SCENE SEVEN
1927: THE FINLAND STATION
(PASSENGERS are seen entering the station, with luggage. They are ready to leave Russia for good. An announcement can be heard in the background.)
(VLAD and DMITRY enter. ANYA enters shortly after them,and they wave her over.)
VLAD
It's a special train. Aristocrats and intellectuals. Everyone the Bolsheviks want to be rid of. We'll be traveling as members of the Diagelf Ballet Russe. They've taken Paris by storm.
(He hands them their tickets from his coat pocket. COUNT IPOLITOV enters the stage. He sees ANYA
And stops, then kneels to her and kisses her hand. Everyone around looks inquisitively.)
COUNT IPOLITOV
(to ANYA)
God bless you.
(He gets up and leaves her without another word.)
VLAD
I recognize that man. He's the Count Ipolitov. He's not just an aristocrat, but an intellectual as well.
He's a dead man on both counts.
(A whistle blows and overhead an announcement about the train leaving is heard. It is time to go. Everyone gets ready to leave, but no one does.)
VLAD (cont.)
We should go.
#11 STAY I PRAY YOU
COUNT IPOLITOV
HOW CAN I DESERT YOU
HOW TO TELL YOU WHY
COACHMEN HOLD THE HORSES
STAY, I PRAY YOU
LET ME HAVE A MOMENT
LET ME SAY GOODBYE
TO BRIDGE AND RIVER
FOREST AND WATERFALL
ORCHARD, SEA, AND SKY
HARSH AND SWEET
AND BITTER TO LEAVE IT ALL
ENSEMBLE
I'LL BLESS MY HOMELAND
TILL I DIE
HOW TO BREAK THE TIDE
WE HAVE SHED OUR TEARS
AND SHARED OUR SORROWS
THOUGH THE SCARS REMAIN
AND TEARS WILL NEVER DRY
I'LL BLESS MY HOMELAND
TILL I DIE
ANYA
NEVER TO RETURN
DMITRY
FINALLY BREAKING FREE
ANYA & DMITRY
YOU ARE ALL I KNOW
YOU HAVE RAISED ME
VLAD
HOW TO TURN AWAY
HOW TO CLOSE THE DOOR
ANYA, DMITRY, & VLAD
HOW TO GO WHERE I HAVE
NEVER GONE BEFORE
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Anastasia Revisioned
RomanceThis is kinda not(?) a fanfiction, but a retelling of a mashup of Disney and Broadway's Anastasia. In playwriting format. --- Anya, a girl suffering from amnesia, doesn't remember her past. Her only clue to it is to go to Paris. She teams up with tw...
