Gayest gangs, ever.
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.
Why not have Beyonce in the starring role?
You both make good points. I think we could analyze other classic movies/stories.
perfectly said
though it wouldn’t have killed you to put your post to rhyme....
NBC should have more family programming without the obligatory leftist agenda.
:)Your gettin coal for Christmas-hehehhehe
Sure why not —
They could just tell her to lighten up on her songs
And why always situated in the mountains — aren’t the hills alive in the farmlands of Poland???
I think it’s time for this:
A Complete Curmudgeon’s Guide To ‘The Sound Of Music’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3090580/posts
Take Oliver!, for instance. Was Dickens' London an accurate portrayal of Elizabethan times? Did the street sellers sing and dance in unison all time, wondering about "Who will buy?"
Same for Les Miserables and Paris. Only I couldn't see Russell Crowe as Javert, and not because he wasn't French.
We could go on. How about how Carrie Underwood wasn't speaking with an Austrian accent? She supposedly grew up on that mountain by Salzberg, right? But we are willing to suspend that fact in the storytelling...
-PJ
What made it so gay? Besides the music (Bernstein) and the choreography (Robbins)?
I prefer The Simpson’s version:
Do - The stuff that buys me beer
Re - The guy who sells me beer
Mi - The guy who drinks the beer
Fa - The distance to my beer
So - I think I’ll drink some beer
La - La, La, La, La, La, beer
Ti - No thanks, I’m drinking beer
And that’ll bring us back to *sees empty glass* D’OH!
Gayest gangs, ever.
LOL
I would love to see a Simpson’s version of Sound of Music
There’s a difference in hearing something that we know doesn’t match, and seeing something that we know doesn’t match.
Oliver was not about a historical family — this was.
Carrie wasn’t there for her acting skills but for her singing skills.
I hope they reciprocate and give her a part in the family in Oprah’s live for television remake of a Color Purple???
-PJ
few things aren’t improved by a Beyonce addition
The acting guilds threatend to strike because the show cast Caucasian actors who wore eye prostheses to look Asian, rather can cast Asians in those roles. The story goes that they couldn't find any Asian actors of the required level of talent.
-PJ
This was the first time I ever watched the movie....only because I’m a Carrie Underwood fan. I even have the DVD but never watched it..and i’m old! I thought she did a great job...she’s not an actress...but she kept my interest in the movie...
-PJ
1. The original stage play stared Mary Martin (South Pacific, Peter Pan).
2. Give Underwood credit, she made it thru the first live TV play on NBC in over 50 years!
3. For me it was a positive experience, amid the constant negativity.
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