No Way to Stop It (ITV's The Sound of Music Live)

From ITV's production of the Sound of Music)

[johne]

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.

[johne]

What a fabulous Elsa -- looks, acts, sounds the part.

[lauraschoenborn]

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!

[leep]

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.

[kennethwayne]

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.

[Gefferr]

It is unfortunate that this production didn't perform the full song; the last verse is fascinating.

[tlyoung]

I only noticed the line, "Just stoop a little" was actually a song lyric. I remember it was in the movie.

[adam]

Quite possibly if Oscar Hammerstein had been around during the filming of the movie, this song would have been left in the film

[TheDramaDorks]

This is the most obscure staging of a musical number in an otherwise decent live adaptation.

[altheascott]

They could be singing this in America right now. Sadly.

[margerywright]

I've sometimes wondered why this song and "How Can Love Survive" were not included in the movie. Did the producers dislike the songs? Was "No Way to Stop It" too political? Or maybe they wanted to hire non singing actors to play Max and Elsa?

[BubblyJubbly]

Yes, people. That is Becky from Coronation Street.

[psychokarloff]

Elsa and Max as a song & dance vaudeville couple? I think not. Pathetically eviscerates the meaning of the song.

[franklesser]

I always liked the Baroness. She would have made a good wife to Captain von Trapp.