acknowledge their love for each other (An Ordinary Couple) and two weeks later they are married at the Abbey. When they return from their honeymoon, they find that the Anschluss has become fact, and that Rolf, Liesl's love, has emerged as a Nazi supporter. Max, meanwhile, is determined (against the Captain's wishes) that the children will sing at a music festival in Salzburg as planned. Unexpectedly, the Nazis press the Captain into military service to the Third Reich; Maria gains time for him by convincing the new authorities that, in fact the entire von Trapp family is scheduled to sing at the festival. The Nazi officials allow the von Trapps to perform, while announcing that a military escort will be standing by to take the Captain to his new post in Berlin. On this, his last night in his beloved Austria, Captain von Trapp leads his wife, lady and fellow countrymen in singing a cherished folk song (Edelweiss). Swiftly, Maria leads the family, including the Captain, into their exit song and one by one, they disappear as Max stalls the escort. Fleeing to the Abbey, they seek refuge in the garden as soldiers, hot on their trail, search for them unsuccessfully. Finally, as the nuns wish them Godspeed, the von Trapps leave Austria for a new life and new hope, as they climb to freedom over Maria's beloved mountain. CHARACTERS • MARIA RAINER - Eager and girlish, her innate sense of fun and love of so many earthly things could never destine her for the religious life. When she does mature and fall in love, she becomes a resolute and courageous young woman. • CAPTAIN GEORG VON TRAPP - His militaristic conduct has been his attempt to assuage his sense of loss and this results in a discipline that he projects onto his children. Maria is the key to his returning to the real world of fatherly affection and thence to facing the future with her at his side. • LIESL - Stars in her eyes, she cannot see the swastika on Rolf 's armband. • HERR ZELLER - The village bully who thinks that a party salute gives him power. • MOTHER ABBESS - Firm but understanding and providing exactly the right guidance and support that Maria needs. • FRAU SCHMIDT, FRANZ - The "old retainers"; he has succumbed to Nazi ideology, but she seems to remain a loyal Austrian. • ROLF GRUBER - One of so many who willingly surrendered themselves to a false ideology. • ELSA SCHRADER - An attractive woman in her late thirties, cosmopolitan, wealthy and sophisticated. She thinks money can purchase everything ... including love. • MAX DETWEILER - A diplomatic snobbish charmer, who excels at manipulating people to get his own way. He is quite happy to fall in with whatever political creed is most expedient to keep his own comfortable lifestyle secure. MUSICAL NUMBERS Act I • Praeludium – Nuns • The Sound of Music – Maria • (How Do You Solve a Problem Like) Maria – Nuns • My Favorite Things – Maria and the Mother Abbess • Do-Re-Mi – Maria and the children • Sixteen Going on Seventeen – Rolf and Liesl • The Lonely Goatherd – Maria and the children • How Can Love Survive – Max and Elsa • The Sound of Music (reprise) – Maria, the Captain and the children • Ländler (instrumental) • So Long, Farewell – The children • Climb Ev'ry Mountain – Mother Abbess Act II • No Way to Stop It – Max, the Captain, and Elsa • An Ordinary Couple – Maria and the Captain • Processional – Nuns • Sixteen Going on Seventeen (reprise) – Maria and Liesl • Do-Re-Mi (reprise) – Maria, the Captain, and the children • Edelweiss – The Captain, Maria, and the children • So Long, Farewell (reprise) – Maria, the Captain, and the children • Finale – Nuns
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