I just played Baroness Schraeder in a stage adaptation of Sound of Music, and I have to say, right on sister! Had so much sympathy for that character. Georg proposes to Maria FIVE MINUTES after he and Elsa break up. She hadn’t even left the house yet. All three of us actors playing Georg, Maria, and Elsa were like Wtf, dude?! 😂
Not a stage adaptation. The Sound of Music is a musical, written for the stage. The film is an adaptation of the stage show. The musical is an adaptation of Maria’s memoirs, which deal pretty freely with the facts.
@@orsino88 Yea I am aware of that considering I was just in it, lol! I wanted to make the distinction that the stage version and the film version of the musical are very different from one another, particularly when it comes to my role. She is not known as Baroness Schraeder in the stage version, only Frau Schraeder or Elsa. She also has two songs that were cut from the film, and she does not cause Maria to leave after the dinner (Brigitta actually tells Maria that she is in love with the Captain and the Captain is in love with Maria, not Elsa). Additionally, the character was invented and was not based on a real person.
@ , I played the Captain in high school, and had a great Elsa and Max. We were thrilled to do “No Way To Stop It”-the best song in the show-it’s a crime it wasn’t used in the movie.
@@megangramlich6031 I read the memoir a while ago, but I thought that the Baroness was based on a princess that Georg was seeing at the time. IIRC, when he broke it off with her she supposedly spread a rumor that Maria was pregnant (hence the quick marriage). Personally, I prefer the fictional account - the real Maria doesn’t sound awesome, TBH,
You know, this isn't something I ever would have thought about but now you've really made me appreciate what that poor Baroness went through. Justice for Baroness Schraeder!
I don't even know why, as a kid, I really disliked her! I felt bad for her when re-watching as an adult. I just didn't like the bit where she emotionally manipulated Maria a bit, but I got where she was coming from.
I read Maria's memoir. It seems the woman (she was actually a princess in real life) didn't want to marry the captain, she kept delaying everything over and over and it must have been a great relief to have him finally do the breaking up.
@@sadroses2 i think it’s because she doesn’t seem to have anything in common with him, she seems to like his status and the fact that he’s handsome, she doesn’t like his kids at all and can’t interact naturally and without posing with them, she’s cosmopolitan and loves beautiful clothes and society, and he just wants to stay in the mountains and sing yodeleeehoooh, or edelweiss and things like that. they just don’t work together at all. he seems to also find her a bit vain and superficial, and because the main story is about him and maria, the audience follows that pov as well. she’s not bad, she just wasted her time on someone who clearly was not interested, and if she would have been honest with herself, she wasn’t interested in him either.
Incredible. I've seen Sound of Music approximately one billion times, and it always did strike me that the Countess was unfathomably gracious about giving her man away to this upstart weirdo nobody who was just supposed to keep the kids out of the way so she could spend his money. Now I know it was all a pose.
lol. Agreed! I have also seen it approximately one billion times. I’ve been to showings dressed as characters. This and Rocky Horror Picture Show screenings I absolutely adore.
Lindhome's choices of material, her writing, and humor are stellar. It doesn't hurt that she's got that voice and knows how to use it. Thanks for another wonderful satire that I never knew that I needed. More please Riki
The absolute grace & dignity she held while breaking it off with him was unfathomable! Justice for Baroness Schraeder! Recently went to a singalong screening of this & ppl were hissing whenever she was mentioned or on screen-philistines.
I can't begin to tell you how awesome this is. I have tears streaming down my face! At first I was thinking you were referring to the 1938 Munich Agreement, but just found out about Salzburg and the 1816 Treaty of Munich.. Now that is a deep dive!
This song is really rich in terms of production values. I don't recall a G&O (or solo) song that had so many instruments and layers to it sonically. The credits list Polyglam, so I checked them out on Spotify and they're pretty lush. Interesting to see Riki got a co-director credit on this too, she's a hard worker.
I thought I couldn't love anything more than your work with Garfunkel & Oates. Then I thought "Middle-Aged Love" was your best work. This is brilliant. Top this and I'll quit my job and work for you.
"Well, I would be an ungrateful wretch if I didn't tell you at least once that it was you who brought some meaning back into my life..." - Captain von Trapp to the Baroness
Sound of music is one of those movies I watched when I was so young My brain wasn’t developed enough to properly understand a plot and I never watched it since so… thanks for the recap!
