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Anastasia: The New Broadway Musical

Anastasia

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In the wake of the Russian Revolution, a brave young woman named Anya, suffering from amnesia, joins two con men who plan to pass her off as the lost Grand Duchess Anastasia to collect a reward from the Dowager Empress in Paris. As Anya's memories slowly return during their perilous journey from St. Petersburg to Paris, she must discover whether she is truly the last Romanov — and whether love and identity can surviv…

Opened
2017
Performances
808
Type
Musical
Era
Contemporary
Music: Stephen FlahertyLyrics: Lynn AhrensBook: Terrence McNally

Productions2 on Broadway

1954 Lyceum Theatre Original. December 29, 1954 · Alan Schneider · predates this show 272 performances
2017 Broadhurst Theatre Revival. April 24, 2017 · Darko Tresnjak 808 performances

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In the literature10 passages

After an appearance in the movie Anastasia Hayes returned to Broadway in Jean Anouilh’s Time Remem- book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p246

Viveca Lindfors portrayed the title role in Anastasia (12/29/54; 272 performances), written by Broadway veteran Guy Bolton. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p345

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. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p80

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. book:show-tunes-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-broadway-s-suskin-steven-suskin-steven#p411

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. book:the-musicals-no-one-come-to-see-a-guidebook-to-four-simas-simas-garland-referenc#p26

His first three movies after The King and I in 1956 were the all-star biblical epic The Ten Commandments (1956, in which he played an other king, Egyptian Pharaoh Rameses); Anastasia (also 1956); and an adaptation of Dostoyevski's The Brothers Karamazov (1958, as Dmitri Karamazov). book:i-m-the-greatest-star-broadway-s-top-musical-legends-from-1900-to-today-robert-v#p223

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