Posted on 12/06/2013 9:07:36 AM PST by SeekAndFind
NBC’s big winter gamble paid off: The Sound of Music Live! delivered a massive audience Thursday night. The three-hour performance of the classic Rodgers & Hammerstein musical delivered 18.5 million viewers and a great 4.6 rating among adults 18-49. This is NBC’s biggest Thursday in the adult demo excluding sports since the ER finale in 2009. Obviously, it’s also far and away NBC’s strongest non-sports Thursday performance this season; the network has had all sorts of ratings headaches on this night given its troubled comedy block.
Sound of Music was Thursday’s most-watched show and tied CBS’ Big Bang Theory in the demo to win the evening.
While skepticism about the Sound of Music stunt ran high leading up to the show, viewers were generally enthusiastic about the performance, which was executed without any technical or performance glitches.
I’m with ya - I see nothing wrong here
Carrie’s voice was strong, but her frequent obvious teleprompter readings were a distraction, as were the out-of-place Black Benedictine nuns in 1938 Austria (although they sounded terrific).
To buy that takes a real suspension of disbelief.
The truth is more like they couldn't find Asian actors of the required level of guild membership.
I'm jealous. Where else in Europe did you travel?
I only caught the second half of last night's production. This is how television programming used to be. Hopefully other broadcasters will follow suit.
LOL! Good idea!
Julie Andrews is sexy as heck all the way around.
So well articulated. Couldn't agree more. I thought Audra McDonald hit all the right notes -- musically and otherwise. Loved it all.
ROFL, now that’s funny.
I hate you.
And I'd love to have dinner with you and hear all about it!
Don’t hate!
My mother chose Bled because lot’s of British tourists were going there and it was on the way down from Salzburg to southern Yugoslavia.
http://www.slovenia.info/?_ctg_kraji=2519
Back then we didn’t have google maps etc so looking on a map we had estimated roughly a 8 or 9 hour drive to Dubrovnik. With all the twists and turns along the Adriatic it ended up taking almost 13 hours (we also stopped along the way at spots where we liked the view).
http://www.tzdubrovnik.hr/eng/
Dubrovnik was a rival shipping port to Venice in the middle ages, the difference being Dubrovnik was fortified to defend itself. Venice tended to negotiate with hostile invaders.
Dubrovnik to Venice was also a long drive, about 13 hours as well. Parked on the mainland and took the water taxi in. We stayed in a 3-star hotel right off of Piazza San Marco. During the day in the high season it’s packed full of daytrippers. At night it clears out and is more relaxing.
And then back home where I was living in Switzerland it was about a 7 hour drive. Not a bad trip all around,
Since you mentioned it, how is it that there was a black Mother Superior in Austria in the 1930’s? That had to be a cave in to the PC crowd. Having posited that, she did have a great voice.
A tip of the hat to the entire show. It was a very well done performance. Since it was a stage performance, they were limited in what they could do. What they did they did well.
That came a year later ;-)
“...”Helluva game....Helluva game....Bears got a great team this year. They’re gonna go all the way.”...”
We’ll see what happens Monday night.
Oh, & BTW
GO COWBOYS!!!!! !
Darn...missed it! Anyone know if it will replay? Thanks.
If it's December, it's Romo time. /S
True, but we're talking about the character of the Mother Abbess, not the von Trapps. The Mother Superior was likely a fictionalized character, albiet positively white, notwithstanding that there was a real Mother Superior at the Nonnberg Abbey.
But let's do talk about the von Trapps. The thing about musical theater is that beautiful music should not be off-limits to others to perform, just because of their race. That's why most people look past the race of the performer when they play a role.
For instance, what if someone tried to produce an all-black The Sound Of Music? Personally, I think that would be more accepted than the notion of an all-white Porgy and Bess, but that's because the African-American community zealously protects "black" arts, while simultaneously demanding entry into the arts of others. Still, white performers do sing the music of Gershwin, but just in concert and not in a staged production.
And then there were the Shakespearean men who played women's roles. Somehow, the audience of that time was able to look past that.
-PJ
Just wondering if anyone else noticed absence of crucifixes on the nuns?
Indeed ... also, the chapel setting contained a blank cross instead of a crucifix.
RE: Darn...missed it! Anyone know if it will replay? Thanks.
You can still watch it in HULU:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/568839
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