#Dmitry Anastasia

[daveys-sister]

Gleb: Wow, Anya, you look really pretty.

Dmitry: Ya, pretty fucking annoying.

Anya: *decks him*

[jimmymushroomisdead]

i want a count for the amount of times dmitry is hit with something in anastasia

[hehicular-hanslaughter-lecter]

EVERYONE STOP.

So. The symbolism for the Quartet at the Ballet makes little-to-no sense, right? WHY is Gleb Rothbart? He has nothing to do with anything about him!!!! Why is Dmitry Siegfried??? Right, because he's in love with Anya, who is the white swan Odette. We're not gonna mention Odile at any point except for her iconic 32 fouettes for reasons (probably because they look cool). Don't ask us any questions about the Dowager Empress we don't know how she fits into this either.

This post by my mutual @vampyrekatwrites details a much more fitting take on the Swan Lake symbolism: that Gleb should be Siegfried, Anya is Odile, and Dmitry is Rothbart, mentioning in the tags that perhaps Maria could be the Queen. I ADORE this concept. For one, it gives Maria an actual place alongside the other members of the Quartet (because this is a quartet, not a trio) and just..........makes actual sense? Rothbart is a magician. He deceives the Queen, presenting a false swan. Siegfried almost shoots the white swan, the woman he loves. And the very nature of Anya being Anastasia (and the very real possibility that she might not be, though the coincidences are a bit too coincidental and the intention of the writers was for her to be Anastasia) fits perfectly with the inclusion Odile, and the dichotomy of Odette vs Odile.

Taking this to the end of the ballet, the traditional tragic end fits perfectly as well. Odette dies, Odile lives, and Rothbart wins. Siegfried is left alone, and perhaps, dies as well. The Queen mourns her losses. Odile and Rothbart escape into the night, never to be seen again.

Like????????? COME ON the ballet had so much potential!!!!! Don't even get me started on costuming and how that could have been used! Anya, dressed in all-black rather than a white shirt and black skirt underneath her coat. Gleb wears his green uniform, the same as Siegfried. Dmitry's scarf becomes a deep purple, the accenting color of Rothbart's dark feathers. Maria's colors are less certain, as each production has their own take for the Queen, but perhaps here she matches Siegfried's green, but in a deep emerald, with white and gold. Maria wears this emerald in the opening prologue rather than purple, and throughout the rest of the show these colors peek out from underneath her mourning blacks, until she returns to green once again after her reunion with Anya.

Once in Paris, perhaps Dmitry's suit is similar to his movie counterpart in Paris Holds the Key, but a pale lilac rather than pink. Anya diverges from this color symbolism to instead wear a pale blue (blue is the color of Anastasia, from her bow to the opera dress, and here she is getting closer, but not quite there yet.) I'm kicking Vlad out of his green suit for reasons and making him wear something akin to his movie suit ala Dmitry. Both Dmitry and Anya trade in their white sleep-clothes for black. At the opera, Dmitry and Gleb wear traditional tuxedos, and (this is for you Kat) depending on which idea you like better, fake or real, Anya either wears a black gown at the opera and a more casual white dress at the reunion right after (she's Anastasia), or she wears white at the opera and black at the reunion (she's not).

For the finale, Anya's dress isn't red, but deep blue, like her original dress for the opera (interpret this threat as being evidence of her true identity, or as her fully embracing the lie, as you wish). Gleb has on a green suit, like Vlad's, which is why I kicked him out of it. Odile or Odette, he cannot kill either of them, and when Anya runs off to meet Dmitry, he still wears the purple scarf.

Or something. Idk. I like colors

[drinkin-cherryschnapps]

me and @pealeiis official anastasia revival dream cast

anya - bronte barbe

dmitry - robert lenzi

vlad - john dossett

gleb - jeremy jordan

lily - capathia jenkins

dowager empress - rita moreno

[stuckasmain]

Because it’s a tour-

So Anastasia is so ruling my mind rn but anyway, I’ve seen the tour in its current iteration and I’m maintaining that it’s the best cast of the show. This isn’t just from it being the first I’ve seen but actively listening to the original soundtrack also proves this to me. Just all that they put into it is- sheer power.

This being said I still went away feeling like I missed a lot compared to the original show? I think it’s from either time constraint or that it is a tour so they have to cut certain things. I’m going to list a few things and if anyone has answers/can way in please do .

There was no physical train car and the set itself was quite limited. Mainly screen and the main side. This made a absolutely stunning and heart breaking opening/last dance of the romanovs. But left for a cgi train car that made me motion sick 😭 pls

I feel like there’s a lot more to Vlad and Dmitry then what we did get? Despite they both have backstory Songs?!(My Petersburg and The countess and the common man) I fell like they just hint “ohhh Anya I have a tragic backstory~” but never completely fill it out. If I’ve seen the movie maybe it’d be explained more?

