Scene 13 Movie Location: von Trapp home; Actual location: Frohnburg Palace and Studio USA

Franz: Rolf, good evening

Rolf: Good evening Franz. I trust everything is under control?

Franz: Yes, yes

Rolf: Good

Franz: Are there, uh, any developments?

Rolf: Perhaps. Is the captain at home?

Franz: He’s at dinner

Rolf: With the family?

Franz: Yes

Rolf: Please give him this telegram at once

Franz: Certainly. [Franz arrives at the dining room] A telegram for you, sir

Georg: Mmm

Liesl: Franz, who delivered it?

Franz: That young lad Rolf, of course

Liesl: Father, may I be excused?

Georg: Hmm. Children, in the morning, I shall be going to Vienna

Children [in unison, but Friedrich is especially distinct]: Not again, Father!

Gretl: How long will you be gone this time, Father?

Georg: I’m not sure Gretl, not sure

Louisa: To visit Baroness Schraeder again?

Friedrich: Mind your own business!

Georg: As a matter of fact, yes, Louisa

Marta: Why can’t we ever get to see the Baroness?

Kurt: Why would she want to see you?

Georg: It just so happens, Marta that you are going to see the Baroness. I’m bringing her back with me to visit us all.

Children [in unison]: Good

Georg: And Uncle Max

Children [in unison]: Uncle Max!

Rolf: You wait little girl on an empty stage for fate to turn the light on. Your life, little girl is an empty page that men will want to write on.

Liesl: To write on

Rolf: You are sixteen going on seventeen. Baby, it’s time to think. Better beware, be canny and careful. Baby, you’re on the brink. You are sixteen going on seventeen. Fellows will fall in line. Eager young lads and roués and cads will offer you food and wine. Totally unprepared are you to face the world of men. Timid and shy and scared are you of things beyond your ken. You need someone older and wiser telling you what to do. I am seventeen going on eighteen; I’ll take care of you

Liesl: I am sixteen going on seventeen, I know that I’m naïve. Fellows I meet may tell me I’m sweet and willingly I believe. I am sixteen going on seventeen, innocent as a rose. Bachelor dandies, drinkers of brandies what do I know of those? Totally unprepared am I to face a world of men. Timid and shy and scared am I of things beyond my ken. I need someone older and wiser telling me what to do. You are seventeen going on eighteen, I'll depend on you. Whee!

Scene 16 & 17 Movie Location: von Trapp home, Actual Location: Studio USA

Maria: Come in. Frau Schmidt

Frau Schmidt: For your new dresses Fräulein Maria. The captain had these sent out from town

Maria: Oh, how lovely. Oh, I’m sure these will make the prettiest clothes I’ve ever had. Tell me, do you think the captain would get me more material if I asked him?

Frau Schmidt: How many dresses does a governess need?

Maria: No, not for me, for the children. I want to make them some play clothes

Frau Schmidt: The von Trapp children don’t play. They march

Maria: Surely you don’t approve of that?

Frau Schmidt: Ever since the captain lost his poor wife he runs this house as if he were on one of his ships again--whistles, orders. No more music, no more laughing--nothing that reminds him of her. Even the children.

Maria: But it’s so wrong

Frau Schmidt: Oh well, how do you like your room?

Maria: Mmm

Frau Schmidt: There’ll be new drapes at the windows

Maria: New drapes, but these are fine

Frau Schmidt: Nevertheless, new ones have been ordered

Maria: Oh, but I really don’t need them

Frau Schmidt: Good night now

Maria: Frau Schmidt, do you think if I asked the captain tomorrow about the material…

Frau Schmidt: Oh, he’s leaving for Vienna in the morning

Maria: Oh yes, of course. Well, how long will he be gone?

Frau Schmidt: That all depends. The last time he visited the baroness, he stayed for a month.

Maria: Oh

Frau Schmidt: I shouldn’t be saying this, not to you, I mean, I don’t know you that well. But if you ask me, the captain’s thinking very seriously of marrying the woman before the summer’s over

Maria: Oh that would be wonderful. The children will have a mother again

Frau Schmidt: Yes. Well, good night

Maria: Good night.

[Frau Schmidt exits]

Maria: Dear Father, now I know why You sent me here—to help these children prepare themselves for a new mother. And I pray that this will become a happy family in thy sight. God bless the captain. God bless Liesl and Friedrich. God bless Louisa, Brigitta, Marta and little Gretl. And, oh, I forgot the other boy. What’s his name? Well, God bless what’s –his-name. God bless the Reverend Mother and Sister Margaretta and everybody at Nonnberg abbey. And now dear God, about Liesl. Help her know that I’m her friend and help her tell me that she’s been up to.

Liesl: Are you going to tell on me?

