VOICES ON The flows, A new blows, And it will be spring...
We hear you, comrades, the Revolution hears you. Together we will forge a new Russia that be the envy of all the world. The Tsar's St. Petersburg is now the people's Leningrad.
They can call it but it will always be Petersburg. New name, same empty stomachs.
tell us times are better. Well, I say not! Can't cook an promise In an pot.
"A day is dawning. almost at hand!" The skies are gray, the have ears And he who disappears!
AND ENSEMBLE: Hail our new land!
St. is booming! A on the rise!
It's really friendly...
WOMAN: If you don't spies!
FIRST We stand our leaders.
SECOND And stand in for bread!
We're and loyal comrades And our fav'rite red!
Now is equal. Professors the brooms.
AND ALL: Two dozen total Live in two rooms. You hold a And the price you pay!
Thank for the gossip
Спасибо слухи! (Spasibo za slukhi!)
Thank for the gossip... That us through the day! Hey!
Have you a rumor in St. Petersburg. Have you What they're on the street?
SOLO the Tsar did not survive, One daughter may be still
The Anastasia!
But do not repeat!
a rumor, A legend, A mystery. Something whispered in an Or a crack. It's a part of our history.
SOLO say her royal grandmamma Will pay a sum
To someone who can bring the back!
They've closed another border. We should have gotten out of Russia we still could.
St. Petersburg was When was in. I called myself a As I'd always been! I hobnobbed with the But then, a change of The was dead, The fled And comrade, now stuck!
Vlad, I've been thinking the Princess Anastasia.
Not you, too, Dmitry.
the rumor, The legend, The mystery! It's the Anastasia Who help us fly! You and I, fiend, Will go In history. We'll a girl to play the part And her what to say, Dress her up and her to Paree!
Imagine the Her dear old grandmama pay!
DMITRY AND Who else pull it off but you and me!
No!!
It was a truck backfiring, comrade, that's all it was. Those days are over: neighbor against neighbor. There's to be afraid of anymore. You're shaking. There's a tea shop just steps from here. Let me...
you.
What's your
I can't lose this job. They're not to come by. But thank you.
I'm here day.
MARKETEER #1: A ruble for painting! Romanov, I swear!
BLACK #2: Count pajamas, Comrade, buy the pair!
MARKETEER #3: I found in a palace Initialed an "A"- It be Anastasia's! Now what will someone
We something others to show the old lady. How much is that music box?
MARKETEER: Ah, the music box! It's genuine Romanov: I could part with it.
Two of beans, comrade?
MARKETEER: Done!
Do you in fairy tales, Vlad?
Once a time I did
Were going to create a fairytale the whole will believe. Now, risky, But not more usual. We'll papers, need tickets, We'll nerves of steel!
Yes, it's - A lot more usual!
We'll try to cross the our princess and our plot!
Hopefully won't ensue!
With luck it all goes
And with luck, we be shot!
DMITRY AND Who could pull it off But me and you?
be rich!
be rich!
be out!
be out!
And St. will Have some more to about!
1: I heard it a person
GROUP 1 AND 2: I heard it A who Assured me it was true!
DMITRY, AND ALL: Sshh!
Have you There's a in St. Petersburg! Have you Comrade, what do you
A mystery.
The con in history!
DMITRY, AND ALL: The Anastasia,
or dead...
DMITRY, AND ALL: Who
AND VLAD: Sshh!