She was clearly a villain because she wanted to *checks notes* send the kids to a boarding school out of the future warzone they’d be fleeing soon anyway.
Yessss! I saw Riki Lindhome's show "Dead Inside" at the Fringe and it was incredible. I went and followed her TH-cam channel in the hope that she would eventually post this song
I recently saw the movie for the first time since childhood, and this is exactly what I was thinking! ❤ Great work, Riki! (and you got the dress right, too!)
I’m surprised my neighbors haven’t complained given the number of times I’ve loudly sung, “karma, b*tch” in the last 24 hours. I’ve got this song on constant repeat…
She was a very noble woman to handle that situation as she did, but let's be honest, Georg was never going to see those kids again when she sent them all off to boarding schools so she could continue being a society lady.
Good to hear Elsa's take he he. She's way to graceful in the movie. And have to give kudos to the dancing violin playing nun ... Which I learned from another comment is Allie Stamler.
I think this comment probably applies to most of Lindhome's sings, but I'll say it anyway. This is exactly what I didn't know I needed right now. I'm so glad I listened.
The Baroness now has a Disney villian song and we are living for it.
Technically I think this would be Maria & georg's villain song lol
The hills are alive with the sound of truth bombs.
🤣🤣🤣
😂
"Newsflash: no one's favorite thing is string" 🤣🤣
That was my favorite line--I cackled!
I mean, it's the brown paper packages tied up with string. Everyone loves getting a gift. But yes, the line is hilarious.
Followed by a nun playing on violin strings.
"A world without string is chaos."-Lars Smuntz
I just played Baroness Schraeder in a stage adaptation of Sound of Music, and I have to say, right on sister! Had so much sympathy for that character. Georg proposes to Maria FIVE MINUTES after he and Elsa break up. She hadn’t even left the house yet. All three of us actors playing Georg, Maria, and Elsa were like Wtf, dude?! 😂
21…no mystery.
Not a stage adaptation. The Sound of Music is a musical, written for the stage. The film is an adaptation of the stage show. The musical is an adaptation of Maria’s memoirs, which deal pretty freely with the facts.
@@orsino88 Yea I am aware of that considering I was just in it, lol! I wanted to make the distinction that the stage version and the film version of the musical are very different from one another, particularly when it comes to my role. She is not known as Baroness Schraeder in the stage version, only Frau Schraeder or Elsa. She also has two songs that were cut from the film, and she does not cause Maria to leave after the dinner (Brigitta actually tells Maria that she is in love with the Captain and the Captain is in love with Maria, not Elsa). Additionally, the character was invented and was not based on a real person.
@ , I played the Captain in high school, and had a great Elsa and Max. We were thrilled to do “No Way To Stop It”-the best song in the show-it’s a crime it wasn’t used in the movie.
@@megangramlich6031 I read the memoir a while ago, but I thought that the Baroness was based on a princess that Georg was seeing at the time. IIRC, when he broke it off with her she supposedly spread a rumor that Maria was pregnant (hence the quick marriage).
Personally, I prefer the fictional account - the real Maria doesn’t sound awesome, TBH,
this is my Wicked, eagerly awaiting full musical 📈
Amazing. Given how much Christopher Plummer disliked his role in that movie, I only wish he had lived long enough to hear this.
Especially considering Riki worked with him in his last film: Knives Out
Nothing like having a stepmother that’s less than five years older than you.
I played Elsa Schrader in The Sound of Music high school, and there are no words for how much I love this ❤
I don't even like The Sound of Music and I still love this.
You know, this isn't something I ever would have thought about but now you've really made me appreciate what that poor Baroness went through. Justice for Baroness Schraeder!
I don't even know why, as a kid, I really disliked her! I felt bad for her when re-watching as an adult. I just didn't like the bit where she emotionally manipulated Maria a bit, but I got where she was coming from.
I read Maria's memoir. It seems the woman (she was actually a princess in real life) didn't want to marry the captain, she kept delaying everything over and over and it must have been a great relief to have him finally do the breaking up.
@@sadroses2 i think it’s because she doesn’t seem to have anything in common with him, she seems to like his status and the fact that he’s handsome, she doesn’t like his kids at all and can’t interact naturally and without posing with them, she’s cosmopolitan and loves beautiful clothes and society, and he just wants to stay in the mountains and sing yodeleeehoooh, or edelweiss and things like that. they just don’t work together at all. he seems to also find her a bit vain and superficial, and because the main story is about him and maria, the audience follows that pov as well. she’s not bad, she just wasted her time on someone who clearly was not interested, and if she would have been honest with herself, she wasn’t interested in him either.
