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Although we shouldn't necessarily need to be reminded, this type of event programming highlights the entirely different type of scale involved in successful (financially at least) broadcast …
Oh hell no. Don't come for Queen Audra McDonald, the five time Tony winner who was arguably the best part of NBC's The Sound of Music Live!
When was the last time that you really listened to The Sound of Music? Musical theater enthusiasts tend to avoid mega-hits. We played them so much when we first came to know them, after we'd…
Peter Filichia, James Marino and Michael Portantiere talk about NBC’s live broadcast of The Sound of Music. Other reviews include Small Engine Repair, How I Learned What I Learned, …
Following in the overwhelming success of The Sound of Music Live! on NBC last week, the network has committed to producing another live staging of a Broadway musical in 2014, according to Th…
Eleanor Parker, who played 'Baroness Elsa Schrader' in the 1966 film The Sound of Music starring Julie Andrews, passed away today, December 9, 2013. She was 91.
Unless you've been hiding under a rock, you know that Carrie Underwood recently starred in NBC's production of Rodgers amp Hammerstein's beloved musical THE SOUND OF MUSIC. Whether you loved…
Oscar-nominated actress Eleanor Parker, best known today for her role as the Baroness, the lady friend of Captain Von Trapp who loses out to Julie Andrews' Maria in 1966 film "The Sound of M…
Last Thursday, NBC presented a live production of the classic musical The Sound of Music, with Carrie Underwood as its star Maria. Mark McLain Wilson maintains that The Sound of Music Liv…
Ratings for "The Sound of Music" have encouraged NBC to consider making live musical productions a holiday tradition.
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 …