The Hills Are Alive With the Sound of Carrie Underwood

Did you know that broadcast TV channels still aired live versions of plays over primetime? We had no idea, but apparently it’s still a thing—or at least it will be sometime in 2014, when NBC airs their live version of the Rogers and Hammerstein classic The Sound of Music, the exact air date of which will be announced over the holiday season next year. And to star in the iconic role of Maria Von Trapp? None other than country music’s favorite Fraulein, singer/actress Carrie Underwood.

“Having Carrie Underwood as the star brings it to a new generation who will fall in love with it for the first time as many millions of people already have,” explains producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, minds behind NBC’s other primary musical production, Smash. “We couldn’t be happier to have the gifted Carrie Underwood take up the mantle of the great Maria von Trapp…she was an iconic woman who will now be played by an iconic artist,” chips in NBC chairman Robert Greenblatt.

Well, Underwood wouldn’t exactly have been our first choice—not that Julie Andrews exactly looked like an Oktoberfest regular either, but something about Underwood’s Oklahoma roots and All-American Girl looks make it hard to mentally reconcile the idea of her playing a German nun. Still, girl can sing (and probably act—we never saw Solar Surfer, sorry), and she is certainly a well-loved person, so it will be interesting to see how she fares in the live production. Plus, Taylor Swift is probably piiiiiisssed that she wasn’t asked first.

[The Boot]

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