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do you guys also have an intense love for the 1997 fox animation musical Anastasia 🧍🏽‍♀️

I did it. I wrote an assignment about Anastasia. It was 3 days late and a pain in the ass, but i did it. The obsession is academic now

#scrolling through my own blog for fun I guess and I forgot I did this #I hated that class but I maintain I ate with that personal essay #alas I couldn't show it to my family because it was very much about them #also shoutout to peer reviews revealing that I accidentally implied I didn't know who my dad was oops!#this girl gave me such a sad look and I was like don't worry I know him and he's a pain in my ass

laurencate

The best love stories are always between a princess and a wanted criminal who doesn't know how he got here.

emilydickinsane

might i add

emilydickinsane

your favorite from this very specific pipeline

Mr. Darcy

Dimitri

Eugene Fitzherbert

Voting ended onNov 25, 2025

thanks a bunch to @sureblamethebat for calling me and whole bunch of others tf out

that said I refuse to call him by any other name than Eugene

#i have been perceived????#anyway have to vote for my guy dimitri #he had a change of heart!!

transfemstalin-deactivated20260

real yearners miss people BEFORE they're gone

transfemstalin-deactivated20260

TRUTHNUKE

#dimitri

thephantomofanastasia

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’

thephantomofanastasia

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

thephantomofanastasia

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