Part Seven
Scenes 49 & 50 Movie Location: von Trapp home, Actual location: Studio, USA
Liesl: Mother?
Maria: Hmm?
Liesl: That sounds so nice, I like calling you “Mother”
Maria: I like hearing it
Liesl: You love father very much, I can tell you do
Maria: Very much
Liesl: Mother, what do you do when you think you love someone, I mean, when you stop loving someone or he stops loving you?
Maria: Well, you cry a little, and then you wait for the sun to come out. It always does
Liesl: There are so many things I think I should know but I don’t, I really don’t
Maria: How can you?
[scene 50]
Liesl: Sometimes I feel the world is coming to an end
Maria: And then you feel it’s just beginning?
Liesl: Yes!
Maria: It was that way with me Liesl and for you it will be just as wonderful. I promise
Liesl: Do you really think so?
Maria: When your sixteen going on seventeen, waiting for life to start. Somebody kind who touches your mind will suddenly touch your heart
Liesl: When that happens, after it happens, nothing is quite the same. Somehow I know I’ll jump up and go if ever he calls my name
Maria: Gone are your old ideas of life, the old ideas grow dim. Lo and behold you’re someone’s wife and you belong to him. You may think this kind of adventure never may come to you. Darling, sixteen going on seventeen. Wait a year or two
Liesl: I’ll wait a year
Maria: Just…
Liesl and Maria: …wait a year or two
Georg: Liesl
Maria: What is it?
Georg: Berlin. They’ve offered me a commission in their navy. I’ve been requested to accept immediately and report to their naval base at Bremerhaven tomorrow
Maria: I knew something like this would happen, but I didn’t think it would be so soon
Georg: To refuse them would be fatal for all of us. And joining them would be unthinkable. Get the children all together. Don’t say anything that’s going to make them worry, just get them ready. We’ve got to get out of Austria and this house tonight
Scene 51 Movie Location: von Trapp home, Actual Location: Frohnburg Palace
Max: [Not only?] It strains my back, it breaks my heart when I think of a certain singing group that will not appear at the festival tonight
Georg: By the time you’ve made the announcement, we’ll be over the border
Max: I hope you appreciate the sacrifice I’m making
Georg: You have no choice
Max: I know, that’s why I’m making it
Marta: Why doesn’t father turn the motor on?
Kurt: Because he doesn’t want anyone to hear us
Georg: Shh!
Louisa: What will Frau Schmidt and Franz say when they discover we’re gone?
Maria: They’ll be able to answer truthfully they didn’t know anything about it if anyone asks them
Liesl: Will we be coming back here?
Maria: Someday, Liesl, I do hope someday
Gretl: Are father and Max going to push the car all the way to Switzerland?
Maria: Shh!
Herr Zeller: Something wrong with your car Captain?
Georg: Yes, as a matter of fact, we couldn’t get it started
Herr Zeller: Karl, fix Captain von Trapp’s car so that it will start. Excellent Karl. I’ve not asked you where you and your family are going, nor have you asked me why I’m here
Georg: Well, appearently we’re both suffering from a deplorable lack of curiosity
Herr Zeller: You sent a telegram, which you did not answer. A telegram from Admiral von Schreiber of the Navy of the Third Reich
Georg: I was under the impression, Herr Zeller, that the contents of telegrams in Austria are private! At least the Austria I know
Herr Zeller: I have my orders and they are to take you personally to Bremerhaven tonight where you will accept your commission
Georg: I’m afraid that’s going to be quite impossible. You see, we, uh, uh, all of us, the entire family, will be singing in the festival tonight. As a matter of fact that’s where we are going now. We couldn’t possibly let them down now.
Maria: I just hope we’re not too late
Georg: Yes
Herr Zeller: And you ask me to believe this that you, Captain von Trapp, are singing in a concert?
Max: Believe me, it will be a performance beyond anything even I’ve dreamt of
Georg: Like you, Herr Zeller, I, too, am a man of hidden talents
Max: Yes, um, here, the program
Herr Zeller: It says here only the names of the children
Georg: It says the von Trapp Family Singers. And I am the head of the von Trapp family, am I not?
