Posted: 8/10/15 at 10:30pm
While it seems that Disney owns the "animated to stage" crown(tiara), I saw the Ahrens-Flaherty musical Anastasia again recently and think that could transfer to the stage with the usual amount of rewrites and pre-production. The score and songs are very good, there are showstoppers, like St. Petersburg and all the Paris songs, the Anya and Dimitri romance is very Disney-like, it even has a cute puppy and a funny bat for the kiddies. I also think how great it was to hear Angela Lansbury, Bernadette Peters, Andrea Martin, Hank Azaria among an all-star vocal cast. I can't remember them all, the girl singing Anya is very good; maybe even Kelsey Grammar as the bad guy. I think this would have played better on Broadway than Doctor Zhivago.
Updated On: 8/10/15 at 10:30 PM
