Carrie Underwood to play Maria in 'The Sound of Music Live!'
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E-mail CNTV, December 6, 2013
A new voice will echo through the hills this year with a new version of the Oscar winning "The Sound of Music". This week NBC will air a live stage production of the hit musical, with country singer Carrie Underwood stepping into the role of Maria.
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For the first time in more than 50 years, a complete musical is set to be staged on TV.
"We are doing a musical live on television, which is something that people don't really do anymore! So it's a very exciting project and will be three hours of awesome," Underwood said.
Singing along with Underwood is "True Blood"'s Stephen Moyer, who will be playing Captain Von Trapp.
"Walking into the rehearsal room and feeling a little bit worried about these Broadway legends that I'm working with and yet, you know, it just feels like putting on another costume and it's part of who I was when I grew up, and you know it's lovely to be back and doing it again," Moyer said.
The three-hour show features every song from the original production, all performed on a Long Island stage.
"We haven't had an actual complete musical broadcast live on television since 1957 with Rodgers Hammerstein's 'Cinderella', and that's the last time it's been done. So this is a pretty humongous undertaking," said singer Audra Mcdonald. "And what they've done, it's basically the Broadway musical version of the script that we're doing."
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In addition to Underwood, Moyer and McDonald, the cast is packed with Broadway veterans like Christian Borle, who says fans of the beloved 1965 film starring Julie Andrews are in for a real treat.
"So what's going to happen is, I think when they think the songs are going to come, all of a sudden there's going to be a left turn, and it's going to be an old favorite, but just in a different place," Borle said.
Underwood knows the pressure will be on, but breathed a sigh of relief when she heard that Andrews herself had blessed the production.
"It means a lot," she said. "I would never want to step on somebody's toes or do something that someone didn't want me to do, so for her to be able to - of course she's so nice and she's such class, of course she would be nice about it - but it really meant a lot to hear those words from her."
"The Sound of Music Live!" airs on December 5th, when the hills will once again be alive with the sound of music.
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