The Sound of Music Live! - Script

Scene 12

Scene 12: The Kaltzberg Festival concert hall - Friday, night

(The VON TRAPP FAMILY stands on the stage singing for AUDIENCE. They are surrounded by NAZIs.)

Maria:

Tea a drink with jam and bread…

Children

A drink with jam and bread...

Captain:

A drink with jam and bread

Children:

A drink with jam and bread

Von Trapp Family:

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

With jam (A, B, C / A, B, C)

With jam (Do, Re, Mi / Do, Re, Mi)

Tea with jam and bread

With jam and bread, with jam

with jam and bread

(AUDIENCE applaudes. MAX appears onstage with a guitar)

Max:

Ladies and Gentlemen, Captain Von Trapp.

(AUDIENCE applaudes. MAX gives the guitar to the CAPTAIN who plays. Music in.)

Captain:

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, Edelweiss

Every morning...

Maria and Children:

Small and white clean and bright

Von Trapp Family:

You look happy to meet me

Captain:

Blossom of snow may you bloom and grow

Bloom and grow forever

Von Trapp Family:

Edelweiss, Edelweiss

Bless my homeland forever

(AUDIENCE applauds. MAX enters.)

Max:

Thank you, Ladies and Gentlemen, Thank you. Just a moment. I have an announcement that concerns you. Ladies and Gentleman, the festival concert has reached it’s conclusion. Except of course, we don’t know what that conclusion is going to be! The judges are putting their heads together to arrive at their decision, and while we are waiting, I think there should be an encore!

(AUDIENCE applaudes)

It seems this may be the last opportunity the Von Trapp Family will have to sing together for a long, long time. I have just been informed that the captain is leaving immediately, after the concert for his new command in the naval forces of the third reich.

(AUDIENCE whispers among themselves)

A guard of honor has arrived to escort him directly from the hall to the naval base at Bremerhaven. And now Ladies and Gentlemen, The Family Von Trapp, again.

(AUDIENCE applaudes. Music in.)

Maria:

There's a sad sort of clanging 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

Captain:        Children:

Regretfully they tell us (Cuckoo, cuckoo)

But firmly they compel us (Cuckoo, cuckoo)

To say goodbye . . . (Cuckoo)

Von Trapp Family:

to you

(Once children sing their parts, they exit)

So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, good night

Marta & Kurt:

We hate to go and miss this pretty sight

Remaining Von Trapp Family:

So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, adieu

Friedrich & Liesl:

Adieu, adieu, to yieu and yieu and yieu

Remaining Von Trapp Family:

So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, goodbye

Brigitta & Louisa:

We flit, we float, we fleetly flee, we fly

Remaining Von Trapp Family:

So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, goodbye

Gretl:

The sun has gone to bed and so must I

Goodbye

Maria:

Goodbye

Captain:

Goodbye

Maria & Captain:

Goodbye

(All VON TRAPPs have exited. AUDIENCE applaudes.)

Max:

Ladies and Gentlemen, I have here the decision of our distinguished judges. We will start with the third award… For this honor, the judges have named… The trio of the Sandbouga Sanpegan.

(AUDIENCE applaudes. Fanfare plays. TRIO of women approaches the stage and bows.)

Ah, the second award has been given to… Freulein Schrieger, the first soloist of the choir of St. Agatha’s Church in Mervark.

(AUDIENCE applaudes. Fanfare plays. SCHRIEGER approaches the stage, bows, and blows kisses many times.)

And the first prize… the highest musical honor in the Austmarque… goes too… The Family Von Trapp!

(AUDIENCE applaudes. Fanfare plays.)

The Family Von Trapp!

(Audience applaudes. Fanfare plays. Soldiers look around. Herr ZELLER approaches the stage.)

Zeller:

They’re gone!

(Underscoring -So Long Farewell/Edelweiss- aggressively plays out. All begin to run out of the theater. MAX is taken off by NAZIs. Chaos is among the AUDIENCE.)