ONSTAGE & BACKSTAGE: Casting Changes at Disaster! and Audra McDonald's The Sound of Music Stories
A week in the life of actor, radio and TV host, music director and writer Seth Rudetsky. *
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A week in the life of actor, radio and TV host, music director and writer Seth Rudetsky. *
After ratings like this, there is no doubt that conversations at NBC are already underway in regards to next year’s live musical broadcast. Despite the varied reviews, producer Neil Me…
If you still haven’t gotten enough of NBC’s The Sound of Music Live!, it’s time to say “auf Wiedersehen, adieu” to the three-hour live musical extravaganza with…
I was walking down Broadway yesterday, amidst the throngs of tourists, and I overhead one 40-something year old dude from somewhere south of the Mason-Dixon line ask his buddy, “Hey, d…
Let’s face it, the live TV broadcast of The Sound of Music overshadowed whatever exciting news about Broadway itself this week– Â new leads for Bullets Over Broadway and Act On…
NBC's THE SOUND OF MUSIC LIVE aired last December 5 and it's all the theatre world has been talking about since. Below, check out a photo from the wrap party, in fact, it's the very first ph…
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Tony winner Marc Shaiman might be best known to musical theater fans as the man to brought music to 1960′s Baltimore in Hairspray, or for his memorable score to Bombshell on NBC’…
In SNL's condensed version of The Sound of Music Live, Captain von Trapp introduces his children, including Dooneese, to their new governess Maria.
(photo by Andrée Lanthier)The Hills are Alive and Well by …
Carrie Underwood took to Twitter on December 6, the day after NBC's live SOUND OF MUSIC broadcast in which she starred as Maria, to respond to her critics.
I'm sure we all have lots of thoughts and critique about last night's live performance of "The Sound of Music" starring Carrie Underwood. There is lots to say about the individ…
Here's what I liked about THE SOUND OF MUSIC LIVE (or SOUND OF MUSIC TAPE DELAYED on the West Coast). It was event television. The show got big numbers and yesterday everybody was talking …
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How do you solve a problem like Maria, that chipper almost-nun turned nanny who saves a broken family and outwits the Nazis? Not only is she based on an actual person, but she’s …
On last night's live broadcast of THE SOUND OF MUSIC on NBC, Laura Benanti brought some serious attitude to her character -- Baroness Elsa Schraeder. Now, Celebuzz has created a series of GI…
NBC's The Sound of Music Live was a major ratings success, but the show had one undeniable highlight: Laura Benanti as Baroness Elsa Schraeder. From her pantsuits to her perfect pitch, Benan…
TV fans may already know Laura Benanti from roles on Go On, The Playboy Club, Law and Order:SVU, and many others. And of course theater lovers have long been fans of the Tony-winning Broadwa…
Hi, all. It's been a very long semester and I've seen very little theater, and I've missed blogging a bunch. I plan to rectify that starting....now:Last night, along with, um, everyone, I go…
Beth McCarthy-Miller, who directed "The Sound of Music" for NBC on Thursday, discussed what went right and wrong during the telecast.
Kudos to Craig Zadan and Neil Meron for producing a live TV version of The Sound of Music. There's something incomparably sparkling, vivid, and delightful about live performances. In the act…
An imposing Austrian manly-man falls for the nanny even though he is attached to a hot and accomplished brunette, and Twitter explodes over it. No, it's not the Arnold Schwarzenegger " Maria…
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. network NBC's live telecast of the musical "The Sound of Music" played to the tune of 18.5 million viewers, the Comcast Corp-owned broadcaster said on Friday, he…
The musical, starring Carrie Underwood, drew 18.5 million viewers, the network's largest nonsports Thursday night audience since 2009.
How do you solve a problem like nostalgia?