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Sony Masterworks proudly releases the companion soundtrack to NBC’s live broadcast of “The Sound of Music,” according to the classic stage musical. The three-hour live production, starring six-time Grammy Award winner Carrie Underwood as Maria von Trapp, will air December 5.
The cast also includes Audra McDonald (“Private Practice”), who has won five Tony Awards and two Grammys, as Mother Abbess; Stephen Moyer (“True Blood”), who will play Capt. Georg von Trapp; Tony Award winner Christian Borle (“Smash”), who will portray von Trapp circle of relatives friend Max Detweiler; and Tony winner Laura Benanti (“Go On”), who will portray Elsa Schrader, the captain s onetime fiancee.

“The Sound of Music” Music From the NBC Tv Event features studio recordings of all of the musical numbers performed within the live broadcast, including Rodgers and Hammerstein favorites “The Sound of Music,” “My Favorite Things,” ‘Do-Re-Mi,” “Sixteen Going on Seventeen” and “Climb Ev’ry Mountain,” among others.

“The Sound of Music,” set within the 1930’s before and all the way through “Anschluss” when the Nazi’s annexed Austria, is according to the romantic true story of Maria von Trapp, an aspiring nun who leaves the abbey to transform a governess for the widower Capt. von Trapp’s seven children. She soon finds herself falling in love together with her employer and questioning her religious calling. It premiered on Broadway in 1959 where it broke box-place of business records and won the Tony Award for absolute best musical. The 1965 film adaptation won the Oscar for absolute best picture.