If you like dirndl skirts, nuns and yodeling you probably grew up watching The Sound of Music on TV during that weird midpoint between Christmas and New Year's.
It's one of those retro holiday traditions whose origins are lost in the mists of time, but which never fails to produce a warm, festive glow.
Based on a true story, the original Rodgers and Hammerstein stage musical focused on a would-be nun named Maria who falls in love with the Von Trapp children after being hired as their governess, eventually marries their widowed father and later helps to lead the family out of Nazi-occupied Austria. In the 1965 film version airing tonight, Julie Andrews plays Maria and Canadian born Christopher Plummer is Captain Von Trapp.
Andrew Lloyd Webber recently gave the musical new life, launching a search for a new Maria via a reality TV show and casting the winner in a stage version first in London and then in Toronto. Cashing in on the current interest, some movie theaters have sing-along screenings.
If there are no public screenings in your neighborhood, watching the movie on the small screen is the next-best thing. Dust off your nun's habit and give your vocal cords a workout with such classics as My Favorite Things, Climb Every Mountain and, of course, The Sound of Music.
When the post-Christmas depressions have you feeling sad, there's nothing like singing about kittens, mittens and cream-colored ponies.
It's one of those retro holiday traditions whose origins are lost in the mists of time, but which never fails to produce a warm, festive glow.
Based on a true story, the original Rodgers and Hammerstein stage musical focused on a would-be nun named Maria who falls in love with the Von Trapp children after being hired as their governess, eventually marries their widowed father and later helps to lead the family out of Nazi-occupied Austria. In the 1965 film version airing tonight, Julie Andrews plays Maria and Canadian born Christopher Plummer is Captain Von Trapp.
Andrew Lloyd Webber recently gave the musical new life, launching a search for a new Maria via a reality TV show and casting the winner in a stage version first in London and then in Toronto. Cashing in on the current interest, some movie theaters have sing-along screenings.
If there are no public screenings in your neighborhood, watching the movie on the small screen is the next-best thing. Dust off your nun's habit and give your vocal cords a workout with such classics as My Favorite Things, Climb Every Mountain and, of course, The Sound of Music.
When the post-Christmas depressions have you feeling sad, there's nothing like singing about kittens, mittens and cream-colored ponies.
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