The Hills Are Alive

I have to admit that I was excited to hear that Carrie Underwood was involved in a new production of “The Sound of Music.” I know a lot of people were not happy and were claiming that Carrie was trying to replace Julie Andrews. Just an FYI, this production was not a remake of the movie, it was a live staging of the actual Rodgers and Hammerstein musical (along the lines of the original Cinderella and Peter Pan productions).

People even decided that a traditional dirndl was too inappropriate for this.

I watched it live last night, and I loved it. The casting was pretty spot on; Stephen Moyer (Bill from “True Blood”) was probably the weakest link. Elsa, Max, and the kids were all very good. Audra McDonald (from “Private Practice”), who plays Mother Superior, was spectacular and should never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever do any non-singing role ever again. It just isn’t fair to humanity for her to not sing. Watch this and be amazed. Do you know how hard it is to sing in that kind of cold?

Who else watched? What did you think?