Alexandra Ushakova

In a New York night lounge bar in the 1950s, Lily performs on stage. Her husband watches her, filled with pride — unaware that at that very moment the thief has set his eyes on Lily, and that within an hour he will be murdered near a boathouse in Central Park.

Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanov — according to legend, the Grand Duchess who survived the execution and partially lost her memory due to trauma. Many years later, on the streets of Bolshevik St. Petersburg, she begins to remember who she truly is.

Dolly Winslow, arriving in Stalinist Russia in 1935 as part of a U.S. ambassadorial delegation, is mistakenly sent to a remote Siberian steppe, where she astonishes Russian peasants and the local authorities with her performance of "My Heart Belongs to Daddy."

It's a story of finding yourself in a world that judges and rejects. Cinderella is tired of living inside someone else's fairytale. Labeled as "bad" for being different, she refuses to change who she is to fit society's expectations but choosing truth over approval, and herself over perfection.

"Never Enough" is a song about how fame and riches can't substitute for love and kindness. The song was inspired by an opera star Jenny Lind — who gave most of her fortune to charity and girl's education. The Swedish Nightingale, as Christian Andersen named her, she was a muse to Chopin and Schumann.

This is a comic song about a woman who knows she's a star and believes she can sing the leading soprano lines, even if she's never been given the chance. She has spent her entire life singing harmony in the choir, and she's had enough of it. She begs for just one chance to sing the melody and finally shine.

My husband wakes up from a nightmare, terrified and disoriented. He is terminally ill, and at night his fear of dying returns. I tell him it was just a dream and that he is safe with me. As always, he starts talking about practical things — about the roof, the shingles, and how many years they still have left. I sing to comfort him and to say what truly matters: I don't need a roof — I only need to be with him.

Anne Boleyn received an excellent education at the French royal court under Queen Claude of France. She studied literature, music, and art and grew up in the rich cultural atmosphere of the Renaissance among great artists and thinkers such as Leonardo da Vinci. In England she became the wife of King Henry VIII and the mother of the future Queen Elizabeth I. In order to marry Anne, the king broke with the Roman Catholic Church and established the Church of England. However, because she did not give birth to a son, she lost the king's favor and was accused of witchcraft, adultery, and incest. In 1536 she was beheaded at the Tower of London.