![]() ![]() ![]() We’re here to set the record straight: San Antonio is more than the River Walk and the Alamo.įrom offbeat museums to underground speakeasies to the largest Virgin Mary mosaic in the world, here are some of San Antonio’s weird and wonderful attractions off the beaten path! “Hopefully they’ll say, ‘That not what they did - but that’s cool.Looking for something to do in San Antonio besides the River Walk? Here are a few hidden gems that go beyond the typical tourist-y attractions. “I’m sure people will say, ‘That’s not what they did in the movie,’” says Chase. There are also two additional songs from the stage production sung by Elsa and Max, which flesh out the political subplot of the Anschluss - when Germany annexed Austria in 1938. “So many people love it, and the first time we went through the music it was clear Carrie so completely connects with it,” says Chase. “Something Good”- which they’re keeping, even though it, too, was written for the movie.“The Lonely Goatherd" is sung by Maria to the kids in her bedroom, in place of “My Favorite Things.”.(“It enhances the relationship between those two characters,” Chase explains.) “My Favorite Things” is not sung by Maria and the children, but Maria and the Mother Abbess.“The Sound of Music” - Underwood will sing the opening verse.To hedge their bets, a pianist will play along for the entire show, so if the unthinkable happens and the orchestral track cuts out, the music will go on.Įven if all goes smoothly, the differences between the stage version and the film will keep audiences guessing. With one exception: The orchestra played live. “They did it in much the same way back in the ’50s.” "We’ve timed everything - costume and set changes - around commercials,” says music director David Chase. Clearly that’s why Meron and Zadan picked this property for their TV experiment. “Plus there’s amazing music, adorable kids, and this political backdrop of one of the greatest atrocities in human history - it sort of has everything.” Climb ev'ry mountain Okay. “Maria is awakening to love and the person she’s meant to be, the Captain’s awakening to music and reconnecting with his children - it’s about people coming into their own, and I think audiences are always moved by stories like that,” says Benanti, who played Maria in the 1990s Broadway revival. The very fact the Twitterverse came alive after Underwood’s casting indicates how much fans relate to this tale. “It’s not some glib four words - the show is about the sound of music, how it can unlock people, change lives.” It turns out he sang early in his career (before his success in fangs) and connects with the show’s title. Moyer, who grew up in England, has similar memories.“I remember watching with my sister, on cold winter days,” he says. “Whenever it came on TV, my mom and I would pop popcorn, curl up in bed and watch it together,” she recalls. Still, the magic of this particular show is not lost on her. “My school was so small, we didn’t really have drama or things like that,” she says. Not even in high school, back in Checotah, Oklahoma. How do you solve a problem like Maria? “I’ve always been up for a challenge,” says Underwood, who’s never performed in a musical. Then came Cinderella, the 1957 Rodgers & Hammerstein musical written for TV, starring a perky British up-and-comer named Julie Andrews. Mary Martin performed a modified version of Peter Pan live for NBC in 1955, and again a year later. Let’s start at the very beginning Back in the 1950s, live variety shows (like Sid Caesar’s Your Show of Shows) and dramas were standard fare. And they’re hoping it may change the look of television. What they have instead is a TV event the likes of which audiences haven’t seen in 50 years. “We’d never want to remake the movie,” says producer Neil Meron. This is just one of many surprises in store from this hotly anticipated version of the Rodgers & Hammerstein classic, which stars Underwood as effervescent nun-in-training Maria, True Blood’s Stephen Moyer as Captain Von Trapp, plus Broadway’s Audra McDonald (Mother Abbess), Laura Benanti (Elsa), Smash’s Christian Borle (Max), seven adorable kids, and assorted nuns and Nazis. ![]()
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