ANASTASIA Reviews

[LimelightMike]

ANASTASIA Reviews#1

Posted: 4/24/17 at 9:39am

[disneybroadwayfan22]

ANASTASIA Reviews#2

Posted: 4/24/17 at 9:53am

Guessing it's going to get mixed/positive like Hartford. Wishing them all the best!

[A Canadian in NYC]

ANASTASIA Reviews#3

Posted: 4/24/17 at 10:39am

Excited for this one!  Happy opening night to cast and crew! 

[showbizkid2]

ANASTASIA Reviews#4

Posted: 4/24/17 at 10:42am

I think they are going to need a lot of luck!! I saw it last week and from the cheap set to dreadful staging and decisions like to cut Rasputin and add Gleb? I don't think it will be on at Christmas. Such a shame as the cast were very good! 

[BroadwayConcierge]

ANASTASIA Reviews#5

Posted: 4/24/17 at 10:44am

Really hoping it'll be a Brantley piece for this big production, but I'm unsure, given how many openings there are in this two-week span.

[curel1]

ANASTASIA Reviews#6

Posted: 4/24/17 at 10:51am

showbizkid2 said: "I think they are going to need a lot of luck!! I saw it last week and from the cheap set to dreadful staging and decisions like to cut Rasputin and add Gleb? I don't think it will be on at Christmas. Such a shame as the cast were very good! 

 

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You are really underestimating how popular this show is.

 

Anyway, hope it gets some great reviews!

[Justin D]

ANASTASIA Reviews#7

Posted: 4/24/17 at 12:36pm

I wish them all the best and am looking forward to seeing it next weekend, but I just cant help but think that this whole project is 20 years too late.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/27199361@N08/ Phantom at the Royal Empire Theatre

[bwayrose7]

ANASTASIA Reviews#8

Posted: 4/24/17 at 3:56pm

Wishing this show the very best of opening nights! Hoping for some good reviews - excited to see what the evening brings! 

[Trish2]

ANASTASIA Reviews#9

Posted: 4/24/17 at 7:03pm

Matthew Murray is mixed, but leans on the positive here and there.

"For all these smart changes, however, this Anastasia fails to completely escape the influence of its cartoony forebear. "

"The performers all work hard, but except for Mary Beth Peil, who plays the Dowager Countess, their style is hard-sell 2017 Broadway that never quite sits comfortably, let alone elegantly, on the material."

ANASTASIA

[Chicken_Flavor]

ANASTASIA Reviews#10

Posted: 4/24/17 at 7:34pm

For people who have watched it, how much stage time does "Young Anya" get? Also, isn't the audience full of people in their mid-twenties who like the movie?

[disneybroadwayfan22]

ANASTASIA Reviews#11

Posted: 4/24/17 at 7:39pm

Literally only at the beginning and the end. The little actress then plays Alexi for two scenes and a child in the train scenes. And when I saw it, there were plenty old adults too.

[Jeffrey Karasarides]

ANASTASIA Reviews#12

Posted: 4/24/17 at 7:44pm

Matt Windman gives it a 3 out of 4...
http://www.amny.com/entertainment/anastasia-review-christy-altomare-is-smashing-in-broadway-s-musical-adaptation-1.13514747

[Chicken_Flavor]

ANASTASIA Reviews#13

Posted: 4/24/17 at 7:48pm

disneybroadwayfan22 said: "Literally only at the beginning and the end. The little actress then plays Alexi for two scenes and a child in the train scenes. And when I saw it, there were plenty old adults too."

Thank you very much, I'm excited to see this young girl make her broadway debut!!

 

[Wick3]

ANASTASIA Reviews#14

Posted: 4/24/17 at 7:50pm

mid-20s? Add the 30s folks too! So many people in their 30s love the movie too! 

[broadwayboy223]

ANASTASIA Reviews#15

Posted: 4/24/17 at 7:50pm

I love Christy but I was hoping Kelli Barrett would get to do this. Didn't she do some of the readings? 

[Jeffrey Karasarides]

ANASTASIA Reviews#16

Posted: 4/24/17 at 7:51pm

Yes, she did.

[BroadwayConcierge]

ANASTASIA Reviews#17

Posted: 4/24/17 at 7:59pm

broadwayboy223 said: "I love Christy but I was hoping Kelli Barrett would get to do this. Didn't she do some of the readings?"

Opening night is a bit late to voice casting complaints...

[disneybroadwayfan22]

ANASTASIA Reviews#18

Posted: 4/24/17 at 8:09pm

Chicago Tribune

Mixed-Positive 

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/theater/broadway/sc-anastasia-broadway-review-ent-0424-20170424-column.html

Time Out NY

Positive

https://www.timeout.com/newyork/theater/anastasia

EW 

Negative (Why is it a B-?)

http://ew.com/theater/2017/04/24/anastasia-broadway-review/

Updated On: 4/24/17 at 08:09 PM

[Jeffrey Karasarides]

ANASTASIA Reviews#19

Posted: 4/24/17 at 8:15pm

Hartford Courant is positive...
http://www.courant.com/entertainment/arts-theater/hc-review-anastasia-broadway-20170424-story.html

[thealtoslament]

ANASTASIA Reviews#20

Posted: 4/24/17 at 8:17pm

Whoo-ee, that EW review is brutal and they still gave it a B-? Way worse than Charlie, which they gave a lower grade.

[disneybroadwayfan22]

ANASTASIA Reviews#21

Posted: 4/24/17 at 8:17pm

Hollywood Reporter

Positive

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/anastasia-theater-review-996856

[Mike66]

ANASTASIA Reviews#22

Posted: 4/24/17 at 8:20pm

I must say -- that blue gown in the promo photograph takes my breathe away.

Kudos to the costume designer AND the actress wearing it.

 

[Jeffrey Karasarides]

ANASTASIA Reviews#23

Posted: 4/24/17 at 8:26pm

The Wrap is negative...
http://www.thewrap.com/anastasia-broadway-review-trump-russia-czarist/

Updated On: 4/24/17 at 08:26 PM

[disneybroadwayfan22]

ANASTASIA Reviews#24

Posted: 4/24/17 at 8:28pm

I read that as a pan. The Trump references were just ridiculous. 

[thealtoslament]

ANASTASIA Reviews#25

Posted: 4/24/17 at 8:30pm

Yeah, I have no idea what he's trying to do with the Trump references, and the whole thing reads pretty negative. The scenic design gets, like, one line of praise at the end.