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ANASTASIA Reviews

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LimelightMike
#1ANASTASIA Reviews
Posted: 4/24/17 at 9:39am

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#2ANASTASIA Reviews
Posted: 4/24/17 at 9:53am

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

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#3ANASTASIA Reviews
Posted: 4/24/17 at 10:39am

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

showbizkid2
#4ANASTASIA Reviews
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! 

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BroadwayConcierge
#5ANASTASIA Reviews
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
#6ANASTASIA Reviews
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!

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Justin D
#7ANASTASIA Reviews
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

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bwayrose7
#8ANASTASIA Reviews
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
#9ANASTASIA Reviews
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

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Chicken_Flavor
#10ANASTASIA Reviews
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?

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disneybroadwayfan22
#11ANASTASIA Reviews
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.

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#13ANASTASIA Reviews
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!!

 

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Wick3
#14ANASTASIA Reviews
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
#15ANASTASIA Reviews
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? 

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#16ANASTASIA Reviews
Posted: 4/24/17 at 7:51pm

Yes, she did.

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#17ANASTASIA Reviews
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...

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thealtoslament
#20ANASTASIA Reviews
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.

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Mike66
#22ANASTASIA Reviews
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.

 

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#23ANASTASIA Reviews
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

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#24ANASTASIA Reviews
Posted: 4/24/17 at 8:28pm

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

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thealtoslament
#25ANASTASIA Reviews
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. 


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