Who's watching Sound of Music live?

Here in the timezone everyone forgets, it's taped and not starting until 0200 utc.
 
Fran had it on for a while, and then turned it off -- said the local high school's production was better. I'm watching football.
 
I watched it. Overall it wasn't bad. Audra McDonald was the real standout. I hadn't realized that she had an opera background before this. Carrie Underwood can't act. The initial title song was pretty rough (partly due to the fact that everybody is ingrained with the Julie Andrews version of the song and Carrie's more of an Alto and thus had to sing it in a lower register). The subsequent songs were much better.

Staging was neat for a live performance. I always remember my high school version of it when a piece of scenery crashed backstage while Maria was singing "the hills are alive."

Stephen Moyer was the weak part. Fortunately they scaled back a lot of his singing. Borle is a good singer but they put him in a role that only had a partial of two songs. The kids were good.

Note that if you get the iTunes audio of this (why I do not know), that it's not the live performance. It was done in the recording studio at the time the orchestrations were recorded (which were NOT live during the broadcast).
 
What initial song? Sound of Music has no overture and begins with the nuns silently walking across the stage, then chanting as Maria runs in late.

I wasn't aware it was being broadcast live. Was it the movie version or the real one? The role of Max is very different.

These guys can pay for a whole TV crew and can't spring for a live orchestra? That would seriously deaden the performance. There is a HELL of a lot of adaptation that goes on in a pit, especially if the actors are really good.
 
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MAKG1 said:
What initial song? Sound of Music has no overture and begins with the nuns silently walking across the stage, then chanting as Maria runs in late.

I wasn't aware it was being broadcast live. Was it the movie version or the real one? The role of Max is very different.
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I was referring to Maria's first song not the nun's Preludium. (By the way, the movie did have an overture inserted between Maria's The Sound of Music and the Preludium where the stage show had no overture and the Preludium first).

It was definitely the the stage version but they edited it pretty heavily leaving out large sections (omitted dialog and scenes and shortening many of the songs) and a couple of the song reprises Several of the songs moved around in the movie (like My Favorite Things) were back in their original places as was at least one song from the stage version that was deleted from the movie was restored (and the songs added for the movie were omitted).
 
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flyingron said:
I watched it. Overall it wasn't bad. Audra McDonald was the real standout. I hadn't realized that she had an opera background before this. Carrie Underwood can't act. The initial title song was pretty rough (partly due to the fact that everybody is ingrained with the Julie Andrews version of the song and Carrie's more of an Alto and thus had to sing it in a lower register). The subsequent songs were much better.

Staging was neat for a live performance. I always remember my high school version of it when a piece of scenery crashed backstage while Maria was singing "the hills are alive."

Stephen Moyer was the weak part. Fortunately they scaled back a lot of his singing. Borle is a good singer but they put him in a role that only had a partial of two songs. The kids were good.

Note that if you get the iTunes audio of this (why I do not know), that it's not the live performance. It was done in the recording studio at the time the orchestrations were recorded (which were NOT live during the broadcast).
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Agree with you. Carrie was wooden and Audra was awesome. I enjoyed it nonetheless especially seeing as this sort of thing is not done these days.
 
I'm an opera fan and have several in which Audra McDonald has a starring role. She is really remarkable... and it's nice to see the pretty white world of opera showcasing someone of color.

I saw most of the live SOM last night.. and I liked Carrie Underwood, I think she did a creditable job for someone who is basically a country singer, with no real training.
 
FlyGirlKHWO said:
I'm an opera fan and have several in which Audra McDonald has a starring role. She is really remarkable... and it's nice to see the pretty white world of opera showcasing someone of color.

I saw most of the live SOM last night.. and I liked Carrie Underwood, I think she did a creditable job for someone who is basically a country singer, with no real training.
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Creditable is an apt term. Were it not for Carrie's name recognition, they could have starred someone of Audra's calibre. I like Carrie as a singer but she lacked spark. Maybe it was nerves.
 
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