that was done exceptionally well? Can they NOT come up with something creatively original? Is their IQ that low? Do they have that much arrogance, disdain and disrespect for TV viewing audiences to think our IQ that low -- that we're brain dead and will accept drivel?

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timalantoo
2013/12/12

Unfortunately, only a few of us were around and can remember live musical performances on TV. I was lucky enough to see the Sound of Music live on Broadway. I find this TV version to be fresh, seamless and with a breath of realness that is missing from youtube, vine, and edited movies and TV shows. I hope live musicals become a tradition for a new generation. Could Music Man be next? We hope that Carrie and crew enjoyed making it as much as we did watching it. We feel that this was a worthwhile experience, especially for anyone who has ever been part of a live performance. We wish they would bring Smash back. It gave a great behind the scene view of the blood, sweat, and tears that make up the stage experience.

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