# Live "Sound of Music" -- will you watch? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 5, 2013, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-sound-of-music-will-you-watch/675529 "2013-12-05T00:45:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2013, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-sound-of-music-will-you-watch/675529/21 "2013-12-05T06:10:02Z")
The Sound of Music is the one movie I hate more than any other film. I will not be watching a remake. ---
**Author:** ![Tinkertoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f19dbf/32.png) [@Tinkertoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tinkertoy)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2013, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-sound-of-music-will-you-watch/675529/22 "2013-12-05T06:13:00Z")
No I couldn’t stand the original, see no reason to watch a copy. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2013, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-sound-of-music-will-you-watch/675529/23 "2013-12-05T07:55:40Z")
I have programmed the DVR and will at least start to watch it. I don’t have high hopes, but the cast looks good and I have never seen the stage production, just the film (ages ago). Gutsy that they are even trying to air this, so I guess I can at least give it a chance. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2013, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-sound-of-music-will-you-watch/675529/24 "2013-12-05T08:43:54Z")
> [@Jeff\_Lichtman](#): > > I think you mean Julie Andrews. Mary Martin was in South Pacific. True, but Martin performed it first on Broadway, IIRC. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2013, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-sound-of-music-will-you-watch/675529/25 "2013-12-05T15:23:51Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > True, but Martin performed it first on Broadway, IIRC. From [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sound_of_Music#Original_productions), people who played Maria before Julie Andrews: Broadway: Mary Martin Martha Wright Karen Gantz Nancy Dussult National Tour: Florence Henderson Barbara Meister London: Jean Bayless Sonia Rees ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2013, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-sound-of-music-will-you-watch/675529/26 "2013-12-05T16:07:20Z")
> [@the\_diego](#): > > Who’s playing von Trapp, Simon Cowell? Not as suave as Plummer but with a more forceful “No.” I recognized the face of Von Trapp but I couldn’t figure out who it was until I looked it up on the Internets. Vampire Bill is playing Von Trapp. This is intriguing, and I am also intrigued by the live aspect of it. I don’t think that I’m going to be watching this though. ---
**Author:** ![Hermione](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/cdc98d/32.png) [@Hermione](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hermione)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2013, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-sound-of-music-will-you-watch/675529/27 "2013-12-05T16:10:58Z")
Except for a few songs (“Edelweiss” was my Swiss grandmother’s favorite song, and I love “My Favorite Things” even if it gets mislabeled as a Christmas song), TSOM is not my favorite Rodgers and Hammerstein score. South Pacific, The King and I, and Carousel are R & H’s three greatest as far as I am concerned. So this live remake doesn’t really stir me one way or the other. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2013, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-sound-of-music-will-you-watch/675529/28 "2013-12-05T16:54:37Z")
OK, I checked **BigT** ’s link to the title song, and I have mixed feelings. On the one hand, it’s definitely inferior to Julie Andrews-- I lack the musical sophistication to say just how, but it seems to have less… thickness? Substance? Something along those lines. On the other hand, it’s perhaps unfair to Underwood to compare her to Andrews, since very, very few singers are as good as Andrews was, and judged on its own merits, Underwood’s performance is still good. ---
**Author:** ![Aquadementia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aquadementia/32/555_2.png) [@Aquadementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquadementia)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2013, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-sound-of-music-will-you-watch/675529/29 "2013-12-05T17:38:15Z")
I didn’t know people were so ready to hate on The Sound of Music. I’ll give it a go. This is just another production. Lots of people have played the part and Carrie Underwood has a good voice. I expect the rest of the cast will be up to snuff too. > [@Leaffan](#): > > > [@Ponch8](#): > > > > Absolutely not. I hate hillbilly music. > > The Sound of Music is hillbilly music? Well, the hills are alive… > [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > I’m sure Carrie Underwood is fine, but if I want Sound of Music, I’ll watch The Sound of Music. I was going to say she was cute, but sure, yeah, she’s fine. I can’t argue with that. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2013, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-sound-of-music-will-you-watch/675529/30 "2013-12-05T19:26:46Z")
Who sings the Hitler part? ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2013, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-sound-of-music-will-you-watch/675529/31 "2013-12-05T20:50:50Z")
> [@Hermione](#): > > South Pacific, The King and I, and Carousel are R & H’s three greatest as far as I am concerned. So this live remake doesn’t really stir me one way or the other. Replace _King_ with _Oklahoma!_ and I agree 100%. _TSoM_ has songs that are mostly earwigs–superficially catchy but lyrically shallow compared to the work that preceded it. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2013, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-sound-of-music-will-you-watch/675529/32 "2013-12-05T22:13:07Z")
I’ll at least _start_ watching it. If I remember. ---
**Author:** ![CT\_Damsel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CT\_Damsel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CT_Damsel)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2013, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-sound-of-music-will-you-watch/675529/33 "2013-12-05T23:00:11Z")
I voted no. i want Mary Martin and Theodore Bikel or Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer thank you very much. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2013, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-sound-of-music-will-you-watch/675529/34 "2013-12-05T23:14:51Z")
My wife and I will be watching. Looking forward to it. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2013, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-sound-of-music-will-you-watch/675529/35 "2013-12-06T01:18:30Z")
Y’know, the big asset of a live performance is the give-and-take with the audience. This is – lacking. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2013, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-sound-of-music-will-you-watch/675529/36 "2013-12-06T01:21:41Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > Y’know, the big asset of a live performance is the give-and-take with the audience. > > This is – lacking. True. And I’m having a hell of a time buying Carrie Underwood as a naive Austrian nun wannabe. Her voice is great, to be sure, but I’m not sure I’ll finish watching this. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2013, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-sound-of-music-will-you-watch/675529/37 "2013-12-06T01:51:05Z")
She’s not much of an actress – but there’s not all that much acting involved. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2013, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-sound-of-music-will-you-watch/675529/38 "2013-12-06T01:57:58Z")
Where are the microphones? Is this lip-synched? ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2013, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-sound-of-music-will-you-watch/675529/39 "2013-12-06T02:02:16Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Where are the microphones? Is this lip-synched? I was wondering this, but there was one brief point (during the Doe, a deer number) that Underwood clearly got a tad winded, so I don’t think it is. No idea where the mics are. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2013, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-sound-of-music-will-you-watch/675529/40 "2013-12-06T02:05:58Z")
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