Julie Andrews & Irwin Kostal
Cast of The Sound of Music
Evadne Baker, Anna Lee, Marni Nixon, & Portia Nelson
Evadne Baker, Anna Lee, Marni Nixon, & Portia Nelson
Julie Andrews
Dan Truhitte & Charmian Carr
Julie Andrews
Julie Andrews & Nicholas Hammond & Kym Karath & Heather Menzies & Duane Chase & Debbie Turner & Charmian Carr & Angela Cartwright
Charmain Carr, Heather Menzies, Nicholas Hammond, Duane Chase, Angela Cartwright, Debbie Turner, Kvm Karath & Bill Lee
Julie Andrews, Charmian Carr, Heather Menzies, Nicholas Hammond, Duane Chase, Angela Cartwright, Debbie Turner & Kym Karath
Angela Cartwright, Nicholas Hammond, Kym Karath, Duane Chase, Charmian Carr, Heather Menzies, & Debbie Turner
Margery McKay
Julie Andrews & Bill Lee
Cast of The Sound of Music
Julie Andrews, Bill Lee, Charmian Carr, Heather Menzies, Nicholas Hammond, Duane Chase, Angela Cartwright, Debbie Turner & Kym Karath
Cast of The Sound of Music
This song features multiple nuns of Maria’s abbey singing about the difficulty of ‘handling’ this unpredictable young woman in their midst. Even though she wants to be one of them, she’s not quiet or reserved; and she doesn’t always successfully follow the common standards of abbey life.
The sister...
[BERTHE]
She climbs a tree
And scrapes her knee
Her dress has got a tear
[SOPHIA]
She waltzes on her way to mass
And whistles on the stair
[BERTHE]
And underneath her wimple
She has curlers in her hair!
[SOPHIA]
I've even heard her singing in the abbey
[BERTHE]
She's always late for chapel
[MARGARETTA]
But her penitence is real
[BERTHE]
She's always late for everything
Except for every meal
[MOTHER ABBESS]
I hate to have to say it
But I very firmly feel
[BERTHE AND SOPHIA]
Maria's not an asset to the abbey!
[MARGARETTA]
I'd like to say a word in her behalf
Maria makes me laugh!
[SOPHIA]
How do you solve a problem like Maria?
[MOTHER ABBESS]
How do you catch a cloud and pin it down?
[MARGARETTA]
How do you find a word that means Maria?
[BERTHE]
A flibbertigibbet!
[SOPHIA]
A will-o'-the-wisp!
[MARGARETTA]
A clown!
[MOTHER ABBESS]
Many a thing you know you'd like to tell her
Many a thing she ought to understand
[MARGARETTA]
But how do you make her stay?
And listen to all you say?
[MOTHER ABBESS]
How do you keep a wave upon the sand?
[MARGARETTA]
Oh, how do you solve a problem like Maria?
[MOTHER ABBESS]
How do you hold a moonbeam in your hand?
[MARGARETTA]
When I'm with her I'm confused
Out of focus and bemused
And I never know exactly where I am
[SOPHIA]
Unpredictable as weather
She's as flighty as a feather
[MARGARETTA]
She's a darling
[BERTHE]
She's a demon
[MARGARETTA]
She's a lamb
[SOPHIA]
She'd out-pester any pest
Drive a hornet from its nest
[BERTHE]
She can throw a whirling dervish out of whirl
[MARGARETTA]
She is gentle
She is wild
[SOPHIA]
She's a riddle
[MARGARETTA]
She's a child
[BERTHE]
She's a headache!
[MARGARETTA]
She's an angel!
[MOTHER ABBESS]
She's a girl
[ALL NUNS]
How do you solve a problem like Maria?
How do you catch a cloud and pin it down?
How do you find a word that means Maria?
A flibbertigibbet?
A will-o'-the-wisp?
A clown
Many a thing you know you'd like to tell her
Many a thing she ought to understand
But how do you make her stay
And listen to all you say?
How do you keep a wave upon the sand?
Oh, how do you solve a problem like Maria?
How do you hold a moonbeam in your hand?
Maria was written by Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II & Rodgers & Hammerstein.
Maria was produced by Neely Plumb.
Evadne Baker, Anna Lee, Marni Nixon, & Portia Nelson released Maria on Tue Mar 02 1965.