Original Broadway Cast of The Sound of Music
Mary Martin
Patricia Neway, Muriel O’Malley, Elizabeth Howell & Karen Shepard
Mary Martin & Patricia Neway
Original Broadway Cast of The Sound of Music & Mary Susan Locke & Kathy Dunn & Lauri Peters & Joseph Stewart & Evanna Lien & William Snowden & Marilyn Rogers & Mary Martin
Brian Davies & Lauri Peters
Original Broadway Cast of The Sound of Music & Mary Susan Locke & Kathy Dunn & Lauri Peters & Joseph Stewart & Evanna Lien & William Snowden & Marilyn Rogers & Mary Martin
Marion Marlowe & Kurt Kaznar
Original Broadway Cast of The Sound of Music & Lauri Peters & Kathy Dunn & Marilyn Rogers & William Snowden & Evanna Lien & Joseph Stewart & Theodore Bikel & Mary Martin
Original Broadway Cast of The Sound of Music
Original Broadway Cast of The Sound of Music & Marilyn Rogers & William Snowden & Evanna Lien & Joseph Stewart & Lauri Peters & Kathy Dunn & Mary Susan Locke
Patricia Neway
Marion Marlowe, Kurt Kaznar & Theodore Bikel
Mary Martin & Theodore Bikel
Original Broadway Cast of The Sound of Music
Mary Martin & Lauri Peters
Theodore Bikel
Original Broadway Cast of The Sound of Music & Patricia Neway
In “How Can Love Survive” Max tells Elsa that only poor people have time for true love because they have little else in life to appreciate. Elsa agrees that their wealth affects her and the Captain’s relationship, but she is determined for their love to survive.
[MAX]
In all the famous love affairs the lovers
Have to struggle
In garret rooms away upstairs the lovers
Starve and snuggle
They're famous for misfortunes which they seem to
Have no fear of
While lovers who are very rich you very
Seldom hear of
[ELSA]
No little shack do you share with me
We do not flee from a mortgagee
Nary a care in the world have we
[MAX]
How can love survive?
[ELSA]
You're fond of bonds and you own a lot
I have a plane and a diesel yacht
[MAX]
Plenty of nothing you haven't got
How can love survive?
[ELSA]
No rides for us on the top of a bus
In the face of the freezing breezes
[MAX]
You reach your goals in your comfy old Rolls
Or in one of your Mercedeses
[ELSA]
Far, very far off the beam are we
Quaint and bizarre as a team are we
Two millionaires with a dream are we
We're keeping romance alive
Two millionaires with a dream are we
We'll make our love survive
No little cold water flat have we
Warmed by the glow of insolvency
[MAX]
Up to your necks in security
How can love survive?
[ELSA]
How can I show what I feel for you?
I cannot go out and steal for you
I cannot die like Camille for you
How can love survive?
[MAX]
You millionaires with financial affairs
Are too busy for simple pleasure
When you are poor it is toujours l'amour
For l'amour all the poor have leisure
[ELSA]
Caught in our gold-plated chains are we
Lost in our wealthy domains are we
Trapped by our capital gains are we
But we'll keep romance alive
[MAX]
Trapped by our capital gains are we
[ELSA]
We'll make our love survive
How Can Love Survive? was written by Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II & Rodgers & Hammerstein.
How Can Love Survive? was produced by Goddard Lieberson.