You are correct, Mark Walton! Hence, the scene where the nuns screw up the Nazi cars and say that they're sorry, but they have sinned! LOL!

Here are a few differences (some may have been mentioned, some not! and I know that I will come up with more as I go, so I apologize...) :

In the movie, Elsa tells Maria the Captain's in love with her...in the staged version, Brigitta does.

The movie Laendler sucks...dancing real Leandler moves is much more beautiful to watch and it's A LOT more difficult!

Lonely Goatherd...IMHO I believe it's better in the bedroom scene than the "puppet show" that's in there for no reason really...I've done it both ways...(I prefer Lonely Goatherd in the bedroom scene because it makes more sense and, if staged correctly, can really be a bright spot in the show that shows the growth of the relationship between Maria and the children.)

I've also done "Favorite Things" in the bedroom and a throw-away Goatherd scene and "Favorite Things" in the Abbey with Mother Abbess with Goatherd in the bedroom scene. I prefer the latter. (See discussion above)

Obviously, the key to SOM is different in the movie version than the stage version. I have sung both versions...I really like the higher key because it's very carefree, but I also love the lower key because it has a very honest tone to it.

I agree with everyone on the fact that cutting "No Way to Stop It" and "No Way to Stop It" is a travesty! The political climate at the time is what drives them to leave their home!

"Something Good" vs. "Ordinary Couple"...I like "Something Good" better because it's simpler and more honest. (A reprise of "Ordinary Couple" is usually played during the wedding scene, for those who like it, but don't LOVE it!)

I like it in the Bedroom better, because it is a more fun song to sing i think it makes more sense because it so completely random that it would take your mind off of it more than "Favorite Things" because as soon as you finish "Goatherd" you dont snap right back into reality, imho. I also think "Goatherd" is a more memorable song so you want to do it well because its so hummable...

I haven't heard An Ordinary Couple, but I can't imagine anything as good as Something Good... it's the spot in the film that gives me goosebumps.

Mainly because I still have a raging schoolgirl dorky crush on Christopher Plummer in the film... *hides*

Its ok! Me too!

AHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yay, I'm not the only one in the world! Everytime he comes on screen, I literally squeak.. he's just so handsome and charismatic.

*swoons*

Those eyes...

There are so many stories about how he HATED SOM, but God, you couldn't get a better Captain Von Trapp! Such a brilliant actor!

Andrews isnt too crazy about SOM either.

^Heaven forbid it is the role most people know her by! She can complain all she wants, but the truth is, that's what most people associate her with and that's the show that still plays in syndication and made her an icon...

I think mary Poppins and Victor Victoria are just as known in the publics minds.

Poppins even moreso than SOM.

Thank God you didn't state it as a fact and actually said "I think"...LOL!

I was going to have to kick your butt! LOL!

lol. but seriously why would she prefer being known for Maria in a show she considered "filled with sugar".. over vicxtor/victoria (the film not the play) or the wonderful mary poppins, for which she won her Oscar.

I never knew until a couple years back that that was her My cousin pointed it out because she said to me "I can do a really good impression of Julie Andrews from Mary Poppins" and I said "Thats not JULIE!!!" yea then that just made the movie better for me!!!