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IgMLDREN: A needle pulling thread
Tea, iARIA: La, a note to follow sew
Aim A drink with jam and bread A note to follow sew
LDREN:
That will bring us back to doe Tea, a drink with jaj bread
IN: Jam and bread
A,Wtl^She
nind ^ir°SSeS tn fr°nt
taps them on °f Ckildren
head md tiroes be-
as if playiJmxylODhnnf>
MARIA1 s)
;mi
That willJ^Pi'us back to doe
"FFa»-Kim^
a"-K «So»-LOUlSA, <<La>>-FRimICT^^
ALL: (Chili rowdJKftnd MARIA)
LIES EL.)
bring us back to
CHILDREN:
(MARIA goe^^^&the scale until her final "Do" is
^llon effect as MARIA tures to them)
^re mi fa so la ti do, d practically 6j
so fa mi re re do
MARIA: ^^Do t{ la ^
Do^^mj mj[ so so ALL: ($(t&ng with a happy
Re fa^Lla ti ti Do.
Do mi fr^kai so so (Blackout)
Re fa fa^^ti MARIA: (Sings)
Do mi mi rni^^ so When you ACT I
Re fa fa la tf
know the
Do mi mi mi so
notes to "S^^lKii
Re fa fa la ti
sing Outside the villa. A shallow scene showing the villa
Do mi mi mi
You can and wall that runs around it. D.L.C. is a stone bench.
Re fa fa la ^i
sing most After a moment LIESL enters D.R., turns and waves to
. . . anyth
MARIA: someone offstage.
When youjBbw the not
You canJKg most anytli p sing LIESL: Good night, Rolf.
ALL: (Led by MARlMll march around « ROLF: (Walking on with his bicycle) Liesl!
to sofa where MARlMts and children gro room and back L I E S L : ( G o i n g t o h i m ) Ye s ? . \
iaround her) ROLF: You don't have to say good night this early just
Doydeer, a female deer, because your father's home-
Rnrvadrop of golden sun»
name I call myself,
LIESL: How did you know my father was home?
ROLF: Oh, 1 have a way of knowing things.
^ it, a long, long way to run. LIESL: You're wonderful.
>ew, a needle pulling thread,
ROLF: (Resting the bicycle on its stand) Oh, no, I'm not
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LIESL: (Crosses D.L.) Oh, yes, you are. I mean—how did Your life, little girl, is an empty
you know two days ago that you would be here at just That men will want to write on.
this time tonight with a telegram for Franz? To write on.
ROLF: (Following her) Every year on this date he always
You are sixteen going on sevj^peen,
gets a birthday telegram from his sister.
Baby, it's time to think.
LIESL: You see-you are wonderful. Better beware,
ROLF: Can I come again tomorrow night? Be canny and careful
LIESL: (Sitting on the bench) Rolf, you can't be sure you're
Baby, you're on the brii
going to have a telegram to deliver here tomorrow night.
ROLF: (Sitting beside her) I could come here by mistake— ou are sixteen goinjgKi seventeen,
with a telegram for Colonel Schneider. He's here from Lei lows will fall iniSline.
Berlin. He's staying with the Gauleiter but l-('Suddenly [ger youn g lads
concerned.) No one's supposed to know he's here. Don't roues and c
you tell your father. Loffer you fc^jK and wine
LIESL: Why not? < ToMly unpregjgjkd are you
ROLF: Well, your father's pretty Austrian. To ^H.e a woraHf of men.
LIESL: We're all Austrian. TimioLnd sw and scared are you
ROLF: Some people think we ought to be German. They're Of thins ymond your ken.
pretty mad at those who don't think so. They're getting You neVyKmeone older and wiser
ready to-well, let's hope your father doesn't get into
Telling^E what to do.
any trouble. (He goes to his bicycle.) (LIESL sits on th&f^nch.)
LIESL: (Rising) Don't worry about father. He was decorated I am §W^m|n SoinS on eighteen,
for bravery.
(ROLF sits anmuts^^arm around her shoulder.)
ROLF: I know. I don't worry about him. The only one I worry I'llaBke caremyou.
about is his daughter. At the el )f the dance ROLF gets on
(LIESL dt
LIESL: (Above bench) Me? Why? Jiurries to him.)
his bicycle asj Jto leave; Lit
(ROLF gestures to her to stand on the bench. She does LIESL: (Sim
and he studies her.) 4 I am sixteen goingIPft^eventeen,
ROLF: How old are you, Liesl? I know that I'm naiv
,: Sixteen-What's wrong with that? Fellows I meet
May tell me I'm sweet
e girl, on an empty stage And willingly I'll believe!
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 MARIA: (Rising) Rolf, I am glad to meet you finally. "^
r,s. Holding LIESL's hand.)
A bell is no bell till you ring it, ROLF: (C. Coldly) I have a telegram for Captain von
A song is no song till you sing^ Trapp. (He holds it out. FRANZ enters on the balcony
and starts downstairs.)
And love in your heart
Wasn't put thej^to stay- MARIA: You stay herewith Liesl. I'll take it to him. (She
,ove isn't love starts R., reaching for the telegram. He snatches it
Till you gi^BR away. away. She stops at his R.)
ROLF: I'm under orders to make sure the Captain gets it.
en you're sixteen, goj^von seventeen, MARIA: I think you can trust me to give it to him.
ing for life to start ROLF: I have my orders.
Sd^febody kind LIESL: Silly, they're married. (ROLF sees FRANZ.)
Who^Biiches your mj ROLF: Oh, Franz'. This telegram is to be delivered into
Will^Wdenly toucoKur heart! thehands of Captain von Trapp.
LIESL: Whenmk happen^Rfter it happens, FRANZ: (Saluting) Heil!
Nothinl^cfuiteme same. ROLF: Heil! (ROLF returns the salute and gives him the
SomehowHbu
telegram in front of MARIA's face. FRANZ exits
You'll jui nd go
upstairs.)
If ever he your name'. LIESL: (Shocked) Rolf!
MARIA: Gone are yj Id ideas of life, MARIA: Even Franz.
he old ideas grow dim— ROLF: Yes, even Franz. Even me! Even everybody in
Lo and ou're someone's wife
Nonnberg except the great Captain von Trapp. If he
you belong to him! knows what's good for him, he'll come over to the right
You think tHmkind of adventure side.
(Puts arm arou 1ESL.) LIESL: Rolf, don't talk like that.
Ne may come to (FRANZ re-enters balcony, comes down steps.)
Daflng Sixteen-goin^^Seventeen, ROLF: And if he doesn't, he'd better get out of the country
t—a year—or two. —there are things that happen today to a man like that.
LIESL: 1 wait a year He'd better get out quick. (LIESL runs to MARIA.) Cry
BOTH:(Thq Embrace) all you want, but just remember what I said before it's
or two! : too late. (To MARIA.) And you remember too. (He exits
(FRAt CHMIDT enters U.C.) mi/i P:\#C, followed by FRANZ.)
FRAUS IDT: There's a telegram for th< ain. .
(R has followed FRAU SCHMIDT 01 exits
P^SlThowcou 'ather that way?
D.R.) ItilRIA: Liesl-m aybi 't threatening your father—
LIESlBfcolf! Rolf, I'd like you to meet my mothe new
maybe he wj ung
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