The run closed March 31, 2019
- Opened
- April 24, 2017
- Closed
- March 31, 2019
- Performances
- 808
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Broadhurst Theatre
Of the 426 productions we hold that opened in the 2010s and record a performance count, this is the 21st longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Anastasia 1 more that season
| 1954 | Lyceum Theatre Original · Alan Schneider | 272 perf. |
Who was in it34 named
Janet Dickinson
Constantine Germanacos
Wes Hart
Ken Krugman
James A Pierce Iii
Johnny Stellard
Allison Walsh
Beverly Ward
Vicki Lewis
Gail Bennett
Maria Briggs
Justin Scott Brown
Colby Dezelick
Bruce Landry
Kevin Munhall
Delilah Rose Pellow
Alexandra Pernice
Kelli Youngman
16 of these 34 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 18 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Characters6 roles recorded
Lila Coogan Anya / Anastasia
Stephen Brower Dmitry Sudayev
Edward Staudenmayer Vladimir "Vlad" Popov
Ramin Karimloo Deputy Commissioner Gleb Vaganov
Tari Kelly Countess Lily Malevsky-Malevitch
Joy Franz Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- Darko Tresnjak
- Choreographer
- Peggy Hickey
- Orchestrations
- Doug
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Around this production
Anastasia is a musical play with music and lyrics by Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens, and a book by Terrence McNally. Based on the 20th Century Fox Animation 1997 film of the same name, the musical adapts the legend of the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, who was rumored to have escaped and survived the execution of the Russian Imperial family. Many years later, an amnesiac young woman named Anya hopes to find some trace of her past by siding with two con men, who wish to take advantage of her resemblance to Anastasia. After completing a pre-Broadway run in Hartford, Connecticut in 2016, the show premiered on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre in April 2017, and since then it h…
- After an appearance in the movie Anastasia Hayes returned to Broadway in Jean Anouilh’s Time Remem- Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 246
- Viveca Lindfors portrayed the title role in Anastasia (12/29/54; 272 performances), written by Broadway veteran Guy Bolton. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 345
- The 1965 Anastasia musical, by the way, was successful in closing down the Ziegfeld—which opened in 1927 with another mish-mash Guy Bolton operetta, Rio Rita. More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 80
- While waiting for the Broadway premiére of RAGTIME [January 18, 1998]—which had already established itself as a major hit during its pre-Broadway stands in Toronto and Los Angeles—Flaherty and Ahrens wrote the score for the 1997 animated movie musical Anastasia. Show Tunes the Songs Shows and Careers of Broadway S Suskin Steven Suskin Steven, p. 411
- In 1980, under the title I, Anastasia, Music Theatre International added to its catalogue the musical Anya (adapted from the play Anastasia) some fifteen years after the show was produced on Broadway. The Musicals No One Come To See A Guidebook To Four Simas Simas Garland Referenc, p. 26
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No recording is held for Anastasia at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.