ABC's 'Sound of Music' ratings up 22% over 2011

Social media users delight in one millionth viewing of holiday classic.

CHICAGO (MarketWatch) -- ABC's Sunday-night rebroadcast of holiday movie perennial "The Sound of Music" generated a 22% ratings improvement over last year's telecast among adults 18 to 49 years old, according to preliminary Nielsen data covering the

Xenia Galaviz: “My mom used to make us watch The Sound of Music around the Holidays We also watch The Nightmare Before Christmas and The Grinch!and Home Alone.” Rachael Lee Faught: “White Christmas and Miracle on 34th. Street = classics.

"The Sound of Music" opened on Broadway in 1959, the last musical by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. The movie version, starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, followed six years later and won five Academy Awards. The musical is

This may seem longer than previous telecasts, and, if so, it's not just because you're getting older. It's because this 1965 musical has been restored to its original length, thereby gobbling up all four hours of ABC's Sunday night