Maria: Shh. Help me to be understanding so that I may guide her footsteps. In the name of the Father and of the Son and the Holy Ghost. Amen

Liesl: I was out taking a walk and somebody locked the doors earlier than usual and I didn’t want to wake everybody, so when I saw your window open. You’re not going to tell Father, are you?

Maria: Hmm. How in the world did you climb up here?

Liesl: It’s how we always get into this room to play tricks on the governess. Louisa can make it with a whole jar of spiders in her hand.

Maria: Spiders? Oh, Liesl. Were you out walking all by yourself? You know, if we wash that dress out tonight, nobody would notice it tomorrow. You could put this on. Take your dress in there. Put it to soak in the bathtub. Then, come back here and sit on the bed, and we’ll have a talk.

Liesl: I told you today I didn’t need a governess. Well, maybe I do

Maria: Gretl are you scared? You’re not frightened of a thunder storm are you? You just stay tight here with me. Oh! Where are the others?

Gretl: They’re asleep. They’re not scared

Maria: Oh, no? Look. All right everybody, up here on the bed

Brigitta: Really?

Maria: Well, just this once. Come on. Uh. Now, all we have to do is wait for the boys

Louisa: You won’t see them, boys are brave

Maria: Uh, you boys weren’t scared too were you?

Friedrich: Oh, no. We just wanted to make sure that you weren’t

Maria: That’s very thoughtful of you Friedrich.

Friedrich: It wasn’t my idea. It was Kurt’s

Maria: Kurt! That’s the one I left out! God bless Kurt.

Marta: Why does it do that?

Maria: Well, the lightning says something to the thunder, and the thunder answers back

Marta: The lightning must be nasty

Maria: Not really

Marta: Then why does the thunder get so angry? It makes me want to cry

[scene 17]

Maria: Well, now when anything bothers me and I’m feeling unhappy, I just try to think of nice things

Louisa and Marta [in unison]: What kind of things?

Maria: Well, let me see. Nice things. Daffodils. Green Meadows. Skies full of stars. Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens. Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens. Brown paper packages tied up with strings. These are a few of my favorite things. Cream-colored ponies and crisp apple strudels. Doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles. Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings. These are a few of my favorite things. Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes. Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes. Silver white winters that melt into springs. These are a few of my favorite things. When the dog bites. When the bee stings. When I’m feeling sad. I simply remember my favorite things and then I don’t feel so bad.

Marta: Does it really work?

Maria: Of course it does. You try it. What things do you like?

Marta: Pussy willows!

Louisa: Christmas!

Gretl: Bunny rabbits!

Kurt: Snakes!

Brigitta: Chocolate icing!

Friedrich: No school!

Kurt: Pillow fights!

Liesl: Telegrams!

Louisa: Birthday presents!

Brigitta: Any presents!

Maria: Yes

Gretl: Ladybugs!

Maria: What?

Marta: Cats

Kurt: Rats

Louisa: A good sneeze

Kurt: ah choo

Maria: Gesundheit! See what fun it is? Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens. Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens. Brown paper packages tied up with strings. These are a few of my favorite things. Oh, Cream-colored ponies and crisp apple strudels. Doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles. Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings. These are a few of my favorite things. Oh, together. Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes. Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes. Silver white winters that melt into springs. These are a few of my favorite things. When the dog bi..bi… bites. We. Hello

Georg: Fräulein, did I not tell you that bedtime is to be strictly observed in this house?

Maria: Well, the children were upset by the storm, so I thought that if I…you did sir

Georg: And, do you, or do you not have difficulty remembering such simple instructions?

Maria: Only during thunderstorms, sir

Georg: Liesl?

Liesl: Yes, father?

Georg: I don’t recall seeing you anywhere after dinner

Liesl: Oh really, Well, as a matter of fact…

Georg: Yes?

Liesl: Well I, I was…

Maria: What she would like to say captain is that she and I have been getting better acquainted tonight. But it’s much too late now to go into all of that. Come along children, you heard your father. Go back to bed immediately.

Georg: Fräulein, you have managed to remember that I’m leaving in the morning? Is it also possible you remember that the first rule in this house is discipline? Then I trust the before I return you will have acquired some?

Maria: Captain? Uh, I wonder if before you go I could talk to you about some clothes for the children, for when they play?

Georg: Fräulein Maria

Maria: If I could just have some material

Georg: You are obviously many things not the least of which is repetitious

Maria: But they’re children

Georg: Yes, and I’m their father. Good night.

Maria: Oh. [scene 18] Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes. When the dog bites. When the bee stings. When I’m feeling sad. I simply remember my favorite things and then I don’t feel so bad

Scene 18 Movie Locations: von Trapp home, Salzburg, and Werfen Actual Locations: Salzburg and Werfen