Carrie Underwood - - Carrie Underwood To Star In The Sound Of Music Tv Revamp

Andrews played the singing nun-turned-governess of a widowed naval officer's seven children in the Oscar-winning musical back in 1965, and now the American Idol champion is set to take on the role in a revival for U.S. network NBC.

Further casting decisions have not yet been announced.

Executive Robert Greenblatt tells People.com, "Speaking for everyone at Nbc, we couldn't be happier to have the gifted Carrie Underwood take up the mantle of the great Maria von Trapp. She was an iconic woman who will now be played by an iconic artist."

The three-hour live special will air during the holidays next year (13).

The Before He Cheats hitmaker has only acted twice before - she made her film debut as a church leader in 2011's Soul Surfer and portrayed a medical sales representative in one episode of hit U.S. Tv series How I Met Your Mother a year prior (10).