New York – On December 3, 2013, Sony Masterworks will release the companion soundtrack to NBC’s live broadcast of The Sound of Music, based on the classic stage musical. The three-hour live production, starring Carrie Underwood as Maria von Trapp, will air December 5, 2013.
The Sound of Music
The cast also includes Audra McDonald (Private Practice), who has won five Tony Awards and two Grammys, as Mother Abbess; Stephen Moyer (True Blood), who will play Capt. Georg von Trapp; Tony Award winner Christian Borle (Smash), who will portray von Trapp family friend Max Detweiler; and Tony winner Laura Benanti (Go On), who will portray Elsa Schrader, the captain’s onetime fiancee.
Music from the NBC television event will include studio recordings for all of the musical numbers that are performed by the cast members in the live broadcast, including Rodgers and Hammerstein favourites The Sound of Music, My Favorite Things, Do-Re-Mi, Sixteen Going on Seventeen and Climb Ev’ry Mountain, among others.
Executive producers for the telecast are Neil Meron and Craig Zadan (Smash, The Academy Awards). Directors are Rob Ashford (Evita) and Beth McCarthy-Miller (30 Rock). David Chase (Cinderella) serves as musical director. The soundtrack is licensed through the NBCUniversal Television Consumer Products Group.
