page_title: The Sound of Music Live!
section_title: Cast and crew
hierarchical_section_title: The Sound of Music Live! / Cast and crew
caption_attribution_description: English: Carrie Underwood Live in Times Square in May 2012.
context_page_description: The Sound of Music Live! is a television special that was originally broadcast by NBC on December 5, 2013. Produced by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, the special was an adaptation of Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1959 Broadway musical The Sound of Music. The television special starred country singer and American Idol winner Carrie Underwood as Maria von Trapp, and was performed and televised live from Grumman Studios in Bethpage, New York.
  Spearheaded by NBC chairman Bob Greenblatt, the network positioned the special as being a live television "event". In preparing for the broadcast, Meron and Zadan emphasized the logistical challenges that they would face due to the live aspects of the special, and the fact that The Sound of Music Live! was an adaptation based on the musical itself and not the 1965 film version. Meron felt that if the telecast were successful, the concept could become "another kind of entertainment that can exist on TV." By her request, Underwood's casting as Maria was personally endorsed by Julie Andrews, who starred in the 1965 film.
context_section_description: Main
  Carrie Underwood as Maria von Trapp (née Rainer)
  Stephen Moyer as Captain Georg von Trapp
  Laura Benanti as Elsa Schräder / Fräulein Schweiger
  Christian Borle as Max Detweiler
  Audra McDonald as Mother Abbess
  Supporting
  Ariane Rinehart as Liesl von Trapp
  Michael Campayno as Rolf
  Sophia Anne Caruso as Brigitta von Trapp
  Peyton Ella as Gretl von Trapp
  Michael Nigro as Friedrich von Trapp
  Grace Rundhaug as Marta von Trapp
  Ella Watts-Gorman as Louisa von Trapp
  Joe West as Kurt von Trapp
  Jessica Molaskey as Sister Berthe
  Christiane Noll as Sister Margaretta
  Elena Shaddow as Sister Sophia
  Kristine Nielsen as Frau Schmidt
  C.J. Wilson as Herr Zeller
  Sean Cullen as Franz
  John Bolger as Admiral von Scheiber
  Michael Park as Baron Elberfeld
  Benanti had previously portrayed Maria von Trapp on Broadway in 1998. Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, who had previously worked with Borle on the NBC musical drama television series Smash, served as executive producers. Other credits include Rob Ashford and Beth McCarthy-Miller as directors, Ashford also was the choreographer, Priscilla Taussig served as producer, David Chase as music director and Derek McLane as production designer. Catherine Zuber was costume designer and Bernie Telsey was the casting director. The production is taken from the book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse and is based on the memoir, The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria von Trapp.
caption: Carrie Underwood in 2012
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