Stephen Flaherty & Lynn Aherns
Prologue / Once Upon a December
[Little Anastasia, spoken]
Why must you go, Nana?

[Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna, spoken]
I've stayed too long here.

[Little Anastasia, spoken]
Take me to Paris with you.

[Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna, spoken]
Wherever I go, you'll always be with me.

[Music box plays]

[Little Anastasia]
[Gasps]

[Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna, spoken]
Our lullaby. When you play it, think of an old woman who loves you very, very much.

[Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna, sung]
Far away, and long ago,
Glowing dim as an ember.
Things my heart used to know,
Things it yearns to remember.

[Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna and Little Anastasia]
And a song someone sings,
Once upon a December.