So Long Farewell (A Breakup Anthem for Baroness Schraeder) by Riki Lindhome

[@AeliaReadsBooks]

The Baroness now has a Disney villian song and we are living for it.

[@elijahcumpton9926]

Technically I think this would be Maria & georg's villain song lol

[@happybat1977]

She's the victim!

[@helegis]

Sh'e never been a villain, it's just that the so-called "heroes" haven't aged well

[@AeliaReadsBooks]

@@helegis My comment had less to do with the character and more to do with the song tone sounding like a Disney villian song, lol

[@richpeltier9519]

The hills are alive with the sound of truth bombs.

[@hareonthegrove]

🤣🤣🤣

[@doublemintmaple]

😂

[@drayeractor]

"Newsflash: no one's favorite thing is string" 🤣🤣

[@rachelg3274]

That was my favorite line--I cackled!

[@danielleshanti]

I mean, it's the brown paper packages tied up with string. Everyone loves getting a gift. But yes, the line is hilarious.

[@Grim_Beard]

[@BigBadVulture]

Followed by a nun playing on violin strings.

[@MariusLoveland]

"A world without string is chaos."-Lars Smuntz

[@megangramlich6031]

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?! 😂

[@radish6691]

21…no mystery.

[@orsino88]

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.

[@megangramlich6031]

@@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.

[@orsino88]

@ , 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.

[@jennybird313]

​@@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,

[@rebeccabrown4277]

Nothing like having a stepmother that’s less than five years older than you.

[@ashleytuchin7693]

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!

[@sadroses2]

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.

[@babsbybend]

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.

[@monicad99]

@@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.

[@aarongilmore1254]

The baroness IS dislikable. She just wants to put their money together and 86 the kids

[@echomoon_]

She handled the breakup with an incredible amount of grace given her situation.

[@tedkonkel]

Amazing. Given how much Christopher Plummer disliked his role in that movie, I only wish he had lived long enough to hear this.

[@mustardsfire22]

Especially considering Riki worked with him in his last film: Knives Out

[@shayelea]

I played Elsa Schrader in The Sound of Music high school, and there are no words for how much I love this ❤

[@angrypom]

I don't even like The Sound of Music and I still love this.

[@schmoyoho]

this is my Wicked, eagerly awaiting full musical 📈

[@BadgerOfTheSea]

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

[@cbpd89]

Loosely. Loosely based on the real Von Trapps. Maria has an autobiography if you're at all interested.

[@Jennylectric]

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.

[@sharplessguy]

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

[@Kevin_Kennelly]

It's all the octopus placenta.

[@NevTheDeranged]

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.

[@katej23]

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.

[@suniuphill161]

@@katej23 Sound of Music and RHPS, the true duality of theatre kid

[@RichardHewitt-gn5ql]

I would pay good money to see a fully done Riki Lindhome production of Sound of Music

[@TarynRMartin]

Does Riki play every role (including the Nazis?)

[@Chicklo11]

Same

[@HeatherLam]

I love this so much. I kinda want a whole musical from the Baroness' perspective now.

[@LM-ch8rh]

Did I just hear someone say Wicked von Trapp???

[@glamourweaver]

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.

[@edwina685]

All around fabulous and props to the violinist, she was hilarious and I loved when you both broke out in a dance.

[@rosabscura]

Everything from the dress to the song to the violinist to the backdrops 🤌🏾🤌🏾🤌🏾😘

[@sharplessguy]

"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

[@stephaniecody8031]

Well this was completely freaking awesome. It’s crazy how the character is WAY more sympathetic now that I’m her age.

[@RRonco]

The hills are dying over here! 😅

[@oscargordon]

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!

[@Cavemancavan]

How do you solve a problem like Maria? Turns out, quiet quitting was not the correct answer. This was.

[@JKevinCarrier]

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!

[@tobybartels8426]

I always thought that the Baroness was so nice and understanding, but now I realize that she was just over it.

[@Apr0x1m0]

The perspective I never knew I needed.

[@DevilSeiji]

FInally, the sequel we all needed

[@JordanVanRyn]

As a fan of the original film, the truth bombs were so on point in this song! Bravo! 👏👏👏👏

[@MeredithHagan]

This won’t get the Grammy nomination it deserves and that makes me sad.

[@flamephlegm]

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.

[@Fourleggedfreak]

not me hitting that replay button like as soon as the video is over 2:37

[@EthanHammersmith]

yay, Allie Stamler as violin nun!

[@davidbeppler3032]

Ty for supplying her name. Role Models is where I knew her from.

[@stevenzumbrun6105]

The passionate violin chords after "Karma, bitch!" are everything.

[@declanbigger4049]

I recognized her from MADJB myself, but had to check the video descriptions to make sure I was right

[@EthanHammersmith]

@@declanbigger4049 yeah, it's been really cool to see her pop up with Riki and MADJB lately

[@OrdinisChao]

2:19 That nun dance tho! 😮

[@kristengilbert9749]

Istg The Baroness is such an icon

[@sheherezahade]

Amazing, catchy. I always thought the Baroness needed more development. Eleanor Parker was gorgeous too.

[@matthewmorrisdon5491]

My mom read the book and she got the Baroness right.

[@Tugboat_City]

Take that "Wicked" !

[@lauraking8934]

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.

[@chagrinvalleylittletheatre]

What an appropriate video to release while we are on the closing weekend of our own five-weekend run of "The Sound of Music"!

