IM FEELING WHAT I FEEL FOR YOU

1. Surround yourself with people whose eyes light up when they see you coming.

2. Slowly is the fastest way to get to the place you want to be.

Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty on Christy and Derek’s ANASTASIA audition singing duet “In a Crowd of Thousands”:

Flaherty:

It wasn’t like they were acting.  It was like they were actually being. They were those characters. I felt like we were sort of eavesdropping on a very intimate moment between two people’s lives as opposed to watching two actors perform a scene.   It seemed absolutely thrilling.  And there was no discussion.  We knew we had found our two leads.  

Ahrens:

Boils down to

the ensemble singing those lines from The Neva Flows with Ramin FUCKING Karimloo Gleb talking on top of it

“They can call it LeninGRAD, but it’ll always BE Petersburg!”

the large collective “shhh” at the end of A Rumor In St. Petersburg

the way Christy sings “and I hear a voice whisper I’ll meet you right there” that line will actually be the death of me tbfh

everything about Learn To Do It

yes, I mean everything

“Am I floating?” “Like a sinking boat”

“I’VE HAD IT and I hate you both, I’m sorry that we ever met!”

Ramin Karimloo is just great ok

“Could I have pulled the trigger if I’d been told?”

My Petersburg is a blessing

“…but tonight, there’s a sky and quiiiite a view”

the background harmonies in the middle of Once Upon A December cleansed my soul

all the harmonies in Stay I Pray You are blessed

“this chaaance” “this chaaance” “is allllllllllll” “is allllllllll I’ve gooooooot, keep a grip and take a deep breath and”

the end of We’ll Go From There is so pure

Ramin Karimloo

“a son becomes a man at his father’s kneeeeee”

“I’m innocent she cries but then you see her eyes and something in them tells you that she absolutely liiiiiiiies”

tbh Ramin could punch me in the face and I’d thank him

Journey To The Past is just iconic k

“Home, love, faaaaamily”

“Do you really think I might be her?” “I WANT to believe you’re the little girl I saw once so many years ago.”