"How Can Love Survive" does survive in the Wise film, played as a waltz at the ball. Elsa dances with the captain to it after she's sent Maria packing.
Probably because Eleanor Parker and Richard Haydn couldn't sing (Christopher Plummer could, but even he's dubbed). The movie's already long enough, though.
@@hanschristianbrando5588 True enough, but Marni Nixon sang for Peggy Wood, and Bill Lee sang for Christopher Plummer, so someone else could have sung for Eleanor Parker.
I was lucky enough to see the original Broadway production in New York with Mary Martin, Theodore Bikel in 1959 as an 8 year old kid. Will never forget that show, the opening had Maria playing the Sound of Music perched on a hillside on a revolving turntable. It was magic!
I saw it too, with the original cast. Note that, like most Broadway presentations at the time, they didn't use microphones or electrical amplification.
I also love this UK version of the sound of music. It’s really captivating and all of the performers do a great job. I wish there were more clips from it online.
The two excised songs were political hot potatoes, the first a subtle critique of capitalism, the second about the seemingly inevitable slide into fascism and war.
Is there any way to get the entire thing? I'm outside of the UK, and ordered the DVD, but wondering if there's a way to access it online...Couldn't find anything. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
If you join your local PBS affiliate as a Passport member (I'm a member of WETA based in Washington DC-northern VA-southern MD area, costs about $150/yr) you will have access to it - and other great PBS programs - until sometime in 2023. Of course I'm three years late in my reply to you (lol!), perhaps it's now on a stream for free or inexpensively rented!
@@baronbeauty5437 Thank you. My school play is finished now and I’m happy with my performance. I played him great as I have been told and I think my singing was fine in the end.
@@lexij2208 I’m guessing your school play is over now hope you did well in the end. They wouldn’t have picked you if they didn’t think you would be able to do it. I had the same kind of problem because I’m a bass when I sing but in the end I just sang it a bit deeper and it still sounded fine
it's a reference to Marguerite( to americans known as Camille for some reason..) in " la dame aux camélias" a novel by Alexandre Dumas fils..later made into a play , an opera by Verdi ( La Traviata)and more than a few films..most notably( for americans) the one with Greta Garbo in the title role...in which she died extremely photogenically and romantically 😉
Damn! Why do the British do American Musicals better than we do?! I agree. It was a travesty to cut this and "No Way to Stop It" from the film version. Just guessing, but it could be Eleanor Parker couldn't sing and were too cheap to get Marni Nixon to dub her.
@@liamdavidson4083 Dang, you are absolutely correct; At my age, I don't like memories (and I ain't talking about that song from "Cats".) Memories are either wrong or at best mistaken. I wish I could go to the library.
@@liamdavidson4083 Too bad, at least they should've kept this one in! The songs written specifically for the movie nowhere near as good as the two the Baroness sang with Max and Captain Von Trapp. Perhaps they wanted to keep the entire emphasis on Julie Andrews - not a terrible decision; Julie is a legend, one of the greatest performers! But the exemption of these two songs (and inclusion of the new, too-shmaltzy others) added to the sugar content of the movie; that much-needed (and balancing) spice was removed.
