The run closed October 4, 1992
- Opened
- August 26, 1992
- Closed
- October 4, 1992
- Performances
- 46
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Circle in the Square Theatre
Of the 368 productions we hold that opened in the 1990s and record a performance count, this is the 233rd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Anna Karenina 2 more that season
| 1905 | Fifth Avenue Theatre Original | |
| 1907 | Herald Square Theatre Revival | 47 perf. |
Who was in it17 named
Jeremy Black
Jo Ann Cunningham
Naz Edwards
Larry Hansen
Billy Hipkins
Amelia Prentice
Darcy Pulliam
Erik Houston Saari
9 of these 17 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 8 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.
Characters9 roles recorded
Ann Crumb Anna Karenina
Gregg Edelman Konstantin Levin
John Cunningham Alexei Karenin
Melissa Errico Kitty Alexandrovna
Jerry Lanning Stiva Arkadyevich
Scott Wentworth Alexis Vronsky
Erik Houston Saari Seryozha Karenin
Gabriel Barre Korunsky
Darcy Pulliam Annushka
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
- Theodore Mann
- Choreographer
- Kenneth Rinker
- Orchestrations
- Peter Matz
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.
Recordings 3 held for the work
None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against Anna Karenina, and nothing in the record says which production any of them documents. Closing that join is the point of this catalogue and it is not closed yet.
Around this production
Anna Karenina is a 1992 musical with a book and lyrics by Peter Kellogg and music by Daniel Levine. Based on the classic 1877 Leo Tolstoy novel of the same name, it focuses on the tragic title character, a fashionable but unhappily married woman, and her ill-fated liaison with Count Vronsky, which ultimately leads to her downfall.
The critics were mostly dismissive of the new musical and it was gone in six weeks. The Complete Book of 1990s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Paxton Mcnallie 2016 Rowm, p. 109
- a musical version of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina by Peter Kellogg and Daniel Levine was also dismissed by the critics, with one of them rating it "One Czar." At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 336
- In 2006, a recording of the score was issued by LML Music Records (CD # LML-CD-217) with Melissa Errico in the title role (for Broadway, she had created the role of Kitty and had understudied Anna) and Gregg Edelman as Levin, the role he played on Broadway. The Complete Book of 1990s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Paxton Mcnallie 2016 Rowm, p. 110
- He also adapted several classic novels for CBS television: Dickens’s Oliver Twist (1982) and Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina (1985). The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia Rick Pender Rowman Littlefield Publishing Lanh, p. 312
- Virginia Harned was starring in “Anna Karenina,” a drama based on Tolstoi’s novel, with Robert Warwick and Elliott Dexter. A Pictorial History of the American Theatre 1860 1985 Blum, p. 99
- Fred and Adele Astaire Award for Outstanding Choreography in a Feature Film: Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Anna Karenina The Playbill Broadway Yearbook June 2012 To May 2013 Robert Viagas 9th Annual Ed, p. 433
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.
- Which of the 3 recordings of Anna Karenina document this run, if any.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.