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NBC To Air ‘Sound Of Music’ Live Show Dec. 5

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday May 13, 2013 @ 9:56am PDTTags: NBC, The Sound Of Music
Nellie Andreeva

A three-hour live staging of the The Sound Of Music will premiere on NBC on Thursday, December 5, the network announced during its upfront presentation today. The project is executive produced by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, with Carrie Underwood cast as the lead Maria. NBC entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt noted that such big family-oriented productions are rarely mounted these days, “but we are doing it anyway.” Based on the original Broadway musical, The Sound Of Music is set in pre-WWII Austria and  based on the romantic true story of Maria von Trapp (Underwood), an aspiring nun who leaves the abbey to become a governess for the widower Captain von Trapp’s seven children and finds herself falling in love with her employer and questioning her religious calling. It premiered on Broadway in 1959, where it broke box office records and won the Tony for Best Musical. The Sound Of Music features a libretto by Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse and a score by Richard Rodgers (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics) that includes “My Favorite Things,” “Do-Re-Mi,” “Edelweiss,” and “So Long, Farewell.”

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Carrie Underwood Cast As Maria In NBC’s Live Broadcast Of ‘The Sound Of Music’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday November 30, 2012 @ 9:37am PSTTags: Big Deals TV, Carrie Underwood, NBC, The Sound Of Music
Nellie Andreeva

Carrie Underwood is following into Julie Andrews’ footsteps. In her first major acting gig, the Grammy winner has been tapped to star as Maria von Trapp in NBC’s live broadcast of The Sound Of Music. It’s based on the original Broadway musical and is executive produced by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, producers of NBC’s Smash and the 2013 Academy Awards. The three-hour event will air near the holidays in 2013. “Speaking for everyone at NBC, we couldn’t be happier to have the gifted Carrie Underwood take up the mantle of the great Maria von Trapp,” said NBC’s chairman Bob Greenblatt. “She was an iconic woman who will now be played by an iconic artist.” Added Zadan and Meron, “It’s a particular joy to us as producers to see this amazing artist stretch into new territory with this classic musical.” Read More »

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Dick Zanuck: A Hollywood Legacy Like No Other – Hammond

By PETE HAMMOND | Friday July 13, 2012 @ 5:43pm PDTTags: 20th Century Fox, Big Deals Film, Dick Zanuck, Jaws, Steven Spielberg, The Sound Of Music, Tim Burton
Pete Hammond

With Dick Zanuck’s sudden passing today at the age of 77 one of the last direct links of a still-active bigtime Hollywood player to the beginnings of the major studios is also gone. When he was hired in 1962 by his father, the legendary … Read More »

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NBC To Air Live Broadcast Of ‘The Sound Of Music’ Musical Produced By Craig Zadan & Neil Meron

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday June 29, 2012 @ 10:35am PDTTags: Craig Zadan, NBC, Neil Meron, The Sound Of Music
Nellie Andreeva

Sound Of Music NBC SpecialNBC is looking to bring back to broadcast television event musical programming with The Sound Of Music, a live broadcast of a new production of the original Broadway musical to be produced by Smash executive producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron. “There used to be a tradition of broadcasting musicals live back in the 1950s and we’re thrilled to do it once again with a musical that has been a family classic for five decades,” said NBC chairman Robert Greenblatt. “There is no more talented and creative producing team than Craig Zadan and Neil Meron to bring Rodgers and Hammerstein’s final — and most beloved — collaboration to network television in this groundbreaking live telecast.” Casting will begin immediately and an air date will be announced shortly. Read More »

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