{"id":686,"date":"2009-11-06T23:21:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-07T03:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clients.chrisvanpatten.com\/theatreaficionado.com\/2009\/11\/from-switzerland-the-family-pratt.html"},"modified":"2009-11-06T23:21:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-07T03:21:00","slug":"from-switzerland-the-family-pratt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=686","title":{"rendered":"From Switzerland: The Family Pratt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Little did Julie Andrews know in 1962 that in three years she would take on the iconic leading role in the blockbuster film adaptation of <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Sound of Music. <\/span>On the telecast of the Emmy-winning special <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0280799\/\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall<\/span><\/a>, with best friend Carol Burnett, the ladies spoofed the smash hit musical, which was still running on Broadway and in London (as well as the national tour with Florence Henderson, and countless international productions). The sketch, called &#8220;From Switzerland: The Pratt Family&#8221; was co-written by Mike Nichols and Ken Welch. The audio track has been included on the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Sound-Music-50th-Anniversary\/dp\/B002PCKRMC\/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&amp;s=music&amp;qid=1257564969&amp;sr=8-4\">50th anniversary edition<\/a> of the original Broadway cast recording. Enjoy:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Q7B7LZkJtFo&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Q7B7LZkJtFo&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Little did Julie Andrews know in 1962 that in three years she would take on the iconic leading role in the blockbuster film adaptation of The Sound of Music. On the telecast of the Emmy-winning special Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall, with best friend Carol Burnett, the ladies spoofed the smash hit musical, which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=686\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">From Switzerland: The Family Pratt<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2257,1710,1813],"class_list":["post-686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-carol-burnett","tag-julie-andrews","tag-the-sound-of-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}