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The original play “Anastasia” written by French play-write Marcelle Maurette and translated into English by Guy Bolton is absolutely fantastic!

I read the English translation a while ago and I finally found a radio recording of the play.

I find it so fascinating that Anna knew about the con and that she wasn’t the real Anastasia right from the start. There really isn’t any romance in it, and the Dowager Empress knows the truth. Even Anna admits she was a factory worker, which the real Anna Anderson was. I feel like Anna deciding to leave in order to create her own life was so powerful and gave her character a lot of agency.

I hope this play gets revived one day, so I can see it on stage’

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Constance Towers as Anya, Michael Kermoyan as Prince Bounine, and Lillian Gish as the Dowager Empress.

An old article from the New York Times about the Anya operetta. This was adapted from the original “Anastasia” play. It’s the first time Anna’s name was changed to Anya and it’s the first time that this story was put to music. The album is on YouTube and is so beautiful.

This production played in the Ziegfeld Theatre on the 29th of November, 1965. Sadly, the operetta only had 16 performances before closing. It was directed by George Abbott and choreographed by Hanya Holm.

I wonder if the animated film was inspired by this operetta because the name Anya remained and they turned to the story into a family friendly animated musical. Which would later be adapted onto Broadway.

Source: Taubman, Howard. “Theater: “Anya,” a Sentimental Musical; Show at Ziegfeld Is Based on “Anastasia.”” New York Times, 30 Nov. 1965, www.nytimes.com/1965/11/30/archives/theater-anya-a-sentimental-musical-show-at-ziegfeld-is-based-on.html

http://www.nytimes.com/1965/11/30/archives/theater-anya-a-sentimental-musical-show-at-ziegfeld-is-based-on.html

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An original news article from the New York Times about the Anastasia play in 1954 at the Lyceum Theatre. The photos are of Viveca Lindfors as Anna and Eugenie Leontovich as the Dowager Empress in Adaptation of the Marcelle Maurette play, with English translations by Guy Bolton.

This is where it all began: a play, the old Hollywood film, an operetta, the animated movie, and then a Broadway musical!

Source: Atkinson, Brooks. “Adaptation from French Opens at the Lyceum.” New York Times, 30 Dec. 1954, www.nytimes.com/1954/12/30/archives/theatre-the-mystery-of-anastasia-adaptation-from-french-opens-at.html

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Anastasia and Queen Alexandra

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Anastasia (1997)

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Anastasia community is here!!

click this link to join if you want to talk about all things Anastasia related

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HE'S LITERALLY DUDE FROM THIS MEME FUUCCKKK

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Animation Set During the 1910s

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Мне закрыли гештальт!

Сердце мне лишь верь,

Храбрость будь опорой.

Отступать нельзя теперь.

С Днём Рождения меня 🎀

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The first in a series of crossovers!!

I’ve been wanting to draw some of my favorite leading ladies from Disney and non-Disney animated movies for quite some time now, and what better way to start than with Cinderella and Anastasia aka Anya dancing in a ballroom?

Cindy and Anya share a few things in common: they both have inspiring rags-to-riches stories, and they’re both kind, resilient, and determined young women. Oh, and they both have gorgeous, sparkling ball gowns!

I also want to use this series as an excuse to work on drawing and designing backgrounds.

Stay tuned for more!!

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Anya being super clingy w/ Dimitri in Paris while he’s having a mental crisis about her being his lost princess is so chaotic and sad to me.

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Hey everybody, pvqlez here with new CL content ✨️

I thought to draw to of my fav CL characters to practice the chibi art style for an upcoming Christmas workshop (bc I want to sell keychains and pins), not going as planned (bc I get easily distracted) but instead of drawing jolly St. Nick, I drew two cr4ckheads played by Christopher Lloyd 😋 so here they are, Iggy and Rara!! (Yes, I call Rasputin Rara, , bc of the song Ra Ra Rasputin-)

Thats about it really 🤷✨️

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I do not understand how they work but if I tried to make a tumblr community for Anastasia would anyone be interested

Edit: if five people show interest I will make it!

Edit edit: I did the thing and I’ve been waiting like a week for approval 😭 tumblr get your act together please

ITS HEREEEEE you can click this to join I think :D