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
[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
[SOPHIA]
But her penitence is real
[BERTHE]
She's always late for everything
Except for every meal
I hate to have to say it
But I very firmly feel
Maria's not an asset to the abbey
[MARGARETTA]
I'd like to say a word in her behalf
[MOTHER ABBESS, spoken]
Then say it, Sister Margaretta
[MARGARETTA]
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
[BERTHE]
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'll out-pester any pest
Drive a hornet from his nest
[BERTHE]
She can throw a whirling dervish out of whirl
[MARGARETTA]
She is gentle, she is wild
[SOPHIA]
She's a riddle, she's a child
[BERTHE]
She's a headache
[MARGARETTA]
She's an angel
[MOTHER ABBESS]
She's a girl
[MOTHER ABBESS, BERTHE, MARGARETTA & SOPHIA]
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?
[MARGARETTA]
A flibbertigibbet?
[SOPHIA]
A will-o'-the-wisp?
[BERTHE]
A clown?
[MOTHER ABBESS, BERTHE, MARGARETTA & SOPHIA]
Many a thing you know you'd like to tell her
Many a thing she ought to understand
[MOTHER ABBESS]
But how do you make her stay
[SOPHIA]
And listen to all you say?
[MARGARETTA]
How do you keep a wave upon the sand?
[MOTHER ABBESS, BERTHE, MARGARETTA & SOPHIA]
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 Goddard Lieberson.