<p>Not one bit interested in seeing this. Some classics should not be touched. I would also would have preferred an unknown versus Carrie Underwood.</p>
<p>Well, then no-one would be talking about it. The name is necessary to draw an audience. She’s surrounded by a stellar cast but no-one has heard of most of them.</p>
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I think there are some people here who could recite the movie verbatim from start to finish. They may be disappointed/unhappy with differences between the show and the movie.
So you never want to see a band cover a song, never want to see a different conductor conduct a symphony, never want to see an artist paint their version of a landscape…</p>
<p>Why would you have a preference if you have no interest in seeing it?</p>
<p>This production sounds like so much fun! When my kids were little, we would take them to the Hollywood Bowl for the summer showings of SOM. Before the movie started they would bring out the original Liesel and give us silly instructions like we were to hiss at the baroness whenever she appeared on screen haha. </p>
<p>The audience would really get into it too, they would dress as brown paper packages, tied up with string or the curtains complete with a rod sticking out of their shirts. Those summer evenings at the Bowl, were a a blast. I would think that an actual live production would be even more engaging to SOM fans even without Julie!</p>
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This is getting OT but SalveMater’s post reminds me of the “Von Trapped!” episode of “Will and Grace” in which the cast dressed as the characters for a SOM sing-along night. Will is the Captain, Karen and Rosario are nuns, Jack is in lederhosen, and Grace is a Maria who can’t sing and is lousy with kids. I can’t find any YouTube clips but if you can see the show anywhere, it is hysterical. I think SOM fans would especially love the escape sequence when they have to break out of a supply closet and evade the ushers.</p>
<p>I understand the objections to the “stunt casting,” but it seems to me that this project would never have been made unless there was a very famous name in the role of Maria. Just be grateful it isn’t Lady Gaga. (On second thought, maybe she’d be good.)</p>
<p>I saw a revival of Sound of Music on Broadway years ago, and the Maria in that was really good. The stage show is just a different thing from the movie, and the TV version will probably be a different thing as well.</p>
<p>And just a note: when was the last time people were talking about a broadcast TV show?</p>
<p>I have no idea if Underwood will be a good Maria or not.
But all this “only Julie Andrews” or “Julie Andrews is the original Maria” stuff is just bizarre.
The SoM started out as a live on-stage musical, not a film.
Mary Martin was the original Maria, not Julie Andrews.
I have seen SoM live on stage as well as many other musicals.
Enjoying different performers is part of the live theatre experience.
John Barrymore is not the only person to have played Hamlet. ;)</p>
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<p>The poster said SOME classics, not ALL.</p>
<p>So how would YOU feel about a remake of Casablanca with, say, Tom Cruise, Uma Thurman, and Chris Rock?</p>
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It might be good, it might not be. It has to stand on its own merits.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t refuse to watch it just because I have an image in my head of how it is supposed to be. If it was good, kudos to the new production; if it was bad, it just cements even further the quality of the original.</p>
<p>There are plenty of remakes or new productions that were better than the original.</p>
<p>Maybe a bit off topic, but I have a friend who grew up in Salzburg and had never heard of SOM or the von Trapp family. I was almost as disappointed by that as when I realized that Edelweis isn’t really an Austrian song.</p>
<p>motherbear, if you really don’t want to be disappointed, never google the actual true story of the Von Trapps. ;)</p>
<p>I was disappointed when I looked at when the Anchluss was: March. The Von Trapps walked over the Alps to Switzerland in the winter? </p>
<p>But who cares? Every time I watch the SOM movie, I’m still afraid the Nazis will get them.</p>
<p>It’s over 200 miles from Salzburg to Switzerland, which might explain why they took a train to Italy instead. :D</p>
<p>Adjusted for inflation, SoM would be the third-highest grossing film in the U.S and Canada, after only Gone With The Wind and Star Wars, and 5th highest world wide.</p>
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<p>Every time I watch ‘Sixteen Going on Seventeen’, I still am afraid Charmian Carr is going to miss one of those bench jumps and crash (which actually happened to her during the filming) through a window.</p>
<p>Well, notrichenough, if you are willing to contemplate a remake of Casablanca–especially with that cast–you are far more open minded than I. :)</p>
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<p>Wow, how funny. I was just going to post that.</p>
<p>Not only don’t Google the true story, don’t look at the photos either.</p>
<p>Maria was not at all a tall graceful blond and “Captain” Georg looked nothing like Christopher Plummer.</p>
<p>And of the two, it was the captain that was more nurturing, loving; Maria wasn’t even in love with the captain when the got married; she really wanted to just be a nun.</p>
<p>And they didn’t live in a palatial mansion, either.</p>
<p>Mary Martin, Mary Martin, Mary Martin.</p>
<p>[The</a> Sound of Music <em>The Sound of Music, October 7, 1961</em> - Mary Martin - YouTube](<a href=“- YouTube”>- YouTube)</p>
<p>We had that Mary Martin album growing up–I knew every song by heart.</p>