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

23 -- and later that day, the Julie Andrews-starring holiday-season perennial "The Sound of Music" also returns. Monday, Dec. 24, sees repeats of the animated specials "Disney's Prep & Landing" and "Shrek the Halls." And Christmas itself is packed with

"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

The Sound of Music. ABC, Sunday, 7 ET/PT. ABC gives another holiday run to one of America's favorite movies, this Rodgers and Hammerstein musical starring Julie Andrews as Maria (a role about to be played in the NBC remake by Carrie Underwood).

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

I love music. I mean I really, truly, madly, deeply LOVE music! From my mother's heartbeat to the present day, it is the soundtrack accompanying my thoughts, actions and adventures as I pass through the days of my life.