Anastasia The Musical

[AshleyBrownFan123]

Posted: 7/29/06 at 11:26am

I hope it happens! No announcements were made, but I think it would be a hit!

[GoodbyeMyLover]

Posted: 7/29/06 at 11:44am

yeah i would go see that. i love the movie!

[CapnHook]

Posted: 7/29/06 at 11:55am

It's been discussed here on BWW SOOO many times. I, myself, think I created two topics on the subject.

Let's just get Ahrens & Flaherty on the phone and see what they have to say...

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Posted: 7/29/06 at 12:31pm

I doubt this one will happen. Not to mention it would need some real reworking.

[Mr. Tuttle]

Posted: 7/29/06 at 2:05pm

I think Meg could reprise her title role.

[AshleyBrownFan123]

Posted: 7/29/06 at 2:23pm

I pictured Ashley Brown as Anya/Anastasia for some odd reason...
I would def have Gavin Creel as Dimitri and Terrance Mann as Rasputin

[Queenie Was A Blonde]

Posted: 7/29/06 at 3:15pm

Too bad she didn't sing in the movie.

[Mr. Tuttle]

Posted: 7/29/06 at 3:20pm

What? Meg didn't sing in the movie?? Are you sure???

Since she is a trained musical theater performer (i.e "Chicago"),I thought she was singing.

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 7/29/06 at 3:41pm

What do you mean by i.e. Chicago? When was she in Chicago?

[EmieMarie]

Posted: 7/29/06 at 3:44pm

i think dear old meg is too old, if they make it a musical (i'd see it!) THey should get someone new or young and fresh

[Yero]

Posted: 7/29/06 at 3:52pm

Meg Ryan didn't do her own singing in the movie. Liz Callaway I believe did the singing.
Don't hurt me, but I've never seen the movie and I have never heard the music either, so I have no idea if it will work or not.

[jonartdesigns]

Posted: 7/29/06 at 4:04pm

mr tuttle- of the principals only kelsey grammer and angela lansbury, and bernadette peters did their own singing

the other singers were;
anastasia- liz callaway
dimitri- jonathan dokuchitz
rasputin- jim cummings (aka winnie the pooh/ tigger/ and occasionally eeyore)
and for the record an amazing ensemble including
jeff blumenkrantz
Victoria Clark
Darius de Haas
Madeline Doherty
Gregg Edelman
John Jellison
Alix Korey
Bill Nolte
Michele Pawk
Billy Porter
Patrick Quinn
J.K. Simmons
Emily Skinner
Lillias White

Updated On: 7/29/06 at 04:04 PM

[GClef2]

Posted: 7/29/06 at 4:10pm

Don't forget Bernadette Peters as Sophie.

Mr. Tuttle...you are thinking of Melanie Griffith.

[SarahBeth]

Posted: 7/29/06 at 4:12pm

I'd wanna see it. It's one of my favorite movies. I didn't know Victoria Clark was in it though! I feel ashamed of myself.

[jeremykushnier1fan]

Posted: 7/29/06 at 4:14pm

I'd see it. And why didn't I know about Victoria Clark!?

[DramaQueen700]

Posted: 7/29/06 at 4:24pm

because she sings ONE line in ONE song, theres a rumor in st. petersburg lol

[BwayBaby18]

Posted: 7/29/06 at 4:30pm

Jonart how dare you forget Andrea Martin as the old russian woman!

Um i think Gretchen Mol should play Anya...i second Ashley Brown though too

Emily Skinner for Sophie
Angela as Emperess

[ChrisLK]

Posted: 7/29/06 at 4:42pm

Wow, what a group! I didn't know anything about the ensemble. Anyway, I would love to see a theatrical production of it, although it presents the same old technical problems as all movie adaptations, and the bad guy is rather un-musical. And I'd feel bad for whoever would play Sophie; she'd be compared to Bernadette. But I'm always up for a chance to hear some more Ahrens and Flarhety music, and "Once Upon A December" is an excellent song. I'd love to see a production of it!

[AshleyBrownFan123]

Posted: 7/29/06 at 7:58pm

Wow, big ensemble!!!!!

If I had $20, 000, 000 to put up this show, the side walls would have old portraits that become real people who come out and fly over the audience during a ballroom dance. It would be hard, but I would want to be either director or set designer.

[broadway_show_fan]

Posted: 7/29/06 at 8:10pm

Oh it would be such a great show. They could do some amazing spectacle, costuming, choreography, effects... Plus it would be a great family draw - but I'd still go. Again and again.

Props to the Gavin/Terrence casting. Haha! I can see it.

[goldenstate5]

Posted: 7/30/06 at 2:47am

The only problem is that Anastasia is a 20th Century FOX movie (not Disney as many people mistake it for)...

...and I don't recall there being a FOX Theatrical unit, do you> A pretty big producer would want to produce and the only Broadway shows that were scouted from animated films (Charlie Brown does not count) are very high-grossing Disney movies, all of which grossed higher than Anastasia.

Other than these "little" problems, if it were onstage, it could be brilliant!

(ducks from the flames he gets when people tell him to stop with the reality)...

[cooperross]

Posted: 7/30/06 at 3:41am

not to mention, aside from the animated version, there IS a musical of "Anastasia" that has tried to make it on Broadway for decades in various inceptions.

A Wright and Forrest vehicle based on the Marcel Maurette play with musical themes by Rachmananoff, it started life as 'Anya' with Constance Towers.

The latest version I'm aware of is a studio recording with Judy Kaye and Len Cariou, under the title 'Anastasia.'

[winston89]

Posted: 8/30/06 at 12:20am

I am sure that there have been different versions of Anastasia. The story is russian folk lore. However, there have been different versions of what happend to the qustionable daughter of the final czar. For those of you that don't know, there have been stories about how the last czar had a daughter that never managed to flee Russia with the rest of them. Now, some even qustion as to weather or not the daughter existed or not. But the version we are talking about is one that the people at fox turned into a movie. I think that it will be a great show and is one I am hopeing for very much. I know that fox would have the money to mount a Broadway show. Just like Universal has the money to. I would be looking foward to see how they stage Rasputians song "In the dark of the night"

[flicker_]

Posted: 8/30/06 at 1:09am

The music in Anastasia is really beautiful and perfect for the stage, but there are many scenes that I think would be hard to work out. For example- the train scene where they jump off because it's about to go over a broken bridge, the boat scene. I'm sure there's other things, too. But I absolutely love the score, and I think Rasuputin's character would be a wonderful thing to behold on stage.

[mejusthavingfun]

Posted: 8/30/06 at 10:27am

LOL! I always get Meg Ryan and Melanie Griffith mixed up. They are both like the same person. Terrible actresses. I love that Melanie's career has tanked so bad she is not even the star on that sh!tty WB show.