VIDEO: Audra McDonald & Cast of NBC's SOUND OF MUSIC Share Family Traditions

ETOnline has shared an exclusive new promo for NBC's THE SOUND OF MUSIC, airing live on December 5th. In the clip, Carrie Underwood and other members of the cast share their own family Sound of Music traditions.

"I remember my mom setting up some TV stands so we could have dinner in front of the television, and sitting down as a family and watching it," shares five-time Tony Award-winner Audra McDonald who portrays Mother Abbess in the upcoming special. Check out more Sound of Music memories from Laura Benanti, Christian Borle & more below!

NBC will air a three-hour live production of THE SOUND OF MUSIC, starring six-time Grammy Award winner Carrie Underwood as Maria von Trapp.

The cast features Audra McDonald ("Private Practice"), who has won five Tony Awards and two Grammys, as Mother Abbess; Stephen Moyer ("True Blood"), who will play Capt. Georg von Trapp; Tony Award winner Christian Borle ("Smash"), who will portray von Trapp family friend Max Detweiler; and Tony winner Laura Benanti ("Go On"), who will portray Elsa Schrader, the captain's one-time fiancee.

"The Sound of Music," music from the NBC Television event, will include studio recordings for all of the musical numbers that are performed by the cast members in the live broadcast, including Rodgers and Hammerstein favorites "The Sound of Music," "My Favorite Things," "Do-Re-Mi," "Sixteen Going on Seventeen" and "Climb Ev'ry Mountain," among others.

Executive producers for the telecast are Neil Meron and Craig Zadan ("Smash," "The Academy Awards"). Directors are Rob Ashford ("Evita") and Beth McCarthy-Miller ("30 Rock"). David Chase ("Cinderella") serves as musical director.The soundtrack is licensed through the NBCUniversal Television Consumer Products Group.

"The Sound of Music," set in the 1930s before and during "Anschluss" when the Nazi's annexed Austria, is based on the romantic true story of Maria von Trapp, an aspiring nun who leaves the abbey to become a governess for the widower Capt. von Trapp's seven children. She soon finds herself falling in love with her employer and questioning her religious calling. It premiered on Broadway in 1959 where it broke box-office records and won the Tony Award forBest Musical. The 1965 film adaptation won the Oscar for Best Picture.