The Hills Are Alive

If you ever secretly wanted to be Fraulein Maria or Captain Von Trapp, there's a place in London you should know about. It's a theater that lets the audience sing or yodel along to one of the world's favorite musicals.

Turning a 35-year-old movie classic into a karaoke music craze was about as simple as putting subtitles up on the screen, reports CBS News Correspondent Richard Roth. But what has turned The Sound of Music into a box-office hit in London's West End is the audience that has been turning up for the sing-along screenings.

"We had six rugby players dressed up as girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes," says David Johnson, producer of Sing-Along-Sound-of-Music. "We've had brown paper packages tied up with string. We've had whole ranges of Alps."

They've had uniformed Nazis and legions of nuns, with prizes at intermission for inventive interpretation of the movie's characters. There was once even a guy dressed in yellow who called himself "Ray, a drop of golden sun."

It's still as sugary as a Viennese strudel, and it's still loved by the audience.

"This is our shared culture at 35. This is what we grew up with," said one sing-along fan.

This is culture?

"It is," insisted the man. "The music is great."

It's so successful, the revival is going on the road to the United States, where talking along with the actors on the big screen isn't such a new thing. The Rocky Horror Picture Show, anybody?