Broadway fans are counting the days until NBC’s live telecast of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music on December 5, but some musical mavens have reacted negatively to the casting of country music star and American Idol champ Carrie Underwood as Maria. Tony winner Laura Benanti, who made her Broadway debut as Maria when she was still a teenager and will play Baroness Elsa Schrader in the TV vers…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:45AM on November 15, 2013