IMovie 11 - VoiceOver not working

I can see my track in my iMovie project, but I cannot hear it.  If I go to audio trimmer I can listen to it there, but when I click done it doesn't work. I do not have the yellow triangle I have read about in other posts.  Please help!

If the problem is isolated to a single Event, then this may work for you.
Shut down iMovie.
Navigate to that event in the Finder. Move the iMovie Cache, iMovie Stabilization, and iMovie Thumbnails folders to the trash. Take care not to delete any of your original clips (which are not in these folders).
Now, restart iMovie and give it time to regenerate the thumbnails. That should fix it.
If that diesn't work, try trashing your preference file, as described here. https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4061

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