Herr Zeller: And these, um, travel clothes that you’re all wearing
Maria: Our costumes, naturally. Herr Zeller, this night air is not good for the children’s voices
Herr Zeller: Well, a slight delay in my orders will not be serious. Therefore, you will sing. You will all sing. But only because that’s the way I want it to be. It will demonstrate that nothing in Austria has changed. And when you are finished singing, you, Captain von Trapp, will be taken to Bremerhaven. Now, if you will all get into your car, we will escort the von Trapp Family Singers to the festival
Georg: No escort will be necessary. Herr Zeller
Herr Zeller: Necessary? A pleasure, Captain. After all, we would not want you to get lost in the crowds. Would we?
Georg: No
It was from here that the car was rolled out from in the attempted escape at night.
Scenes 52 & 53 Movie and Actual Location: Felsenreitschule
Maria: Sew, a needle pulling thread
Children: A needle pulling thread
Maria: La, a note to follow sew
Children: A note to follow sew
Maria: Tea, a drink with jam and bread
Children: A drink with jam and bread
Georg: A drink with jam and bread
Children and Maria: A drink with jam and bread. Jam and bread, with jam and bread. Tea with jam and bread. Tea with jam and bread. Jam and bread, jam and bread, tea with jam, jam and bread. Jam and bread, tea with jam, jam and bread
Maria: With jam
Children: A, B, C, A, B, C
Maria and Georg: With jam
Children: Do, re, mi, do, re, mi
Everyone: Tea with jam and bread. With jam and bread, with jam, with jam, and bread
[scene 53]
Georg: My fellow Austrians, I shall not be seeing you again, perhaps for a very long time. I would like to sing for you now a love song. I know you share this love. I pray that you will never let it die. Edelweiss, Edelweiss, every morning you greet me. Small and white, clean and bright. You look happy to meet me. Blossom of snow may you bloom and grow, bloom and grow forever. Edelweiss, Edelweiss, bless my homeland forever. Edelweiss, Edelw…
Maria: Small and white, Cl…
Maria and Georg and Children enter later?: …ean and bright
Everyone: You look happy to meet me
Everyone including audience: Blossom of snow may you bloom and grow, bloom and grow forever. Edelweiss, Edelweiss, bless my homeland forever
Max: I think it will work. I shall miss all of you. I shall miss the money I could have made with you. Thank you ladies and gentlemen, thank you. The festival competition has come to its conclusion, except of course, we do not know yet what that conclusion will be. And while the judges are arriving at their decision, I have been given permission to offer you an encore. This will be the last opportunity the von Trapps will have of singing together for a long, long time. Even now, officials are waiting in this auditorium to escort Captain von Trapp to his new command in the naval forces of the Third Reich. And so, ladies and gentlemen, the family von Trapp again, to bid you farewell. n˿���
Scenes 54 & 55 & beginning of 56 Movie and Actual Location: Felsenreitschule
Maria: There’s a sad sort of clinging from the clock in the hall and the bells in the steeple too. And up in the nursery an absurd little bird is popping out to say “Cuckoo”
Children: Cuckoo, cuckoo
Georg: Regretfully they tell us
Children: Cuckoo
Georg: But firmly they compel us
Children: Cuckoo
Georg: To say good-bye
Everyone: To you. So long, farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, good night
Kurt and Marta: We hate to go and miss this pretty sight
Everyone else: So long, farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, adieu
Liesl and Friedrich: Adieu, adieu, to you and you and you
Everyone else: So long, farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, good-bye
Louisa and Brigitta: We flit, we float, we fleetly flee, we fly
Everyone else: So long, farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, good-bye
Gretl: The sun has gone to bed and so must I, good-bye
Maria: Good-bye
Georg: Good-bye
Georg and Maria: Good-bye
[scene 55]
Max: Ladies and gentlemen, I have here the decision of our distinguished judges. We will start with the award for third prize. For this honor, the judges have named the first soloist of the choir of St. Agatha’s Church in Murbach, Fräulein Schweiger. Second prize to the Toby Reiser Quintet. And the first prize, the highest honor in all Austria, to the von Trapp Family Singers.
[scene 56]
Max: The Family von Trapp
Nazi: They’re gone