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Carrie Underwood sounds off on 'mean people' post-'Sound of Music'
LA Times ^ | Nardine Saad

Posted on 12/07/2013 4:20:52 PM PST by BenLurkin

The live production of the Rodgers and Hammerstein 1959 Broadway musical, also starred "True Bloods" star Stephen Moyer as Maria's employer and love interest, the strict Capt. Georg Von Trapp; Laura Benanti as the Captain's fiancée, Elsa Schrader; multiple Tony Award-winner and "Private Practice" star Audra McDonald as Mother Abbess and "Smash" alum Christian Borle as family friend Max Detweiler. Somehow, each supporting star outshined Underwood in a show fraught with numerous problems, which were promptly maligned on social media.

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Kym Karath, who played Gretl Von Trapp in the film, echoed the family's sentiments.

"Love Carrie Underwood but this role is just not right for her," Karath tweeted during the show. "She is lovely her voice is beautiful but acting is wrong."

"To be clear I love Carrie Underwood. Just not as Maria. She was brave to take it on. And this doesn't lessen my respect for her talent," Karath added.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: carrieunderwood; countrymusic; soundofmusic; underwood
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To: BenLurkin

I stumbled on the movie while channel surfing. It was so amateurishly bad that at first I thought it was a comedy.

That doesn’t make me think more or less of the actors. Everyone gets bad scripts and bad production from time to time.


61 posted on 12/07/2013 5:43:10 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: jocon307
...which are beyond my ken...

Timid and shy and scared are you?

-PJ

62 posted on 12/07/2013 5:44:05 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: GeronL

A true story?

They defeated NAZI’s with singing?

...THE VON TRAPPS....FOUGHT AGAINST THE NAZI’S HE WAS AN AUSTRIAN NAVAL CAPT’ WHO FLED THE COUNTRY WITH HIS FAMILY TRAVELING OVER THE ALPS TO AVOID CONSCRIPTIAN IN TO THE NAZI WAR MACHINE.....CRACK A BOOK ONCE IN AWHILE HAHAHAHA

HOW YA DOIN’ GERON?


63 posted on 12/07/2013 5:48:47 PM PST by jimsin
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To: Bryanw92

You apparently have never seen Julie Andrews in this role…. she was and remains the quintessential Maria.

Carrie Underwood is a nice enough singer but she is no Julie Andrews. Sorry I tried to watch it because I love the musical ‘book’ but could not manage more than 20 minutes


64 posted on 12/07/2013 5:49:59 PM PST by Nifster
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To: BenLurkin

This was like a high school production and the mezzo broke the last phrase of “Climb Every Mountain” when she ran short of breath.


65 posted on 12/07/2013 5:50:56 PM PST by Argus
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To: Pajamajan

Oh yeah really hard…. sorry this used to be done all the time. Apparently you don’t remember Mary Martin in Peter Pan


66 posted on 12/07/2013 5:51:15 PM PST by Nifster
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To: jimsin

The decibels must have been deafening to the krauts

:p


67 posted on 12/07/2013 5:53:35 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: Bryanw92

And because you haven’t don’t take any one’s word who hates that musical.

Julie Andrews was wonderful in the role. The music is a great book and it was just one of those nice uplifting musicals. I have seen many versions and presentations from Broadway to the local community theater. Carrie’s version was okay but not much better than our local high school did.


68 posted on 12/07/2013 5:54:14 PM PST by Nifster
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To: Political Junkie Too

LOL!


69 posted on 12/07/2013 5:55:38 PM PST by jocon307
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To: Argus

The fact that it was live was probably the most impressive part of it


70 posted on 12/07/2013 5:55:48 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: fr_freak

She’s a C&W singer and that’s what makes the genre unique. As in: “I’ve got Friends in Low Places”, “All My Exes Live in Texas”, “I’ll Pray For You” (I pray a flower pot falls on your head), “Mama Got the Pill”, “I’m Gonna Hire a Wino (to decorate our house).....so many.

She also sings “Jesus Take the Wheel” which was a huge hit and a Christian song.

I hope you can forgive her song about a trashed pickup but that doesn’t change the fact that “Mean people need Jesus”. They really do.


71 posted on 12/07/2013 5:59:14 PM PST by JouleZ (You are the company you keep.)
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To: Bryanw92

“I love Carrie Underwood.”

I don’t. She came out for faggot marriage and lectured everyone that we’re idiots for not accepting it. Just search for this clown on FR and you’ll find the articles.


72 posted on 12/07/2013 5:59:42 PM PST by max americana (fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: Revolting cat!
Carrie, I noticed, was all shaved, and I suspect, underwearless.

LOL. If your evil plan was to make me go back and examine that clip frame by frame, your plan worked.

73 posted on 12/07/2013 6:02:21 PM PST by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: Pajamajan

Did you really think I don’t know who the Trapp family was?

They were indeed clever people (show business types) and my hat is off to them.

Of course the subject of movie musicals and Nazis brings Cabaret to mind: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs5bnVoZK4Q


74 posted on 12/07/2013 6:04:31 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Bryanw92
"...none of the children were openly gay."

I didn't see it, but I'd imagine the cast included plenty of black singers, right?

75 posted on 12/07/2013 6:05:47 PM PST by Baynative (Wake me up early, be good to my dogs and teach my children to pray.)
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To: JouleZ
I hope you can forgive her song about a trashed pickup but that doesn’t change the fact that “Mean people need Jesus”. They really do.

Sure they do. And she's one of them.
76 posted on 12/07/2013 6:07:18 PM PST by fr_freak
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To: jimsin
They took a train to Italy. And they were already a family of folk singers because von Trapp lost his fortune when he invested his inheritance in a friend's bank that collapsed.

-PJ

77 posted on 12/07/2013 6:07:50 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: BenLurkin
And depending on the staging, they all die at the end of Cabaret.

-PJ

78 posted on 12/07/2013 6:12:36 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Bryanw92

I agree with the critic. Her voice was good, but her acting was weak.


79 posted on 12/07/2013 6:13:48 PM PST by luckystarmom
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To: GeronL; All
"A true Story?"

"They defeated the Nazis with singing?"
Ehhh, no, not quite.(LOL)

The True Story of The Von Trapp Family.

80 posted on 12/07/2013 6:17:13 PM PST by Pajamajan (Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it today.)
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