What is this, the movie Scrooged? I kind of wish it was, and this live broadcast of The Sound of Music that will star Carrie Underwood as Maria von Trapp ends with a drunken NBC executive wandering on stage and everyone starts singing Jackie DeShannon songs.
“Speaking for everyone at NBC, we couldn’t be happier to have the gifted Carrie Underwood take up the mantle of the great Maria von Trapp,” said NBC Entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt
Someone spike Greenblatt’s egg nog, stat!!! Maybe he’ll learn his lesson and we’ll get more Community episodes!
The event is three hours long and produced by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, did Smash and are doing the Oscars this year.
The Sound of Music was a musical before it was the iconic film, so it’s not like we’re suddenly remaking Citizen Kane all of a sudden. That happens next…
The hills are alive, y’all!