No magic but Gleb disappears like it. The man’s very much a threat but just disappears in the middle and then re-appears to pour his absolute heart out at the ballet and then dip again until the confrontation with Anya later on.

Same with what I was saying ealier the  dowager also has a habit of hinting but never having a full explanation. No I don’t want everything spelled out for me but the show directly hints at there being a reason she’s sort of forced to Paris but it’s never said

[eliounora]

season's greetings🎄 (anastasia is a christmas movie right?)

[musicaltranslations]

My Petersburg - GERMAN

Show: Anastasia Authors: Lynn Ahrens, Stephen Flaherty Original title: My Petersburg Language: German Translator: Wolfgang Adenberg

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Mein Petersburg

Ich wuchs auf, ganz allein in der Gosse und dem Dreck von Petersburg. Lebte mich sehr schnell ein und nichts kriegte mich hier klein, in Petersburg. Ich schlief an Straßenecken, klaute mir mein Brot und mir half mein Köpfchen aus jeder Not. Denn wenn du hier nicht schlau bist, bist du garantiert bald tot. So ist das! Viele hier kommen durch, viele nicht. Vielen bläst kalter Wind ins Gesicht. Doch nicht mir, das ist hier mein Petersburg. (Komm Anja!) Sieh dich um, meilenweit von den Türmen zu den Piers von Petersburg. Ich stand oft dort am Kai mit gestohl‘nen Souvenirs aus Petersburg. Die Schlösser auf dem Berg die Gassen um mich her irgendwann erdrückt dich die Stadt nicht mehr. Du kannst sie noch so hassen und du liebst sie doch so sehr. Denn alles was ich weiß, was ich hab fing hier an und das Kind wurde hier zu dem Mann, der ich bin und sein kann. Ja, wir können im Leben auf and’re vertrau’n doch ich lernte von Vater nach vorne zu schau’n Nichts kann mich hier halten, nichts wird hier vermisst, seltsam wie bereit du bist wenn dir deine Stadt sagt, dass es Zeit zum fortgeh’n ist. Und darum wissen wir, unser Weg ist noch weit du und ich brechen auf, es ist Zeit. Doch heut Nacht zieht der Blick uns in den Bann Mein Petersburg, schau es dir an.

---    Listen here

[collageofnudes]

Anastasia Shcheglova (Anastasia Scheglova - Анастасия Щеглова) by Dmitry Chapala

part 8 / 8 (part 1 , part 2 , part 3 , part 4 , part 5 , part 6 , part 7)

[jomarchswritingjacket]

fact: every single theater production can be improved by lesbians

[forestwaterfalls]

do you ever read the anastasia broadway script and just want to die

[izloveshorses]

anya + flinching at loud noises and sudden movements (vs dmitry noticing, adjusting his behavior, and becoming a source of comfort)

[mansion-of-haunts]

figured i should put these here

[darklinaforever]

I'm really confused about the musical's changes to the Dimitri & Anastasia relationship. Yes, they couldn't keep the Dimitri saves her child aspect. But they could keep the part where he worked at the palace and suggest that he and Anya had known each other as children and mayne liked each other, like an echo of the original movie which suggested that Dimitri probably had a little crush on her when he was small. But no. Instead we get : Oh they saw each other once as a kid at a parade and he greeted her in the crowd and their eyes met leading to a love at first sight that lasted their whole lives... Wtf seriously ? It's rubbish ! Especially since Dimitri lost a lot of his anti-hero substance in the musical. Yes, he's still a scammer but he's much more tender and smooth than his film counterpart ! For what ? Again, transform Anya's personality, I can still understand, to make her more like a Disney princess. But why Dimitri ?! My god... the musical is great to listen to and the character of Gleb fantastic, but they massacred my darling Dimitri. I love Gleb, but facing Dimitri from the original film, there is no match. But against the Dimitri of the musical, yes, Gleb wins. Why every time a villain in love is created, people prefer to invent a bland love interest ?!

[meri-l]

spoilers! spoilers! spoilers!

Big spoilers on Major Grom: The Game

Artwork by Anastasia Phobs Kim for the movie Major Grom: The Game

MGPD: Seryozha thinks he's talking to Oleg

MGTG: Oleg thinks he's talking to Seryozha

[clairedelune-13]

Hot Take: The Disney princes are not the only icons. The non-Disney ones are GOAT.

[usernamesuggestionsarefunny]

Dmitri's beloved dad whom he loves and admires being killed by the tsarist government and him still having a crush on Anastasia, going to a Romanov parade, and bowing is an “inconsistent and unnecessary” addition to the story TO YOU

I have a whole ass series of automatically created backstory headcanons I barely had to think through based on Dmitri's cynical and apolitical vibes that perfectly explains it