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re: Bottom line from Playbill: "The Sound of Music Live! Is Ratings Smash for NBC"

Posted by:	mikem 01:45 pm EST 12/06/13
In reply to:	Bottom line from Playbill: "The Sound of Music Live! Is Ratings Smash for NBC" - MikeR 11:28 am EST 12/06/13

I liked Delvino's suggestion from below of Annie Get Your Gun with Tim McGraw, who can both act and sing, and would be a draw similar to Underwood. And with McGraw's involvement, maybe they could hire a Broadway pro to play Annie (I'm not sure who). To me, the real casting misstep wasn't hiring Underwood (they needed a name who could be confident in singing live), but in hiring Moyer (who probably isn't a ratings draw and was adequate but not really more than that, and who had more chemistry with Benanti than Underwood).

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