Do You Want to Build a Snowman? (Commentary)

You want to build a Snowman It's really the same song as, as in the movie But in a way it's changed a lot Because in the movies, um, you can do a montage Montage is a series of scenes cut to show a long period of time And that's what the song really is But on stage you can't really do montage It doesn't translate as well So we had to make the, uh, the sections a little bit longer And em, we have the little girls, instead of showing young Anna Then teenage Anna, then, um, adult, Anna We really only have young Anna for the first two verses And then we (and then we) Fast-forward ten years Then the parents die, but the parents die on stage They now die when they are children And the girls, um, there is a line that helps you realize Why we have to wait several years until Elsa is coroneted But then we get, we see grown up Anna We had to change those lyrics to the night before the coronation Rather than what you get in the movie The final lyrics are the day of their parents' funeral Um, so that was one change The original impulse for this song was always Painting the picture of loneliness, of division in the childhood What it feels like to be alone and left out So we wanted to write a song that captured a lifetime of that And a lifetime of reaching out and saying, somebody come and play