The baroness IS dislikable. She just wants to put their money together and 86 the kids
She handled the breakup with an incredible amount of grace given her situation.
Incredible.
I've seen Sound of Music approximately one billion times, and it always did strike me that the Countess was unfathomably gracious about giving her man away to this upstart weirdo nobody who was just supposed to keep the kids out of the way so she could spend his money.
Now I know it was all a pose.
lol. Agreed! I have also seen it approximately one billion times. I’ve been to showings dressed as characters. This and Rocky Horror Picture Show screenings I absolutely adore.
@@katej23 Sound of Music and RHPS, the true duality of theatre kid
I would pay good money to see a fully done Riki Lindhome production of Sound of Music
Does Riki play every role (including the Nazis?)
Same
Lindhome's choices of material, her writing, and humor are stellar. It doesn't hurt that she's got that voice and knows how to use it. Thanks for another wonderful satire that I never knew that I needed. More please Riki
It's all the octopus placenta.
I love this so much. I kinda want a whole musical from the Baroness' perspective now.
Did I just hear someone say Wicked von Trapp???
It is wild how many people don't know The Sound Of Music is based on a real story. It is based on an autobiography. Those plot holes actually happened
Loosely. Loosely based on the real Von Trapps. Maria has an autobiography if you're at all interested.
Everything from the dress to the song to the violinist to the backdrops 🤌🏾🤌🏾🤌🏾😘
Well this was completely freaking awesome. It’s crazy how the character is WAY more sympathetic now that I’m her age.
All around fabulous and props to the violinist, she was hilarious and I loved when you both broke out in a dance.
The absolute grace & dignity she held while breaking it off with him was unfathomable! Justice for Baroness Schraeder! Recently went to a singalong screening of this & ppl were hissing whenever she was mentioned or on screen-philistines.
I can't begin to tell you how awesome this is. I have tears streaming down my face! At first I was thinking you were referring to the 1938 Munich Agreement, but just found out about Salzburg and the 1816 Treaty of Munich.. Now that is a deep dive!
This song is really rich in terms of production values. I don't recall a G&O (or solo) song that had so many instruments and layers to it sonically. The credits list Polyglam, so I checked them out on Spotify and they're pretty lush. Interesting to see Riki got a co-director credit on this too, she's a hard worker.
As a fan of the original film, the truth bombs were so on point in this song! Bravo! 👏👏👏👏
The perspective I never knew I needed.
I thought I couldn't love anything more than your work with Garfunkel & Oates. Then I thought "Middle-Aged Love" was your best work. This is brilliant. Top this and I'll quit my job and work for you.
FInally, the sequel we all needed
And here I thought that Wicked was going to be the best "Turning a beloved musical on its head" performance I saw all year. Nope, Riki wins!
"Well, I would be an ungrateful wretch if I didn't tell you at least once that it was you who brought some meaning back into my life..." - Captain von Trapp to the Baroness
Amazing, catchy. I always thought the Baroness needed more development. Eleanor Parker was gorgeous too.
The hills are dying over here! 😅
not me hitting that replay button like as soon as the video is over 2:37
Didn’t know we needed this. WE NEEDED THIS.
Sound of music is one of those movies I watched when I was so young My brain wasn’t developed enough to properly understand a plot and I never watched it since so… thanks for the recap!
What an appropriate video to release while we are on the closing weekend of our own five-weekend run of "The Sound of Music"!
She was clearly a villain because she wanted to *checks notes* send the kids to a boarding school out of the future warzone they’d be fleeing soon anyway.
Riki - I have followed you for years and loved the duo act. But this. This is so beyond. Terrific music and production. More please
How do you solve a problem like Maria? Turns out, quiet quitting was not the correct answer. This was.
the outfit and hair is so on point. I have to say Riki keeps getting better and better
Yessss! I saw Riki Lindhome's show "Dead Inside" at the Fringe and it was incredible. I went and followed her TH-cam channel in the hope that she would eventually post this song
I also saw her show at the Fringe. Came out of it fully in tears. It was wonderful.
This video is my favorite thing right now
My new favorite Christmas song!
The dress is beautiful too!
Riki..... a true, genuine, brilliant artist. One of a kind. Hilarious too!
There should be some kind of award for this performance!
