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No Way to Stop It (ITV's The Sound of Music Live)
From ITV's production of the Sound of Music)
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How Can Love Survive (ITV's The Sound of Music Live)
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From ITV's production of The Sound of Music.
I'm listening for the second time to the audio book of Mary Rodgers (daughter of Richard) book entitled "SHY." Super interesting if you like that kind of thing, and beautifully narrated by Christine Baranski.
This song is a masterpiece (except for the forced rhyme of "Mer-ce-DES-es.") However... AT 1:37-`:43 she sings the wrong lyrics: "Two millionaires with a dream are we But we'll keep romance alive." She should have sung "Two millionaires with a dream are we We're keeping romance alive." the line "But we'll keep romance alive" occurs in the lyrics near the end of the song. Also, at 2:32 and following he sings 'You millionaires.... are too busy for simple pleasureS." The lyrics say the singular "pleasure" so that it rhymes with "leisure," so using the plural affects the rhyme. (As a side note, isn't English spelling completely screwy?) Stephen Sondheim, Hammerstein's protégé would be tearing his hair out*, and presumably so would Oscar. Nonetheless, I think this is lovely. That actress was in the tv series "Mr. Selfridge." She certainly seems multi-talented, what with being able to sing and all... *(see his article "Rhyme and its Reasons.")
I’m worried about my school show because of this song 😭. I’m playing max and I can barely sing. Beautiful song though
i’m playing elsa schraeder and IM AN ALTO so when i tell you i am PANICKING
I played max a long time ago. As long as you have the smile & confidence, the voice matters not. Bonne chance!!
@@baronbeauty5437 Thank you. My school play is finished now and I’m happy with my performance. I played him great as I have been told and I think my singing was fine in the end.
@@lexij2208 I’m guessing your school play is over now hope you did well in the end. They wouldn’t have picked you if they didn’t think you would be able to do it. I had the same kind of problem because I’m a bass when I sing but in the end I just sang it a bit deeper and it still sounded fine
That’s ok. We had a Captain who didn’t sing.
Great cast!🥰
Beautifullly done--I LOVE it!!
i love the song
What does it mean when the baroness says "I cannot die like Camille for you?"
it's a reference to Marguerite( to americans known as Camille for some reason..) in " la dame aux camélias" a novel by Alexandre Dumas fils..later made into a play , an opera by Verdi ( La Traviata)and more than a few films..most notably( for americans) the one with Greta Garbo in the title role...in which she died extremely photogenically and romantically 😉
@@nondescript2892 Beautiful response. Now, how are you on Sondheim's line from Not Getting Married Today from "Company" when the woman sings " So why Watch me die Like Eliza On the ice"?
The Captain is just too young for the part
I didn’t know about this version. Excellent cast, singing, and that sophisticated British diction!
Love this
The two excised songs were political hot potatoes, the first a subtle critique of capitalism, the second about the seemingly inevitable slide into fascism and war.
I cannot die like a meal for you!
I cannot die like Camille for you!
I was lucky enough to see the original Broadway production in New York with Mary Martin, Theodore Bikel in 1959 as an 8 year old kid. Will never forget that show, the opening had Maria playing the Sound of Music perched on a hillside on a revolving turntable. It was magic!
I saw it too, with the original cast. Note that, like most Broadway presentations at the time, they didn't use microphones or electrical amplification.
Gorgeous stage setting.
Why didn’t this song make it to the movie? It’s so wonderful.
This and "No Way to Stop It" explain Georg & Elsa's fundamental incompatibility and move the story along.
"How Can Love Survive" does survive in the Wise film, played as a waltz at the ball. Elsa dances with the captain to it after she's sent Maria packing.
@@TheScarecrowozify Not quite the same as when it is sung though. I enjoy the clever lyrics.
Probably because Eleanor Parker and Richard Haydn couldn't sing (Christopher Plummer could, but even he's dubbed). The movie's already long enough, though.
@@hanschristianbrando5588 True enough, but Marni Nixon sang for Peggy Wood, and Bill Lee sang for Christopher Plummer, so someone else could have sung for Eleanor Parker.
Horrible rendition
Julian Ovenden as Captain; Katherine Kelly as Baroness; Alexander Armstrong as Max
🎹 I Love this forgotten song. A terrific Rodgers melody.
Not forgotten by me! :)
If West Side Story can be a film remake so can the Sound of Music. This song from the stage play should be included, not only because it's good, but also because it informs the political realities that surround the story and demonstrates what was pushing the attitudes of Max, the Baroness, and the captain in different directions. It also gives the Baroness a meatier character than she was allowed in the 1965 film.
Inept, especially the cartoon staging with the servants. No bad reflection on the valiant actors, but as the Hammerstein Estate has repeatedly said, ELSA IS A NAZI. The buffoonish attempt to make this a comic number clearly doesn't comprehend the underlying menace of the song. Both of Elsa's songs are a chilling premonition of the German and Austrian entitled class' reaction to the rise of Hitler. And it ain't funny.
2:25: “I’ll call them back!” “You may as well take it now Max” “Go!” Max you needed to clear the space a break up was about to happen!
I also love this UK version of the sound of music. It’s really captivating and all of the performers do a great job. I wish there were more clips from it online.
Best Elsa ever.
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Damn! Why do the British do American Musicals better than we do?! I agree. It was a travesty to cut this and "No Way to Stop It" from the film version. Just guessing, but it could be Eleanor Parker couldn't sing and were too cheap to get Marni Nixon to dub her.