[@orangecouch]

This is sheer brilliance. No notes.

[@kevinsd99]

I don't think anyone ever liked her character, but Lindhome raises some good points.

[@jauntydamemusic]

Lots of us love her.

[@Rosannasfriend]

A lot of people like the character. She was a human being, one with a good heart.

[@mikaelaisraelsson119]

I always liked her, but it might just be cause I'm fruity...

[@feelthejoy]

I love Elsa! She’s a badass

[@NewMessage]

My new favorite Christmas song!

[@Sara-r5r1z]

This video is my favorite thing right now

[@ozge1dursun]

The dress is beautiful too!

[@SometimesMyself]

Didn’t know we needed this. WE NEEDED THIS.

[@jfess1911]

We should claim that the long lost "deleted scene" film reel has finally been found!

[@ashethewitch1156]

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!

[@gasparinha]

Giving "Satisfied" vibes 💯. And you look absolutely stunning!

[@RiniDiamandis]

this has been stuck in my head for 4 days now

[@dscataglini]

the outfit and hair is so on point. I have to say Riki keeps getting better and better

[@RossCompose]

There should be some kind of award for this performance!

[@christophermahon1851]

That's the kind of revisionist history we need!

[@kathygrosvenor7900]

Riki..... a true, genuine, brilliant artist. One of a kind. Hilarious too!

[@gregparker97013]

Riki - I have followed you for years and loved the duo act. But this. This is so beyond. Terrific music and production. More please

[@thinkbolt]

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!)

[@craigcurtis5965]

This is so hilarious! I shared the video and it got rave. They want more revenge songs from Broadway/Hollywood. I do, too! You're great. Don't let your child near a Google Machine!❤

[@liasanders1929]

Yessss! I saw Riki Lindhome's show "Dead Inside" at the Fringe and it was incredible. I went and followed her KZbin channel in the hope that she would eventually post this song

[@chelshocked]

I also saw her show at the Fringe. Came out of it fully in tears. It was wonderful.

[@bottlezone]

I just introduced my kids to the Sound of Music, I can't wait to show them this!

[@radish6691]

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…

[@marasupials]

genius

[@stefaniedee2969]

The Hills are alive with the sound of bull s**t, made me lol!

[@Jme62]

Finally! Someone gets the real story! Lol

[@michelleanndunphy]

Yessss I played Elsa in a community theatre production and she deserved better!!

[@RiniDiamandis]

i love how she sings adieu omg

[@AgentMaayan]

I've been waiting for this since hearing it at the fringe! Exciting to finally have a recording.

[@johnnytownsend4204]

Love when she's spinning at the end like Maria.

[@gbonkers666]

Wow....beautiful

[@eburb8147]

Justice for side characters, you tell 'em Riki!

[@PaganVegas]

SofM was by far my favorite musical as a kid. This actually made me laugh out loud several times. F*ing Brilliant!!

[@cmp_denver]

Brilliant!!!! 😂😂

[@werdna1969]

She took the news calmly

[@katiehazard4720]

I cannot love this enough. I was always on her side😂

[@amandalam7272]

I have been listening to this on repeat! The lyrics, the production, the comedy!

[@LuiWallentinGttler]

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.

[@kingbeauregard]

I don't know how many times I've listened to this since it went up. Easily a dozen, probably more.;

[@dinobucz]

Fabulous!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@BUDDYCB4]

The Hills are alive with the sound of bullshit😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@PatWashburn]

This is my very favorite thing on the Internet right now. Thank you!

[@JelaneJ]

This is awesome!

[@MarkMeader-e4r]

One Of Beautiful Riki’s Very Best, and So Worth Waiting For After 60 Years, My Beautiful Baroness Riki!!!!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️👩‍🦳👩‍🦳👩‍🦳👩‍🦳❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@marycatheri]

Damn that was a good breakup song! It slapped! I love Sound of Music, and this adds depth and deserved character support.

[@baron7755]

I love you, Riki

[@arielyemini4221]

This is brilliant I can't believe no one I know likes this musical enough to get how funny it is

[@kipmcmillan2600]

Having played Georg Von Trapp... this is BRILLIANT!!

[@JenniferKlumpp]

Okay, now do Meredith from the Parent Trap.

[@seventhhe4ven]

Thank you so much for posting again! I love your music so much. ❤

[@siiiriously3226]

as an Austrian I had to google that, cause "the soudn of music" is really not that popular or known here, and while i have seen it, once in a blue moon, i thought there was some real royal drama going on that i had totally missed out on. lol

[@UnapologeticallyLexi]

This is my first vid of yours and let’s just say you have a new subscriber! You’re amazing!

[@deborahblock-schwenk2907]

SO good!!!

[@Raggi86]

A delightfully fun song

[@girevka]

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. ❤

[@aircastles1013]

Masterpiece! About time she got to have her say! 😂😂😂

[@drsjjsmith]

Very glad this is about the purely fictional Baroness Schraeder and not the real-life Princess Yvonne!

[@DrMorganstien]

HAHA fantastic as always releasing this video while Wicked is still utterly sparkling in all the theaters is just *chefs kiss*

[@anthonyedavis]

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.

[@WilliamDancin]

The redemption arc we all needed!

[@vickiamundsen2933]

this is MAGNIFICENT

[@christopherbarnette8350]

God DAMN it, Riki, you're pretty good at this.

[@diana2063]

Riki, you never miss 🔥

[@adamschuler9423]

This is the best thing I never knew I needed.