Prologue: Once Upon A December – Nicole Scimeca & Mary Beth Peil (from “Anastasia (Original Broadway Cast Recording)” soundtrack)

[Little Anastasia:]
Why must you go, nana?

[Dowager Empress:]
I’ve stayed too long here

[Little Anastasia:]
Take me to Paris with you!

[Dowager Empress:]
Wherever I go, you’ll always be with me

[Anastasia gasps]

[Dowager Empress:]
Our lullaby. when you play it, think of an old woman who loves you very, very much

Far away, long ago
Glowing dim as an ember
Things my heart used to know
Things it yearns to remember

[Little Anastasia & Dowager Empress:]
And a song someone sings
Once upon a December