Think I remember reading it was left out due to timing of movie. Stage versions usually have more songs. Marni Nixon was a nun in the film
@@liamdavidson4083 Dang, you are absolutely correct; At my age, I don't like memories (and I ain't talking about that song from "Cats".) Memories are either wrong or at best mistaken. I wish I could go to the library.
@@liamdavidson4083 Too bad, at least they should've kept this one in! The songs written specifically for the movie nowhere near as good as the two the Baroness sang with Max and Captain Von Trapp. Perhaps they wanted to keep the entire emphasis on Julie Andrews - not a terrible decision; Julie is a legend, one of the greatest performers! But the exemption of these two songs (and inclusion of the new, too-shmaltzy others) added to the sugar content of the movie; that much-needed (and balancing) spice was removed.
This and "No Way to Stop It" explain the fundamental incompatibility between Georg and Elsa.
Rodgers and Hammerstein did not approve of this song😮 because it doesn't relate to the original and remakes
This and "No Way to Stop It" are two reasons I always prefer staged performances over the movie, with its Robert [Un]Wise cuts.
It wasn’t Robert Wise who cut them, it was the screenwriter.
100% agree! Too bad they were deleted - two of *Sound of Music*'s best.
It was probably the studio that cut these politically 'hot potato' songs - with the box office and (unofficial) censors in mind.
An instrumental version of How Can Love Survive was played during the party scene in the movie version.
Quite sobering when you realize that the song is about passively collaborating with the Third Reich. Justifying and enabling as so many people did, which allowed the atrocities to come to fruition. Rather puts these characters in a different light. Of course the Captain had to break it off with Elsa. To change this to 'nah, I'd rather go with the younger girl' as they did for the movie considerably waters it down.
Absolutely! Max and Elsa are Nazi collaborators. And that is totally lost in the movie.
Exactly I wish they hadn’t cut the scene. It was so critical!
I mean, it was still there in the movie. I always saw that.
@@felixmarques I never really saw Elsa passively collaborating with the Third Reich. I definitely saw Max doing that, but not Elsa.
@@lauraschoenborn3544Of course if this song had been in the original film it would have completely changed the ending of it because as far as Max helping the Von Trap family escape to Austria, the Captain would have had no reason to trust him whatsoever.
Frau Schraeder is WONDERFUL in this version - very suitably snotty and arrogant!
Best Elsa ever!
Elsa and Max as a song & dance vaudeville couple? I think not. Pathetically eviscerates the meaning of the song.
I think in a way it points up the horror of what they're singing about. Doing a silly vaudeville routine while singing about collaborating with the Nazis as a way of advancing themselves or saving their own hides. Terribly ironic.
How is it usually staged?
@@yanagelfand4337 I actually liked the way the Carrie Underwood Version was staged the best. Because you saw the captain’s anger at the two. And when he was singing with them his voice was practically shaking with Anger. Largely thanks to Stephen Moyer’s acting. But it also showed him trying to walk away from the two while they were singing. And they kept following him to try to get him to see their point.
This is the most obscure staging of a musical number in an otherwise decent live adaptation.
The sudden zoom at 1:56 is particularly odd, especially when their dancing is not focussed on, even when it’s the main focus. So zooming in on Georg is just weird.
@@richardbourton4523 That didn't both me as much as the abrupt termination before the final verse.
@@richardbourton4523 I don’t think we were supposed to see the zoom. I think the camera was supposed to already be in on him before they cut to it. There is no traditional editing. All cuts were live. The way multi-cam sitcoms were.
What a fabulous Elsa -- looks, acts, sounds the part.
I still wish Wise hadn't cut this and "How Can Love Survive?" from the movie. These two songs explain the breakup of the Captain's and Elsa's engagement in the backdrop of political incompatibility.
exactly, max and elsa were made quite bland background characters. the movie was made purely a romance between the captain and maria
Part of the reason they were cut - this one in particular -was because of what was going on in the world; the movie came out right in the middle of the Vietnam War, and a political aspect wasn’t something they wanted to include on too deep a level.
@@TheSoundOfGeorgia Well noted
I recently found this version on DVD.
It wasn't Wise's decision. It was the screenwriter's Ernest Lehman. And the whole point was to draw a contrast between the older, starchy, super-sophisticated Elsa vs. the naive unschooled, country girl Maria. Remember, the Capt says something like: Maria, you brought music back to this house. I had forgotten what it was like to sing . . . or something like that. Now, if super-sophisticated Elsa could beat Maria in music, then the Captain would be a terrible dope for dumping the upscale, trophy woman for the hick novice Maria. It's all a matter of balance. So, per the film version, the gift of music was something Maria had and could bring to the table. Elsa didn't have that; and she was going to ship the kids off to boarding school. Elsa would have split the family apart and she just wanted wealth and power.
I always liked the Baroness. She would have made a good wife to Captain von Trapp.
Yeah but I guess Von Trapp could never share the same views about the Nazis. Also his heart belonged to someone else LOL
This song explains why she wouldn’t be a good wife. This song was needed. You say she would have made a good wife but would she have supported his escape the way Maria did?
Yes, people. That is Becky from Coronation Street.
She was also in Mr Selfridge as well
Is there any way to get the entire thing? I'm outside of the UK, and ordered the DVD, but wondering if there's a way to access it online...Couldn't find anything. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
If you join your local PBS affiliate as a Passport member (I'm a member of WETA based in Washington DC-northern VA-southern MD area, costs about $150/yr) you will have access to it - and other great PBS programs - until sometime in 2023. Of course I'm three years late in my reply to you (lol!), perhaps it's now on a stream for free or inexpensively rented!
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