<Tr> <Th> Lyricist (s) </Th> <Td> Oscar Hammerstein II </Td> </Tr> <P> "Maria", sometimes known as "How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?" is a show tune from the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, The Sound of Music . </P> <P> This song is sung by the nuns at Nonnberg Abbey, who are exasperated with Maria for being too frivolous and frolicsome for the decorous and austere life at the Abbey . </P> <P> This song gave its title to Andrew Lloyd Webber's reality TV series How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?, in which TV viewers voted for a contestant to play the lead role of Maria von Trapp in his London revival of The Sound of Music . Connie Fisher won the TV series and was cast as Maria in the London revival of the show that opened in November 2006 at the London Palladium . </P>

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