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They said tonight that nothing similar had been tried in 50 years; a musical done live on TV. My guess is that the last one was the classic from my childhood "Peter Pan." Yes, for me Captain Hook is Cyril Richard (who is that, you ask). He was gone by the time the last live TV production was done. I'm not even sure that Mary Martin was still Peter in the last live TV production. Hers is the one I remember.
Oddly enough it was Mary Martin who made the role of Maria von Trapp famous. We think of Julie Andrews and the movie, but it was Mary Martin who first made a hit of the role.
How was the show tonight? I thought is was pretty good. Will it make us forget the movie? No, a live production isn't going to be perfect. They didn't have the luxury of 20 takes on every scene. There were a few minor boo boos. Carrie Underwood slipped slightly walking down the fake hill in the title song "The Sound of Music." Other people saw somebody's dress get stepped on in the party at the von Trapp's. No major disasters. The show went on.
Not going to go too deeply into the indivuals. I thought the kids tonight were better than the one's in the movie: better direction, and they were more natural. Maria (Underwood)and Captain von Trapp (Stephen Moyer) were adequate, better singers than actors. Mother Superior (Audra McDonald) was superb, and that's the one role that has to be or the whole thing would fall flat.
See it if you can, but don't waste your money buying the hard copy. Julie Andrews and company are still the one.
Oddly enough it was Mary Martin who made the role of Maria von Trapp famous. We think of Julie Andrews and the movie, but it was Mary Martin who first made a hit of the role.
How was the show tonight? I thought is was pretty good. Will it make us forget the movie? No, a live production isn't going to be perfect. They didn't have the luxury of 20 takes on every scene. There were a few minor boo boos. Carrie Underwood slipped slightly walking down the fake hill in the title song "The Sound of Music." Other people saw somebody's dress get stepped on in the party at the von Trapp's. No major disasters. The show went on.
Not going to go too deeply into the indivuals. I thought the kids tonight were better than the one's in the movie: better direction, and they were more natural. Maria (Underwood)and Captain von Trapp (Stephen Moyer) were adequate, better singers than actors. Mother Superior (Audra McDonald) was superb, and that's the one role that has to be or the whole thing would fall flat.
See it if you can, but don't waste your money buying the hard copy. Julie Andrews and company are still the one.
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The two last musicals they did were Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella - which was written for television not Broadway, and Peter Pan. They did that one twice - Cathy Rigby played the second version. I think I vaguely remember seeing both ( it aired in the 1970s..).
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One of Mary Martin's later live performances was filmed in color and replayed for a few years, but as she predicted people got tired of it.