NBC's 'The Sound of Music Live'

Few people would mistake the Long Island commuter town of Bethpage (elevation: 105 feet) for the Austrian Alps. But on a vast soundstage in an anonymous industrial park about 45 minutes from Manhattan sits a gently sloping, man-made hill that will double for one of that country's scenic peaks on Thursday.

That's when NBC unveils "The Sound of Music Live!," a three-hour televised version of the 1959 Rodgers & Hammerstein musical featuring country music megastar Carrie Underwood in the iconic role of free-spirited nun-turned-governess Maria.

On a recent afternoon the "American Idol" winner, looking mildly rebellious in black skinny jeans and a Rolling Stones T-shirt, wandered through the ersatz landscape, rehearsing the titular opening number as Beth McCarthy-Miller, one of two directors on the show, watched the action on a flat-screen monitor about 50 feet away. They were in the middle of a long day of camera-blocking, the painstaking process by which cast and crew work out the precise choreography of the upcoming live telecast.

Source: latimes

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