What might have worked as a Branson stage show for the elderly "wholesome" crowd...or a cruise ship entertainment...just doesn't cut it as a network TV broadcast. It's definitely amateur night at NBC, with an American Idol winner belting and yodeling her little old heart out, and some of the clumsiest camera work and ugliest sets we've seen in a long time. But it's good to know that in 1930s Austria, a hotbed of racial tolerance, a black nun could be mother superior. (If this a color-blind cast, why not some black Nazis, too, and some Asian kids in the Von Trapp family? Nobody at NBC seemed to be able to think their way through anything having to do with this unfortunate production.)
Review of The Sound of Music Live!
