The psychology behind expanding and deepening
Frozen Broadway was that we looked at families who
get frozen into roles and Elsa's childhood wound
was this shame that had her in secrecy or the parents
working to help sort of fixate that shame.
Anna was left to her own devices alone,
knocking on doors, just trying to figure out what's going
on alone. And so her wound is really tied to
this feeling of knocking on doors and just hoping
they'll open so she can have a connection
with the people that she loves.
When we looked at at writing this song for this slot,
here she was again behind a door looking at a locked
door just begging for it to open and it's this moment of
discovery and awakening to this pattern that she had
of connecting this need for this door to
open to the choices that she's made connecting
that lonely little girl to that girl who bought into all of
those princess, princess stories, that a man
comes along and with one kiss it's all solved,
and you're never alone again.
And she starts doing the math with this song
so it made sense for there to be echoes
in the music of "Do You Want to Build a Snowman."
It really comes at the very beginning of the song
and then again at the end.
The opening of "Do You Want to Build a Snowman" goes
Elsa?
It's snowing!
Elsa?
[knocking]
Do you want to build a snowman?
So when we were thinking what would be a
good intro for this, I said what about,
what if we took that and just went
which, to me, sounds a little bit more grown-up
and reflective
I've sat alone in this room before
Hours and hours on end
Anna is a Disney princess, a little
she's got, she's Kristen Bell's voice
informs a lot of our choices with Anna
to begin with. She has that little light mix that's
got a ping to it.
And thats related to Ariel and Belle, you know,
the "Part of your World" and Belle like,
"There goes the Baker with his tray like always"
it's that ping, the frontal ping.
Don't know if I'm elated or gassy, but I'm
somewhere in that zone.
Even her melodies are not as
big and soaring or it she's not, she's not
really a belter. I'm, like,
"Nothing's in my way"
That's Anna. she's she's the Disney Princess with a
modern twist.
We definitely kept this one low in her voice.
"True Love" is low because she's dying,
she has no energy, I mean she's freezing to death
I know this delusion of wish the door
Would open to reveal a friend
It's also shell-shocked. It's a little,
I mean if if you listen to the accompaniment, it's a
lot of whole notes to try and get that shell-shocked
"I sat alone in this room before
Hours and hours on end"
Like she's putting together the pictures of a memory
and trying to do the math of where she is,
and the music is sort of doing the math as well.
And here I am in this room again
Just as lost and small
That lonely girl with a desperate heart
Is who I am after all
In the process of finding the song
we started with a much more,
we tried to paint the despair into the music
which I think was not, well it was
interesting, but I don't think it was right.
It shows up in "Colder By the Minute"
Colder by the minute
Keep walking Anna, don't stop, don't rest
He's out here somewhere
I can feel the ice in my chest
In my heart
I don't care
Speaking of a cool twist that we could that we could pull
in the "Colder by the Minute" part
But I also thought when we found the more major,
the less angular melody, it didn't have these jumps
There was something about making on a, take
big jumps and having to think about her voice
that we didn't want to do. We really wanted it to be like
someone thinking to themselves, basically
How did I get here? I know how I got here,
Look at that, it's that little girl making that choice
I did this. Like that was, that was the process.
I know this solitude
I know this kind of cold
But I had faith in what the stories told
Of true love
How I'd find true love
I hope you haven't had this experience.
I know I have, where you've made some adult
choices and gone, well yep yep
that ties to this ties to this and I can learn
from this and make a different choice next time.
I think that's that's what she's doing.
I was looking for a fairy tale
And dove headfirst into his
Turns out you can't find love
If you don't know what it is
Turns out you can't find love if you don't know what it is
Like, it's one of my favorite moments in the show
And how patty does it,
Like Patty knows this feeling.
I can't watch her sing it without crying with her
because she's been there and and you know
through Patty that she's feeling this pain
and knows what it's like to want love so badly
and not know how to get it
Dreaming got me here and yet the dream won't die
I can't wish it away
No matter how I try
True love