The run closed December 11, 1965
- Opened
- November 19, 1965
- Closed
- December 11, 1965
- Performances
- 16
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Ziegfeld Theatre
Of the 603 productions we hold that opened in the 1960s and record a performance count, this is the 400th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it41 named
Boris Aplon
Jack Dabdoub
Elizabeth Howell
Margaret Mullen
Michael Quinn
Karen Shepard
Ed Steffe
Barbara Alexander
Kip Andrews
Darrell Askey
Steven Boockvor
Lawrence Boyll
Ciya Challis
Randy Doney
Juliette Durand
Bernard Frank
Laurie Franks
Les Freed
Horace Guittard
Patricia Hoffman
Walter Hook
Howard Kahl
Adair Mcgowan
Rita Metzger
Joseph Nelson
Richard Nieves
J Vernon Oaks
Konstantin Pio Ulsky
Mia Powers
Lourette Raymon
Robert Sharp
Diane Tarleton
Maggie Task
8 of these 41 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 33 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.
Creative team
- Director
- George Abbott
- Choreographer
- Hanya Holm
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
Anya is a musical with a book by George Abbott and Guy Bolton and music and lyrics by Robert Wright and George Forrest. As they had done with Song of Norway (1944) and Kismet (1953), Wright and Forrest developed the musical score using themes written by a classical composer, in this case Sergei Rachmaninoff. Based on Bolton's 1954 English adaptation of Marcelle Maurette's 1952 play Anastasia and the subsequent 1956 film adaptation of the same name, it focuses on Anya who, when discovered in a Berlin psychiatric facility in 1925 by taxi driver Bounine, a former Cossack general in Czarist Russia, claims to be Anastasia, the supposedly murdered youngest daughter of Emperor Nicholas II. A number…
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 character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- No recording is held for Anya at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.