MEGA STAGE TUBE: All the Performances - THE SOUND OF MUSIC LIVE! Starring Carrie Underwood on NBC

By: Dec. 05, 2013
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Tonight's the night! The Hills sang across the country tonight when NBC aired its live television special of The Sound of Music. Check out all the performances from the special live production below!

Starring country music star Carrie Underwood as 'Maria,' the cast features Audra McDonald ("Private Practice"), who has won five Tony Awards and two Grammys, as Mother Abbess; Stephen Moyer ("True Blood") as Capt. Georg von Trapp; Tony Award winner Christian Borle ("Smash") as von Trapp family friend Max Detweiler; and Tony winner Laura Benanti ("Go On") as Elsa Schrader, the captain's one-time fiancee.

"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 for Best Musical. The 1965 film adaptation won the Oscar for Best Picture.



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