Anastasia Lines

Dowager: Is he gone?

your imperial Majesty

Dowager: My precious Anastasia

She doesnt hear me.

Serge: Good evening countess Lily.

the only thins good about it is that it means one day less. Im being Russian sergei. I love life... Count Gregory, how was the ballet

Countess Gregory: Youll be there, Lily, with her imperial Majesty

But of course, a lady in waiting's life is never her own.

Exiled Russian: Thank god for the neva club. st petersberg on the seine

Only a fool would go back. My Husband was very sorry he did. There were ten families living in our ballroom alone. There were chickens in our wine cellar. It's not the russia he remembered

Leopold: Which one? we have so many

It doesn't matter. they all say the same thing. Past glories, present griefs

End of land of yesterday

Vlad popov! I thought the Bolsheviks put you in front of a firing squad

2.3 Opening of scene

I'm sorry Count Leopold

Leopold: She can't always be resting. the Dowager Empress knows I have important papers for her to sign.

Papers designating you as heir to the Romanov fortune. she will never sign them

Leopold: She is an old woman who has outlived her place in history. Anastasia is a pathetic figment of her imagination. Eventually, I will be recognized as the sole beneficiary of the Tsar's estate be an international court of law.

I'll tell her majesty you called.

Leopold: You'll be at the Neva club this evening, Lily?

Along with every other white Russian in Paris

Leopold: I will want the first Charleston

Ive given up dancing for lent

Leopold: Lent just ended

Next lent, I'm getting a head start

Dowager: he's like a dog with a bone, that one

only 4 letters today

Dowager: If only I could lose hope entirely. I used to open each one with a beating heart. Could this be my precious Anastasia? But after so many disapointments, Ive come to dread the daily post. Another day Another imposter

I wont let you give up

Dowager: Dearest Lily, I know I am a proud and difficult woman, You are the only one I've allowed to see what's become of me. I was Maria Fyodovona Romanov, Empress of all Russia. You can't possibly know what that means Lily.

Your majesty, remember our happy summers in Livadia...

Dowager: Livadia! they all do their homework

Strange and bizzare events have brought me to Buenos Aires. Bring me to Paris and I will convince you I am anastasia

Dowager: She wants me to pay her passage. At least that little imposter from Cleaveland paid her own way. What is Cleveland? I never heard of such a place. It sounds dreadful, Cleveland

Dearest Grandmama, if I may call you that, You majesty

Dowager: I was never Grandmama, i was nana, only nana. Grandmama, they play me for a fool. Give me those... No more letters, no more imposters

There will be other young women. What shall I tell them

Dowager: tell the theyre too late. The Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov is dead and the Dowager Empress is dead with her. Leave me

I'll light the lamps. Will you be all right this evening?

Vlad: They did, but when they gave the order none of them could pull the trigger.

I can't imagine why not

Vlad: I still melt hearts, ma chere, just as you sill melt mine. I crossed a continent for this moment

Still up to your old tricks

vlad: Admit your happy to see me

I’m glad your not dead but that's as far as i’m prepared to go... what are you doing in Paris

Vlad: Didnt you get my letter

And i promply tore it up

Vlad: Youve grown hard, my darling lily

No harder than need be

Vlad: My precious lily

I’m not the only you remember vlad

Vlad: no, your even lovelier than I remember. My hot blooded, senusal, passionate mistress

that was then, when the world was beautiful

vlad: Well making is beautiful again - in Paris, the city of lovers

If only we could

Vlad: Ever since that first day I saw you in court, I knew I was beneath you

You were right darling, you were

After countess and the common man

I’m waiting for you to kiss me again

Vlad: Gladly, but first there's a young woman I want you to meet.

That's all

Vlad: There'll be someone at the ballet on Monday who will want to meet her, too.

Who is that

Vlad: the Dowager Empress. We're going to change history Lily.

sing reprise

End of Quartet

The finest and driest champagne they have, of course, your majesty

Vlad: Is she in a good mood

she's never in a good mood. What have you talked me into

Vlad: Wait till you see her

Your highness

Vlad: That composure! We did a good job Dmitry

I don't want to get your hopes up, young Lady

Dmitry: You will announce the grand duchess Anastasia Nikolaeva Romanov

You have a visitor, Your Majesty

Anya: That i was a pawn i a scheme of yours? That you made me think I might be someone i never was or ever will be. I was cold and hungry and desperate when I met you, Dmitry, but I wasn't dishonest. I hate you for that.

I'm Sorry, young man

Dowager: That is no longer a concern of mine. Russia damned itself to eternity for what is has done

You're tiring her

Dmitry: God will judge you harshly, old woman. History already has

He turned his back on you

Dowager: I remember you.

Quit while your ahead Vlad

Dowager: I dont like that man

He's not so bad... yes, he is your majesty, he's a terrible person

After Neva flows reprise

She'll turn up but why would she disappear in the first place? You've accepted her as the heir to the romanov fortune. She'll live like a queen, even though people don't want queens anymore. Well, the English do, but they're crazy.

Dowager: I think we have seen that last of that young woman. lily

Was she Anastasia?