NBC scores with its live Sound of Music

NBC had a big ratings hit the other night with the Sound of Music.  Fay Voshell has a great article on the topic over at American Thinker.

How the Sound of Music came to be. Hey, Pauline Kael* panned the movie, calling it a "sugarcoated lie that people seem to want to eat." The most of the critics were wrong back then and they are wrong now.  

* A Life in the Dark: Pauline Kael  What a surprise.

Many on the Left do not get it, thinking viewers who like this are rubes.  But they only show their own ignorance.

The Baroness, The Captain, and Max

Trooper York had this review and a family connection to the production:

There is a long tradition of TV or Movie stars launching a play because that is only reason why people will come to see the show. We delight in going to Broadway when this happens. Sometimes it is a disaster and sometimes it is great. We have seen Reba, Harry Connick Jr., Brooke Shields,Delta Burke and even the Hoff in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Lifeguard. Carrie was somewhere in between. 
So we going to watch it anyway but there was an added special attraction. The wife's cousin by marriage was going to be in the show! He was going to play the Nazi Admiral who comes to get Captain Von Trapp. Well my mother-in-law called and was on the phone while we watched. She kept saying that an actor was the cousin John. But she was wrong. So we kept calling out everyone in the show. "Look they changed John's nose." "Look they made John a black nun." "I see him. He is the dimmest blub in the sconce." 
He bursts into the room and starts to say his lines. But guess what? He screws up big time! He speaks over the Vampire guy who plays Captain Von Trap. He has to repeat himself and starts to giggle nervously. Great characterization. Germans are know for their sense of humor. You know those Nazi's love to giggle. Like a little girl. 
It was pretty funny. Nothing makes us laugh as much as the humiliation of people we know. I can't wait until Christmas. I want to go up to him and say "Hey John how about a nice piece of Giggling German Chocolate Cake." 

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