Anna Karenina.
Anna Karenina is a stage musical based on the Leo Tolstoy novel of the same name.
Cast[]
- Ann Crumb - Anna Karenina
- John Cunningham - Nikolai Karenin
- Scott Wentworth - Count Alexis Vronsky
- Gregg Edelmann - Constantine Levin
- Melissa Errico - Princess Kitty Scherbatsky
- Jerry Lanning - Prince Stephen "Stiva" Oblonsky
- David Pursley - Fyodor/Basso
Plot[]
In 1870s Russia, Anna Karenina is a virtuous woman married to a government official 15 years older than she. Anna falls in love with the handsome and charming Count Alexis Vronsky, but she is torn by her loyalty to her husband and small son.
Meanwhile, Vronsky had first courted Ekaterina "Kitty" Alexandrovna Shcherbatsky, who chose him over gentleman farmer Konstantin Dmitrievich Levin. When Vronsky falls in love with Anna instead, Kitty becomes ill, and Levin, heartsick, withdraws to his country estate. Kitty and Levin finally declare their love for each other.
Anna's choice of love over duty leads to tragedy: Her affair with Vronsky is revealed, and she is shunned; eventually, she throws herself in front of an oncoming train.
Musical numbers[]
- Act I
- "On a Train" - Anna, Vronsky, Levin, Chorus
- "There's More to Life Than Love" - Stiva and Anna
- "How Awful" - Kitty
- "Would You?" - Levin
- "In a Room" - Levin, Kitty, Anna, Vronsky
- "Waltza and Mazurka" - Anna, Kitty, Vronsky, Stiva, Chorus
- "Nothing Has Changed" - Anna
- "Lowlands" - Basso
- "Rumors" - Chorus
- "How Many Men?" - Kitty
- "We Were Dancing" - Vronsky
- "I'm Lost" - Anna
- "Karenin's List" - Karenin
- "Waiting for You" - Anna and Vronsky
- Act II
- "This Can't Go On" - Anna, Vronsky, Karenin
- "Peasant's Idyll" - Chorus
- "That Will Serve Her Right" - Levin
- "Everything's Fine" - Anna and Vronsky
- "Would You" (Reprise) - Levin and Kitty
- "Everything's Fine" (Reprise) - Anna
- "Only at Night" - Karenin
- "Finale" - Anna and Chorus