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re: SOM THING GOOD

Posted by: dreamawakening 12:23 am EST 12/07/13
In reply to: SOM THING GOOD - hugoP 12:00 am EST 12/07/13

Oh well, I tried to do a positive thread below too but everyone here is too negative.
We should have known better! LOL


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re: SOM THING GOOD

Posted by: PlayWiz 12:29 am EST 12/07/13
In reply to: re: SOM THING GOOD - dreamawakening 12:23 am EST 12/07/13

It's very good that the producers put on a musical, but it's also important for folks to have high standards.

Look at "Peter Pan" with Mary Martin and Cyril Ritchard (if you can find a copy), or old kinescopes of Barbara Cook in "Bloomer Girl", Julie Andrews in "Cinderella", even Lesley Ann Warren and company in the remake.

If they going to do it, do it right, with capable performers.

I still was entertained by the evening, though many times not for the reasons R&H had in mind.


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re: SOM THING GOOD

Posted by: lowwriter 11:47 am EST 12/07/13
In reply to: re: SOM THING GOOD - PlayWiz 12:29 am EST 12/07/13

I know it's just me, but I always found Warren a pale comparison to Andrews in Cinderella.


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re: SOM THING GOOD

Posted by: PlayWiz 12:11 pm EST 12/07/13
In reply to: re: SOM THING GOOD - lowwriter 11:47 am EST 12/07/13

She was very pretty though, and it made an impact. But seeing both performances later on, Andrews' performance is indeed superior.


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re: SOM THING GOOD

Posted by: hugoP 12:46 am EST 12/07/13
In reply to: re: SOM THING GOOD - PlayWiz 12:29 am EST 12/07/13

I think I am in the ATC minority in that I don't feel Carrie Underwood was a ridiculous notion. She has a wonderful voice and has a lot of stage presence when performing pop and country. That sometimes translates...and sometimes doesn't...into success in acting roles. And Stephen Moyer was also a bet worth making. And casting pros like Audra and Laura likely helped the whole cast find their footing. This production was created with very high standards and very big ambitions...yeah, we can all criticize what didn't work (and plenty did not work) but a lot doesn't work in live television. When you watch old kinescopes from the Golden Age of Television you see lots of static stagings, lots of wooden performances, lots of awkward moments...and lots of powerful, unforgettable things. SOUND OF MUSIC LIVE had a few of those, too. And, even though it only part-way worked, they did it without a net...and without auto-tune....and without re-dos...and without any guarantees. I freely criticize cynical, low-expectation, bottom-feeding television all the time....this, for all of its flaws, was not that.


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re: SOM THING GOOD

Posted by: lowwriter 11:50 am EST 12/07/13
In reply to: re: SOM THING GOOD - hugoP 12:46 am EST 12/07/13

My feeling is that if this had been an actual production of SOM that had allowed a few previews, Carrie might have improved acting wise with an audience. It was risky doing it this way.
I know Moyer had some stage experience but I think they should have tried harder casting Von Trapp since he didn't have much chemistry with Carrie.


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re: SOM THING GOOD

Posted by: Chromolume 12:52 am EST 12/07/13
In reply to: re: SOM THING GOOD - hugoP 12:46 am EST 12/07/13

And has anyone yet noted that the telecast also dodged a major potential bullet? Had the announcement of Mandela's death come only a few hours later than it did, might NBC have felt covering that news was more important than a live musical? That could have been a very odd situation. (I assume that they would have simply held the broadcast - or held on at whatever point it was interrupted, resuming after the coverage. But who knows?)


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