[ANYA, spoken]
How do you become the person you've forgotten you ever were?
[VLAD, spoken]
Take a deep breath.
Close your eyes, and imagine another time!
Another world.
(sung)
You were born in a palace by the sea
[DIMITRY]
A palace by the sea
[ANYA]
Could it be?
[VLAD]
Yes, it's so
You rode horseback when you were only three
[ANYA, spoken]
Horseback riding? Me?
[DIMITRY]
Horse's name?
[VLAD]
Romeo!
You threw tantrums and terrorized the cook!
Ha! How the palace shook!
[DIMITRY, spoken]
Charming child
[VLAD, spoken]
Wrote the book
(sung)
But you'd behave when you father gave that look
[DIMITRY]
Imagine how it was
Your long forgotten past
[VLAD & DIMITRY]
We've lots and lots to teach you and the time is going fast
[VLAD, spoken]
Let's see you walk. :
Head up! Regal bearing!
(sung)
Now, shoulders back and stand up tall
And do not walk, but try to float
[ANYA]
I feel a little foolish
Am I floating?
[DIMITRY]
Like a sinking boat!
[VLAD]
You give a bow
[ANYA]
What happens now?
[VLAD]
Your hand receives a kiss!
[VLAD & DIMITRY]
Most of all remember this:
[VLAD]
If I can learn to do it
You can learn to do it
[DIMITRY]
Something in you knows it
[VLAD & DIMITRY]
There's nothing to it!
[VLAD]
Follow in my footsteps
Shoe by shoe!
[VLAD & DMITRY]
You can learn to do it too!
[DIMITRY]
Now, elbows in and sit up straight
And do not slurp the stroganoff!
[ANYA, spoken]
I never cared for stroganoff!
[VLAD, spoken]
She said that like a Romanov!
[DIMITRY]
The Samovar
[VLAD]
The caviar
[ANYA]
Dessert and then goodnight?
[VLAD & DIMITRY]
Not until you get this right!
[VLAD]
If I can learn to do it
[DIMITRY]
If he can learn to do it
[VLAD]
You can learn to do it!
[DIMITRY]
You can learn to do it
[VLAD]
Pull yourself together
[VLAD & DIMITRY]
And you'll pull through it!
[VLAD]
Tell yourself it's easy
[VLAD & DIMITRY]
And it's true!
You can learn to do it too!
[VLAD, spoken]
Who is your great-grandmother?
[ANYA, spoken]
Queen Victoria
[VLAD, spoken]
Great-great grandmother?
[ANYA, spoken]
Uh... Princess Victoria of Saxe-Colburg-Saalfeld
[VLAD, spoken]
Your best friend is?
[ANYA, spoken]
My little brother, Alexei
[DIMITRY, spoken]
Wrong! Your best friend is—
[ANYA, spoken]
I know who my best friend is!
[DIMITRY, spoken]
What a temper!
[ANYA, spoken]
I don't like being contradicted!
[DIMITRY, spoken]
That makes two of us!
[VLAD, spoken]
Continuing on...
[ANYA]
I've had it, and I hate you both
I'm sorry that we ever met
I'm hungry, I'm frightened
And I'm only human, don't forget!
I don't remember anything
Get out and let me be!
[VLAD]
Anya, darling, look at me...
We're all frightened
Well, slightly, now and then
Shall we start again?
Take a breath, count to ten
You have courage
And strength you barely know
So blow that little nose
And dry those pretty eyes
A princess like your majesty
Can do this if she tries!
Ready?
[DIMITRY, spoken]
Set
[ANYA, spoken]
Go!
[VLAD]
Now here's your great Aunt Olga
[DIMITRY]
How she frolicked on the Volga
[ANYA, spoken]
Oh!
[VLAD]
Your distant cousin, Vanya loved his vodka
[DIMITRY]
Got it, Anya?
[ANYA]
No!
[VLAD]
The Duke of Oldenburgh was short!
[DIMITRY]
Louise of Boden
[ANYA]
Had a—
[DIMITRY]
Wart!
[VLAD]
Count Sergei
[DIMITRY]
Wore a feathered hat
[VLAD]
I hear he's gotten very fat
[ANYA]
And I recall his yellow cat!
[VLAD, spoken]
I don't believe we told her that...
[VLAD & DIMITRY]
If you can learn to do it
[ANYA]
If I can learn to do it!
[VLAD & DMITRY]
He can learn to do it
[ANYA]
You can learn to do it!
[VLAD & DIMITRY]
Pull yourself together
[ANYA, VLAD & DIMITRY]
And we'll pull through it!
[VLAD]
Tell yourself it's easy
[ANYA, VLAD & DIMITRY]
And it's true
[VLAD & DIMITRY]
You can learn to do it
[ANYA]
Nothing to it!
[ANYA, VLAD & DIMITRY]
You can learn to do it...
[ANYA, spoken]
The caviar, the stroganoff, the Samovar, the feathered hat
The cousin drank, the duke was short, here a wart and there a cat.
The horse's name was Romeo, so tell me something new
[VLAD & DIMITRY]
Ha!
[ANYA, VLAD & DIMITRY]
You can learn to do it, too!
