The Sound of Music - The Nun that Got Away 

Jc Rocks He was a military man. He liked order.

Authoritarian, harshly disciplinary, military style childrearing was unfortunately wide spread at that time and is one more reason fascism took hold of Europe.

I knew an actual family who did that. They were a Black family and they had more than 5 kids. It was so funny. You gotta do what you got to do to keep up with them. I am starting to wonder if they were a military family now.

But the did not march though.

I dropped out of uni (also a lot of anxiety and lack of self confidence) and have been thinking about taking acting classes so I laughed when he said that

cola kidd People are always making fun of "The Sound of Music," yet it remains one of the best loved musicals of all times. I think a lot of people are closet fans. That's ok. As long as they're still happy singing the songs while no one's looking and smile!

ruthiehenshallfan99 oh no, Marni?? I didn't know she passed

@@normahebisen1060 Heather Menzies has also passed away.

The "real deal" would be Mary Martin and Theodore Bikel as they were the original Maria and Captain when the play opened on Broadway in the late 1950s.

There were 7 original children. The Captain's kids with his first wife. That's who the kids in the movie are based on. The other three you speak of are Maria and the Captain's own children. They were born between the wedding and their flight from Austria, which was a length of 12 years, and thus played no part in the major events depicted in the film. Since the musical greatly condenses the timeline (i.e., completely eliminating the dozen years), there's no need to mention the other three kids, who were small children when they left Austria, anyway. Actually, the youngest was born in America.

i didnt even care i was a kid and thought she was hot

I am thirteen going on thirty...

Grace Batterson Of course I'll read this! I actually do a short weekly segment about shows I'm listening to (if you'd like to listen along). It's called "Show of the Week." This link (should) take you right to it! ru-vid.com/group/PLkUsqr1FIaGH2-gQ9W7d9GLowzWjLh2HG

+Mike Steele …yes?

Musical Theatre Mash i love your videos so much! You're interesting and funny. Would you consider doing something with 25th annual Putnam county spelling bee? (I played logainne in a production of it and have loved it ever since) keep making videos! SONDHIME FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!

Don't worry. He has. ;)

Hammerstein famously asked, "Who the hell cares about Brigitta anyway?" To cut costs when the show was expanded for Broadway, the role was assigned to a goat marionette, as shown here.

But he didn't address the show at all (other than the story about the extra-multi-children community theater production). He only talked about the movie, which is quite different, and far less interesting. It would have been interesting to compare the two, noting what the movie had changed, left out, and added in, and what so many stage versions have since incorporated from the movie. As a child, when I was taken to the movie (in its original run, because I'm old), I was very unhappy that they'd cut my two favorite songs--the ones that kept the whole thing from turning into an unmitigated saccharine and sugar fest. I've since come to appreciate the rest of the songs, and have a much higher tolerance for sweet, emotional content than my eight or nine year-old self possessed. But I still think the show needs those injections of a bit of wryness and even irony, and they help tell a more nuanced and fuller story. Those songs and other differences also have the benefit of making more human, full characters of the Baroness, Mother Abbess, Max, and even the Captain. Having finally seen a beautiful production of the true, original script and score, with all the songs, and gorgeous extended nuns' music, without the songs added for the movie, and without the horrible change they made in the movie, to the scene when Rolf finds the family hiding in the abbey, I now know that that version is, indeed, the best of any of them. So much more rewarding, emotionally satisfying, and fun. Another interesting thing to discuss would be a comparison between events and characters as portrayed in the original show, as portrayed in the movie, and as they were in real life. For instance, from real life, the family boarding a train and riding that to freedom, rather than climbing through the Alps, or Maria's actual age when she went to care for the children (considerably older than the portrayals of Julie Andrews, Mary Martin, or probably the vast majority of women who've played that role).

Yet that "non-interesting" film was a phenomenal commercial success, and people didn't only go to see it once, they went to see it multiple times. Pretty good for a "non-interesting" film.

dmnemaine I don't see why you put "non-interesting" in quotes, since I decidedly did not call the movie that at all, and don't consider it that. I did say that the original poster's discussion of the movie was less interesting than one incorporating more information about the stage show would have been. You're quite right that the movie version was and is hugely successful and popular, and I do think it's well made in many ways, even while I strongly dislike some of the choices they made with it.

***** Of course you are right, and I still love those songs. I also hold the (judging by my experience) fairly unpopular opinion that "An Ordinary Couple" is a better song for its moment than Richard Rodgers' replacement, "Something Good," with its rather inane lyrics. The national tour that I believe is still traveling around the country improved it somewhat, by tweaking those lyrics. They also gave "My Favorite Things" back to Maria and the Abbess, as it should be, and returned "The Lonely Goatherd" to its proper place in the show.

***** I do love Lawrence Guittard's voice, though I can't see why that song would be just a solo. One of the great thing about the complete production of SOM that Lyric Stage in N. Texas did in 2013 was the inclusion of all the nuns' music, which was truly heavenly. I think it's only very rarely that it's all included, unfortunately.

he made that up...

+steveb1164 Yes you are right, thank you for your correction! But we do both agree on that she was not a nun. :)

But he likes it?

oh you already mentioned sister act in this