When I bought my first betamax video machine a copy of the Sound of Music
came with it.
I watched it once I think. Its OK but not really my scene either. Musicals
are a pretty strange form of entertainment.
The other day I listened to an AD version of Mama Mia all over again, and
apart from the music the rest seemed almost pointless to me.
Stories in musicals seem to be either ones of somewhat modified real life
or completely written to use songs already written. Sound of music is the
former. Flower Drum song is one where the original music is there but with
more modern words of course.
I think possibly t the best musicals are those which are kind of fantasies
already, like Cats, Starlight Express or the Rocky Horror show, I mean if
you have to suspend reality you might as well go the whole hog.
I'm waiting for Shawn the Sheep the Musical myself, or how about Pepper
Pig?
Brian

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On Thursday, 23 January 2020 20:10:13 UTC, Brian Gaff (Sofa 2) wrote:
Why does everyone send up The Sound of music by writing alternative
lyrics.
I always recall a song that we used to sing, though the lyrics are long
forgotten, but.
The hills have arrived with a pound of moose meat....
Brian

For a very simple reason - as soon as I read the words "Table Vice" my brain
put them to the tune of Edelweiss.

Curiously, I find there is a disconnect between that song and SoM. I heard
the song numerous times back in the 60s (probably on the radio and TV) but
hadn't seen the film until many years later. And when I did eventually see
it, I was almost surprised that the song was in it.

The film was in many ways better than I had expected, though not really my
taste.