{"id":1362,"date":"2022-07-10T19:01:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-10T19:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aplombpublishing.com\/podcast\/?p=1362"},"modified":"2022-07-02T19:09:15","modified_gmt":"2022-07-02T19:09:15","slug":"the-sound-of-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aplombpublishing.com\/podcast\/2022\/07\/10\/the-sound-of-music\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sound of Music"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As musicals go,\u00a0<em>The Sound of Music<\/em>\u00a0captivated a generation of moviegoers and lives on as one of the preeminent examples of Hollywood\u2019s ability to entertain audiences with story, music, action, and drama. The 1965 American musical was produced and directed by Robert Wise.\u00a0\u00a0Starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, the film single-handedly saved Twentieth Century Fox from the brink of bankruptcy following the debacle of\u00a0<em>Cleopatra\u00a0<\/em>and became one of the most successful musicals of the 1960s. While the film captivated audiences, its path to the big screen was paved with drama and the casting calls went wide and far in looking for the right collection of actors to take up the key roles.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s interesting to imagine what the film might have been like had the film come together differently \u2013 with without Andrews and Plummer in the iconic roles.  For more on the story, check out our Vella series, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Not-Playing-Theater-Near-You\/dp\/B09758QGPL\/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=Not+Playing+at+a+Theater+Near+You&amp;qid=1632781389&amp;s=falkor&amp;sr=1-1\"><strong><em>Not Playing at a Theater Near You<\/em><\/strong><\/a> which includes a chapter on <em>The Sound of Music<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"318\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aplombpublishing.com\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/soundofmusic.jpg?resize=318%2C320&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Sound of Music\" class=\"wp-image-1360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aplombpublishing.com\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/soundofmusic.jpg?w=318&amp;ssl=1 318w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aplombpublishing.com\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/soundofmusic.jpg?resize=298%2C300&amp;ssl=1 298w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aplombpublishing.com\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/soundofmusic.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px\" \/><figcaption>Salzburg Austria and The Sound of Music Tour<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/aplombpublishing.com\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Sound-of-Music.m4a\"><\/audio><figcaption>The Movie Files on The Sound of Music.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Not-Playing-Theater-Near-You\/dp\/B09758QGPL\/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=Not+Playing+at+a+Theater+Near+You&amp;qid=1632781389&amp;s=falkor&amp;sr=1-1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"563\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aplombpublishing.com\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/NPAATNY.jpg?resize=563%2C900&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aplombpublishing.com\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/NPAATNY.jpg?w=563&amp;ssl=1 563w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aplombpublishing.com\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/NPAATNY.jpg?resize=188%2C300&amp;ssl=1 188w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 563px) 100vw, 563px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As musicals go,\u00a0The Sound of Music\u00a0captivated a generation of moviegoers and lives on as one of the preeminent examples of Hollywood\u2019s ability to entertain audiences with story, music, action, and drama. The 1965 American musical was produced and directed by Robert Wise.\u00a0\u00a0Starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, the film single-handedly saved Twentieth Century Fox from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"podcast_url":"","podcast_explicit":"no","podcast_captioned":false,"podcast_duration":"","podcast_filesize":0,"podcast_mime":"","enclosure":"https:\/\/aplombpublishing.com\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Sound-of-Music.m4a\n13644835\naudio\/mpeg\n","podcast_season_number":"","podcast_episode_number":"","podcast_episode_type":"none","podcast_transcript":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"podcasting_podcasts":[],"class_list":["post-1362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-files"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aplombpublishing.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aplombpublishing.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aplombpublishing.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aplombpublishing.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aplombpublishing.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aplombpublishing.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1364,"href":"https:\/\/aplombpublishing.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions\/1364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aplombpublishing.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aplombpublishing.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aplombpublishing.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1362"},{"taxonomy":"podcasting_podcasts","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aplombpublishing.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/podcasting_podcasts?post=1362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}