Trapp Family

Can't stay off it, eh?

You're like the Samoan Von Trapp family.

[laughs]What a reference

I, like-

And this is why nobody will probably come back.

He says, Ruffy, the Von Trapp family were lucky to get out of Austria.

There's no chance.

Was

Yes.

And I've always wanted to be part of the Von Trapp family.

Yes.

You know, and then go to the hills.

It's not

just about the movie, it says.

Upstairs, the museum also tells the real story of the Von Trapp family, including their life as singers and their eventual escape to America.

So yes, the hills are alive.

Because fantastical though the movie may sometimes be, it is based on a real story.

It's based on the story of young Maria who went to become a governess for the children of the Austro-Hungarian Admiral von Trapp.

after she had left her postulancy.

Where was her postulancy? Why, nowhere other than Nunberg Abbey.

Yes, this is where Maria von Trapp was a postulant.

I believe that the cloister where the nuns sing that musical number, How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?, is actually a set in Hollywood.

If you go to the monastery nowadays, you will see nothing at all that resembles the setting from that particular scene.

But much of the other parts of the movie were filmed here.

Brewery.

And it is that Von Trapp family that you're all thinking of from the sound of music.

Wow.

It's the grandchildren, I believe, now that are running the brewery.

Without reading the whole article, allow me to quickly summarize.

Elizabeth Von Trapp, the daughter of an original Von Trapp son named Kurt in the movie, but Werner in real life.

Kurt was incorrigible.

Incorrigible, that's right.

But importantly, the article continues.

John and Tracy Combs, a couple from Dayton, Ohio, were accompanying Bon Trapp on her walking tour through Salzburg.

Quote, I love the combination of it being... much about the movie, of course, but about the real Von Trapp family, which I've read much about over the years, said Terry Combs.

And having met and known Elizabeth a little bit, it just brought it full circle.

And it was a community theater production.

And no, I was not a Von Trapp child.

I was a child denizen of Nuremberg because it was a community theater.

So they had a huge children's chorus of like 105 random kids that just appeared to sing the second verse of Do Re Mi.

Okay.

And I think that's why I'm still doing it.

I just couldn't hack one of those Von Trapp kids.

So I'm still here trying to live my dream as Liesl.

Yeah,

it's about the Von Trapp family.

Oh my gosh, Julie Andrews.

Yeah, so good.

And she took me to the Bethlehem Bach Festival.

She took me up to the Trapp Family Singers.

She went with me the first time to Japan.

Right.