NBC's THE SOUND OF MUSIC LIVE!, starring Carrie Underwood as Maria and Stephen Moyer as Capt. Georg von Trapp, will be released on DVD on December 17, 2013, according to a listing on Amazon.
"The Sound of Music Live!" is set to air on Thursday, Dec. 5 (8 PM ET) on NBC.
The cast features country star
Carrie Underwood as Maria,
Audra McDonald ("Private Practice"), who has won fiveTony Awards and two Grammys, as Mother Abbess;
Stephen Moyer ("True Blood"), who will play Capt. Georg von Trapp; Tony Award winner
Christian Borle ("Smash"), who will portray von Trapp family friend Max Detweiler; and Tony winner
Laura Benanti ("Go On"), who will portray Elsa Schrader, the captain's one-time fiancee.
"The Sound of Music," music from the
NBC Television event, will include studio recordings for all of the musical numbers that are performed by the cast members in the live broadcast, including Rodgers and Hammerstein favorites "The Sound of Music," "My Favorite Things," "Do-Re-Mi," "Sixteen Going on Seventeen" and "Climb Ev'ry Mountain," among others.
Executive producers for the telecast are
Neil Meron and
Craig Zadan ("Smash," "The Academy Awards"). Directors are
Rob Ashford ("Evita") and Beth McCarthy-Miller ("30 Rock").
David Chase ("Cinderella") serves as musical director. The soundtrack is licensed through the NBCUniversal Television Consumer Products Group.
"The Sound of Music," set in the 1930s before and during "Anschluss" when the Nazi's annexed Austria, is based on the romantic true story of Maria von Trapp, an aspiring nun who leaves the abbey to become a governess for the widower Capt. von Trapp's seven children. She soon 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 Award forBest Musical. The 1965 film adaptation won the Oscar for Best Picture.
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