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Post by gothicbutterfly95 on May 13, 2017 7:59:01 GMT
Musical only point, but I wanted to see what you all thought.
When Rolfe delivers the telegram after Maria and Georg return from their honeymoon and Franz is revealed to be with the Nazis, he says "Even everyone in Nonnberg except the great Captain von Trapp." Um, what? Unless I am drastically missing something, Nonnberg is the Abbey and ONLY the Abbey. Meaning there is no way Georg could have ever been there in the way the line suggests. Now (correct me if I'm wrong but) the musical never mentions Salzburg, but they do talk about 'the province' when flying the flag (or lack of).
Why is this line in the play?
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Post by lemacd on May 20, 2017 4:13:30 GMT
i'm not really sure what you are talking about. that's weird unless they are saying the abbey is, what... flying the flag? which is weird because they wouldn't. no idea.
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Post by gothicbutterfly95 on May 20, 2017 5:29:00 GMT
No, the flying the flag is referring to the villa (musical version of 'only flag in the neighbourhood'). As I hear the line (Rolfe's that is), Nonnberg seems to be substituting for Salzburg, which just makes no sense. Basically, my point was if 'the province' has been used to refer to Salzburg before, why couldn't they do it again, instead of 'Nonnberg' which doesn't make any sense (being the Abbey and all).
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Post by utility_singer on Jun 2, 2017 16:56:39 GMT
I'm going to go with artistic license. They may have simply wanted a different reference, and audiences at the time wouldn't have been concerned with the accuracy of such a fleeting moment.
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Post by gothicbutterfly95 on Jun 3, 2017 12:22:46 GMT
Most likely. If figured that would be the answer. But being as crazy about it as I am (I'm here after all), I had to ask
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