The play of “The sound of music”
Characters: a teacher; Dad; seven children(including Alice and Belly)
In the garden
All of them: (sing) are you sleeping? Are you sleeping, my dear bird, my dear bird. Morning bells are ringing. Morning bells are ringing. Dingdong ding, dingdong ding.
Bird: (WAKE UP)wow, nice day!
Alice: (sing) red and yellow and pink and green, purple and orange and blue. I can sing a rain…
Father: children, together.(seven children come together.) Attention. At ease. Attention.
(look around) Alice, the flowers. You! your hat. You! the shoes. I invite a teacher for you. You must obey her. clear?
All of the children: Yes, dad!
(the door bell is ringing and Maria comes in.)
Maria: Good morning, boys and girls. I am Maria.
All of the children: Good morning, Maria.
Father: The children for you. I must go now. Bye.
All of the children:Bye.
Maria: Bye.
(to children)
Maria: (sing) Good morning. Good morning. Good morning to my friends.
All of the children: (sing) Good morning. Good morning. Good morning to Maria.
Maria: (sing to a girl) hello, pretty girl! hello, pretty girl! How old are you? How old are you?
a girl: (sing) I’m ten, Maria. I’m ten, Maria. Glad to see you.
Maria: Glad to see you.
(sing to a boy) hello, pretty boy! Hello, pretty boy! What’s your name? What’s your name?
Belly: (sing) My name is Belly. My name is Belly. Glad to see you. Glad to see you.
Maria: ok! I will be your new teacher. I wish we can have a good time.
All of the children: yeah!
Maria: Do you like songs?
All of the children: Song?
Maria: Yes. I will teach you some beautiful songs.
All of the children: Yeah.
Maria: well, let’s go.
Let's start at the very beginning
A very good place to start
When you read you begin with
A-B-C
When you sing you begin with do-re-mi
Do-re-mi
Do-re-mi
The first three notes just happen to be
Do-re-mi
Do-re-mi
Do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti
Oh, let's see if I can make it easier
(one child dances .)
Doe, a deer, a female deer
Ray, a drop of golden sun
Me, a name I call myself
Far, a long long way to run
Sew, a needle pulling thread
La, a note to follow sew
Tea, I drink with jam and bread
That will bring us back to do...oh oh oh
(all children dance together.)
Doe, a deer, a female deer
Ray, a drop of golden sun
Me, a name I call myself
Far, a long long way to run
Sew, a needle pulling thread
La, a note to follow sew
Tea, I drink with jam and bread
That will bring us back to Do
Doe, a deer, a female deer
Ray, a drop of golden sun
Me, a name I call myself
Far, a long long way to run
Sew, a needle pulling thread
La, a note to follow sew
Tea, I drink with jam and bread
That will bring us backto do
Do re mi fa so la ti do, so do
(The door bell is ringing and the father comes in.)
Father: Children, together. What are you doing?
Maria:Hello,sir.
Children: Hello, Dad.
Alice: Dad, don’t angry with us. We like singing.
Other children: Do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do.
Alice: We like dancing. We like playing with each other. We don’t like attention.
Other children: Yes, we don’t like attention.
Father: (Think about the words Alice said, Then, pick up some flowers for the children.)
I’m sorry, my children. Let’s dance together.
(The family dance together happily.)
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