As a child, Canadian comedian Gavin Crawford says he adored The Sound Of Music and wanted to be Julie Andrews, who starred as Fraulein Maria in the iconic film.
It�s hard to imagine better credentials for the host of How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?, which debuts Sunday on CBC-TV.
The seven-week TV series will feature 48 hopefuls competing for the lead role of Maria von Trapp in an upcoming Toronto stage production of The Sound Of Music, produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber, David Ian and David Mirvish, and set for debut at the Princess of Wales Theatre this fall.
The CBC show is based on a British series of the same name that Webber co-created.
�It is a lot of pressure because it was a real person, first of all, so you want to do justice to the real person and the heroine that she was,� said 24-year-old Toronto actress Jennifer Walls, one of 13 Maria hopefuls at a recent singalong to promote the show.
Viewers will ultimately get to decide the winner of the Maria role.
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