Carrie Underwood will play Maria in NBC Sound of Music

Hmm...well this is interesting. A while back, NBC announced that they'd be doing a TV broadcast of The Sound of Music, and initially I thought they'd cast Laura Osnes, since she did it at Carnegie Hall and she's pretty hot on the Broadway scene right now, but they clearly went with someone more...famous. I am really interested to see how this goes for Ms. Underwood...I guess we'll find out. At least they're doing Rodgers and Hammerstein on TV.

NBC will broadcast live performance of "The Sound of Music"

Hello, my gorgeous fans! NBC is going back to their roots and will broadcast a live performance of The Sound of Music, done much like the legendary broadcast of Cinderella with Julie Andrews back in the day. No casting details yet, but I have a feeling that Laura Osnes may be reprising the role of Maria. Osnes did a concert version of the classic show at Carnegie Hall a few months back and she is starring in a new stage version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Cinderella on Broadway, also starring Victoria Clark as the Fairy Godmother. I might be wrong about this and they could possibly go for a bigger star (I can just see Anne Hathaway practicing "I Have Confidence" in her bedroom), but I am putting my money on Laura Osnes as Maria...and me as Mother Abbess. If you don't know who Laura Osnes is, look bellow.