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Still, what moviegoers sometimes crave most is an old-fashioned, crowd-pleasing anthem.

The galvanizing anthem, written for the film by Stephen Schwartz, was a technical and emotional feat.

Under Nicholas’s reign, the Russian national anthem was “God Save the Tsar,” and the Russian national opera was A Life for the Tsar: A Patriotic Heroic-Tragic Opera.

After a few choruses of “All Hail to the Land Incorrigible,” the national anthem that they began making up on the spot, all three children finally declined and fell into their beds.

The other newly added song, “No Place Like Home,” empowers Erivo to turn Judy Garland’s famous line into a radicalized political anthem.