Carrie Underwood and Julie Andrews Speak out on ?The Sound of Music? Remake Controversy

Carrie Underwood takes on Julie Andrews’ iconic role as Maria Von Trapp in ‘The Sound of Music’ in a new production to be presented live on NBC. It has proved controversial as some do not want to see a remake. Find out what both stars have to say about the new version and the reactions it has provoked. The 30-year-old country music superstar and American Idol winner Carrie Underwood will portray Maria von Trapp in the musical based on the true story of the von Trapp family singers in Nazi-occupied Austria during World War II. The story has been immortalized in one of the most beloved films of all time, ‘The Sound of Music’ a screen adaptation of the Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein Broadway musical of the same title. The legendary actress and singer Julie Andrews, now 78, portrayed the character who is a nun hired as the nanny to the seven children of Captain von Trapp — portrayed by Christopher Plummer — who eventually becomes his wife and stepmother to his children who under her tutelage are transformed into a musical group even as they seek to escape the country. Hence the controversy. Some say, just leave it [...]

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