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.
Was it just me or did anyone else find it strange that Mother Superior was black???
Really!!!
In Austria —
Political correctness has come to the Sound of Music and prewar Austria.
I try to watch, collect, and keep the famous movies of all time - Lawrence of Arabia, Gone With the Wind, Spartacus, you know, the real blockbusters.
I gave West Side Story away. That flick is just way, way, way too gay...
WAY!! too gay!
The entire production is online for free (with commercials) at this link:
http://www.nbc.com/sound-of-music/video/the-sound-of-music-live/n43944/?auto=true
At the time of their wedding in 1927, Georg von Trapp was 47 and Maria Augusta Kutschera was 22. Their first child was born in February, 1929. So saith Wikipedia ...
We can assume the movie wasn’t shot in one take. With enough do-overs, we could all come across as Laurence Olivier.
a wholesome story about an actual family of straight people escaping the jack boot of oppressive socialism that centered around a leader that activated the impressionable youth into his informants and had his own symbol superimposed over his country’s flag and targeted his political adversaries using the government agencies.
hmmmm.. sounds familiar..
How can you say that?! I thought it was FAAAAAbulus! ;o)
Hey great. I can stream this through one of my devices to my 3D TV and see it as if it were just showing for the first time. And I can watch it in 3D.
Excellent.
I really appreciate the link. Cool...
Married 11/26/1927, Rosemarie born February 8, 1928 according to her immigration papers. This may be in error, but that's what she claimed (or what the clerk typed for her). I'll admit that I made an effort to make their relationship sound more appealing to the far left, and that these dates are somewhat in question.
On occasions, to some degree, yes, I would have to agree. However, I mix live sound and it is, at least for me, extraordinarily difficult to get the balance exactly right between, say, an orchestra and the vocalists for a recording while it is happening, even with extensive rehearsals and sound checks, so perhaps I am a little more tolerant than I should be. But that is why re-mixing is done. I don't know exactly how this production was done, but if the recording mix was different from the room mix, and even if there were a separate sound engineer just mixing the recording in real time it is still very difficult to get it exactly right live, especially wearing headphones as opposed to using studio monitors.
My wife was watching in the other room while I was doing something else on the computer (probably on FreeRepublic) and I didn't even realize that it was a live show. I was absent-mindedly humming along with the tunes. I thought the performances and mix generally were excellent I and I give them a lot of credit for the quality they did manage to achieve.
Cordially,
Reminded me of Hogan’s Heroes when they would have Kinchloe in a German Uniform........Right?!?!?! Oh no, they wouldn’t give them away.
The theatre’s so obsessed
With dramas so depressed
It’s hard to sell a ticket on Broadway
Shows should be more pretty
Shows should be more witty
No matter what you do on the stage
Keep it light, keep it bright, keep it gay!
Whether it’s murder, mayhem or rage
Don’t complain, it’s a pain
Keep it gay!
If I want to see a bunch of dudes dance and fight, I’ll stick in Clockwork Orange.
At least that way, I get a little bit of Ludvig Van out of the deal!
;-)
The orchestra was was pre-recorded. The vocals were of course live.
Hey, it works!
She doesn't look pregnant. OTOH, I get your rhetorical purposes ...
And maybe another theme —
A family — and especially the father, who love their country beyond compare.
Plays and opera use “blind casting” which often puts blacks in the part of a white character. This is probably why the mother abyss was cast with a very talented black singer.
I remember that —
LOL
-PJ
The Sound of Music is supposed to be historically correct.
Suspension of disbelief deals with fiction not history.
Heck why stop there?? Why not played by Mick Jagger???
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