VOICES ON The flows, A new blows, And soon it be spring...
We hear you, comrades, the Revolution hears you. Together we will forge a new Russia that will be the envy of all the world. The Tsar's St. Petersburg is now the Leningrad.
They can call it Leningrad but it will always be Petersburg. New name, empty stomachs.
They us times are better. Well, I say not! cook an empty promise In an pot.
"A day is dawning. It's at hand!" The are gray, the walls have ears And he who disappears!
AND ENSEMBLE: Hail our new land!
St. is booming! A on the rise!
It's very friendly...
WOMAN: If you don't spies!
FIRST We stand our leaders.
SECOND And stand in for bread!
We're good and loyal And our color's red!
Now is equal. Professors the brooms.
DMITRY AND 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!
you heard? There's a in St. Petersburg. Have you What they're saying on the
SOLO Although the did not survive, One may be still alive—
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 They say her royal pay a royal sum
To someone who can bring the back!
They've closed another border. We should gotten out of Russia while we still could.
St. Petersburg was When was in. I called a count As though I'd been! I with the royals 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 will us fly! You and I, fiend, Will go In history. We'll find a girl to the part And teach her to say, her up and take her to Paree!
Imagine the Her old grandmama would pay!
AND VLAD: Who could 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 nothing to be afraid of anymore. You're shaking. There's a tea just steps from here. Let me...
you.
What's hurry?
I can't lose this job. not easy to come by. But thank you.
I'm every day.
MARKETEER #1: A ruble for painting! Romanov, I swear!
BLACK #2: Yusupov's pajamas, Comrade, buy the pair!
BLACK #3: I found this in a with an "A"- It be Anastasia's! Now will someone pay?
We need something others to show the old lady. How is that music box?
BLACK Ah, the music box! It's genuine I could never part with it.
Two cans of beans,
MARKETEER: Done!
Do you in fairy tales, Vlad?
Once a time I did
Were going to a fairytale the whole world will believe. Now, risky, But not than usual. We'll papers, We'll tickets, We'll need of steel!
Yes, risky - A lot than usual!
We'll try to cross the With our and our plot!
Hopefully won't ensue!
With luck it all smoothly
And with luck, we be shot!
AND VLAD: 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 it from a person
1 AND GROUP 2: I heard it A who me it was absolutely true!
DMITRY, AND ALL: Sshh!
you heard? There's a in St. Petersburg! you heard Comrade, do you suppose?
A mystery.
The con in history!
DMITRY, VLAD AND The Anastasia,
or dead...
DMITRY, AND ALL: Who
AND VLAD: Sshh!