The Sound of Music Live - the making of

actually, the best part of all those pictures is the look on chewing captain's face right next to them. hahaha...

I thought it was great. The whole point of the song is that he IS angry about what's happening, and it sets up the breakup between him and Elsa. As I've said before/elsewhere, I think his inconsistency was directly related to the actors he was playing against. He was, overall, much better with Elsa and Max; and I did like the scene with him and the children when they were talking about why Maria was gone.

Utility: couldn't agree more about "NWTSI". I watched it again on YT yesterday, and that moment at the end where Elsa and Georg look at each other with the shared realization that they are going to break up, was one of the very best moments of the whole telecast IMHO.

Lemacd, great idea to think of moments you wish had been in the film! I sort of liked having two Nazis instead of one (let's ignore that one of them flubbed his lines), because it made it less personal about Zeller vs. Georg. But then I guess the film would have swung back over to being more political and less romantic, and . . . we wouldn't want that, would we? The mirror moment would have been nice, although I think it worked better in the play because one had more of a sense of an underlying personal connection between M and RM because of the setup for My Favorite Things.

I liked the little Agathe moment, but as others have observed, it didn't really go anywhere, clunk.

YES.  
And while I do much prefer the placement of the songs in the movie, I like in the show how My Favorite Things sheds a little more light on RM, and her character and sets an even more emotional tone for Climb Ev'ry Mountain later. I felt when Audra sang it, it was extra moving because we knew she'd fought that battle and made her choice, but she knew how difficult it was and was going to be for Maria. As good as Peggy Wood was, it was a very different song/feeling in the movie. You got a glimpse of it, but not enough.

this is also how I felt about the whole emphasis on the Nazi/politics frame: that even though I love the film and am happy about the choices WIse/Lehmann made, I really appreciated the original more than I expected to. The two omitted songs, the changes in placement, etc. I didn't expect that to be the reason I liked this production, so it was like a little gift.

re: the mirror part, i was thinking of the epic final chapter of your honeymoon story. the whole idea of her seeing herself so differently. i think it still could have been a maria/RM moment.

i liked the extra insight into RM background. really helps us understand why she isn't as hard on maria as her position probably would have called for her to be. i love movie RM... she so wise, so patient and understanding. like that person in your life that never seems to get flustered but doesn't judge you for getting all worked up over things. i'm rambling...

re: the brigitta scene, yes liked that very much. i like maria finding out the captain is in love w/ her from the baroness better, but it was cute. and more like how it happened in real life with the children kick starting things.

i think if rolf's part in the escape was more like the stage version, i might have to rethink his toolness. unless he was wearing those shorts. then i'd be too conflicted.

Well at least the children got brown paper packages tied up with strings.. and thank goodness Elsa didn't have to wonder about her harmonica during that night when they all sang 'the Edelweiss song'.. she could have borrowed Liesl's!

I LOVED that first kiss, actually. I just wish your GIF had captured, er, more of it.

A kiss like that would have scared the hell out of her. But not me. I'm a brave girl.

You keep 'em there, darling.

Haha I'll try and work on that one, too. Let's see if I can impress you.. Probably not ;-) we'll have to wait and see!

I'm sorry, but I don't agree with him on this one. That kiss was great! He's just jealous because he can't kiss anyone with that hunk of food stuck in his mouth.

Hey, like I always say: Any story about a man with two wives and seven children shows us that there's plenty of room the world to do things more than one way.

another point in favor of the stage version: i prefer the captain saying "we should get them together... the reverend mother and brigitta." over the ridiculous pine cone - silly whistle bit.

thought carrie and stephen's 'something good' was rather, uh... good.