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 pointed that out to my wife when we were watching it together last night. All in all it was good but couldn’t hold a candle to the original
All that's missing is her carrying a couple of beer mugs.
Sorry about the second post - internet problems here, likely due to snow and ice.
The making of the show is impressive - especially taking seven young people off the street from open casting 15 weeks prior and turning them into a coordinated singing family.
Watch her sing on stage with the Rolling Stones...watching her wobble around next to Jagger is cringe-worthy.
Sorry about the second post - internet problems here, likely due to snow and ice.
The making of the show is impressive - especially taking seven young people off the street from open casting 15 weeks prior and turning them into a coordinated singing family.
I give it a very well done so far. Saw half, recorded the remainder to see tonight. Especially good was Underwood who did Julie Andrew’s role without trying to be ‘different’. So many stars want to make a role ‘their own’ and really crap it up like the screeching of the Star Spangled Banner. Remarkable for a live show.
It's not really a nuclear family. It's a widower who marries his MUCH younger nanny, who lives in his home, and who in real life delivered her first child well under 9 months after the wedding (if I recall correctly). Libs should like it. The only "flaw" in the eyes of the far left is that the father opposes all totalitarian socialists, not just the national socialists.
That’s so funny! I find it amazing when one of my daughter’s knows the words to songs I played in the car when they were very young. And they love them!
I have to admit, I have never seen the original. So, although I do not normally enjoy musicals, I liked it and the story so far. We will finish watching it (recorded) over the weekend. I don't even know how it ends. LOL
I liked Greece, West Side Story and Little Shop of Horrors. That is all I can recall that I like in the way of Musicals. I guess they are all pretty old productions. Did not like Rent or that 80s Rock and Roll one that came out a couple years ago.
That’s exactly what I did last night during this show! This just brought back a memory of when I was a kid and my family went to see the movie when it first came out. I chose instead to go to the double-feature horror movie screening in the theater next door. That probably explains a lot about me.
>>>This story lacks diversity and is not inclusive. Showing a nuclear family as a model offends more modern, enlightened sensibilities.<<<
It also encourages dissent against the government. Captain Von Trapp was a traitor for tearing the Nazi flag and fleeing Austria rather than serving Obama - I mean Hitler in the Navy.
On the positive side, Maria was “green” when she recyled the drapes.
Eight kids from two mommies is not an endorsement of abortion or free birth control, either.
-PJ
yes- but the sets in the musical of West Side Story can be easily reproduced on a stage...watching the Van Trap family walk over a man made mound last night versus watching them climb the Austrian alps in the movie is night and day...
one of the final scene’s where the nuns say “Mother Superior I have sinned” only to show Mother Superior they pulled the distributor caps from the Nazi’s cars is also classic...
i recommend you watch the movie...
Sound of Music was a surprise ratings hit.
Duck Dynasty was a surprise.
The Bible mini series was a surprise.
So many “surprises” that keep repeating themselves over and over.
You hit the nail on the head. With this in mind let's expand and explore the business sense of all media (hollywood, network and news). Even "Family Guy", though having a liberal bent/bias is rooted in an intact family that always comes together in the end. Patriotic and Christian wholesome themes seem to be recipes for success.
So why wouldn't prudent business and marketing people re-visit a business plan for, if nothing else, profits? Simply stated, without a moral compass they both fail to recognize the basis of the successful formula and/or dismiss it as even a contributing factor. These folks would fail in most other industries as a result of their myopic, social bubble existence, influence and experience.
They are out of touch with their customers.
“I still get a little tingle when I see Julie’s smile in Mary Poppins. Something about the lips and teeth. Sexy as heck.”
Yeah.
“Totally contrary to the character and role, I know. “
Not necessarily. Watch the dance sequence with Burt. Check out how their cane and umbrella hook together.
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