Istg The Baroness is such an icon
yay, Allie Stamler as violin nun!
Ty for supplying her name. Role Models is where I knew her from.
The passionate violin chords after "Karma, bitch!" are everything.
I recognized her from MADJB myself, but had to check the video descriptions to make sure I was right
@@declanbigger4049 yeah, it's been really cool to see her pop up with Riki and MADJB lately
Giving "Satisfied" vibes 💯. And you look absolutely stunning!
I recently saw the movie for the first time since childhood, and this is exactly what I was thinking! ❤ Great work, Riki! (and you got the dress right, too!)
I just introduced my kids to the Sound of Music, I can't wait to show them this!
this has been stuck in my head for 4 days now
I always thought that the Baroness was so nice and understanding, but now I realize that she was just over it.
Wow....beautiful
We should claim that the long lost "deleted scene" film reel has finally been found!
My mom read the book and she got the Baroness right.
I've been waiting for this since hearing it at the fringe! Exciting to finally have a recording.
SofM was by far my favorite musical as a kid. This actually made me laugh out loud several times. F*ing Brilliant!!
I’m surprised my neighbors haven’t complained given the number of times I’ve loudly sung, “karma, b*tch” in the last 24 hours. I’ve got this song on constant repeat…
Take that "Wicked" !
Yessss I played Elsa in a community theatre production and she deserved better!!
I have been listening to this on repeat! The lyrics, the production, the comedy!
This is awesome!
I don't know how many times I've listened to this since it went up. Easily a dozen, probably more.;
This is my very favorite thing on the Internet right now. Thank you!
She was a very noble woman to handle that situation as she did, but let's be honest, Georg was never going to see those kids again when she sent them all off to boarding schools so she could continue being a society lady.
That's the kind of revisionist history we need!
2:19 That nun dance tho! 😮
This is brilliant I can't believe no one I know likes this musical enough to get how funny it is
I cannot love this enough. I was always on her side😂
Justice for side characters, you tell 'em Riki!
The Hills are alive with the sound of bull s**t, made me lol!
I don't think anyone ever liked her character, but Lindhome raises some good points.
Lots of us love her.
A lot of people like the character. She was a human being, one with a good heart.
I always liked her, but it might just be cause I'm fruity...
I love Elsa! She’s a badass
Damn that was a good breakup song! It slapped! I love Sound of Music, and this adds depth and deserved character support.
Good to hear Elsa's take he he. She's way to graceful in the movie. And have to give kudos to the dancing violin playing nun ... Which I learned from another comment is Allie Stamler.
This is my first vid of yours and let’s just say you have a new subscriber! You’re amazing!
Riki you are insanely talented. Hard to put in words how much I love this. And I never thought you would top middle-age love. ❤
Brilliant!!!! 😂😂
A delightfully fun song
Masterpiece! About time she got to have her say! 😂😂😂
One Of Beautiful Riki’s Very Best, and So Worth Waiting For After 60 Years, My Beautiful Baroness Riki!!!!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️👩🦳👩🦳👩🦳👩🦳❤️❤️❤️❤️
Having played Georg Von Trapp... this is BRILLIANT!!
HAHA fantastic as always
releasing this video while Wicked is still utterly sparkling in all the theaters is just *chefs kiss*
Okay, now do Meredith from the Parent Trap.
Now this is really good! Very funny and very well done.
I love you, Riki
i love how she sings adieu omg
SO good!!!
I think this comment probably applies to most of Lindhome's sings, but I'll say it anyway. This is exactly what I didn't know I needed right now. I'm so glad I listened.
Fabulous!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
God DAMN it, Riki, you're pretty good at this.
As brilliant as ever! Love you Riki! Stellar lyrics and the nun stroking the fiddle: brilliant!
Great one, Riki!
You kill!!! Great concept, super staging and photography, and, of course, wonderfully sung! Well done!
Cheers,
Alan
Berlin
Very glad this is about the purely fictional Baroness Schraeder and not the real-life Princess Yvonne!
She took the news calmly
Genius just genius🎉
Love when she's spinning at the end like Maria.
This is sheer brilliance. No notes.
Riki's still bringing the hits! Great take on a classic film! 🙂
This is simply brilliant 🤩 I want more 🤩
Thank you I thought I was the only one who thought the Baroness got a raw deal.
Another fantastic parody song by the mistress of saltire. Loved it!
This is the best thing I never knew I needed.