Anya (musical)

Anya is a stage musical based on the myth of Anastasia, specifically the play by Marcelle Maurette and its subsequent film adaptation.

Cast[]

Constance Towers - Anya
Irra Petina - Katrina
Michael Kermoyan - Bounine
Boris Aplon - Josef
George S. Irving - Chernov
Ed Steffe - Petrovin
John Michael King - Prince Paul
Lillian Gish - Dowager Empress
Barbara Alexander - Tinka
Jack Dabdoub - Sergei
Laurie Franks - Olga
Walter Hook - Yegor
Rita Metzger - Masha
Michael Quinn - Father
Maggie Task - Mother

Plot[]

The story focuses on Anya who, when discovered in a Berlin psychiatric facility in 1925 by taxi driver Bounine, a former Cossack general in Czarist Russia, claims to be Anastasia, the supposedly murdered youngest daughter of Emperor Nicholas II.

A number of fictional elements, including a romantic triangle involving Anya, Bounine, and his mistress Genia and the addition of a comical character, café proprietor Katrina, weakened the plot of the true story. It also continued to perpetuate the notion that the Dowager Empress had met Anya in real life, when in fact the two never crossed paths.

Musical numbers[]

Act I

"A Song from Somewhere" - Anya
"Vodka, Vodka!" - Katrina, Josef and Emigres
"So Proud" - Bounine, Chernov, Petrovin and Josef
"Homeward" - Katrina and Emigres
"Snowflakes and Sweethearts (The Snowbird Song)" - Tinka, Anya, Father, Mother and Peasants
"On That Day" - Chernov, Petrovin, Josef and Katrina
"Anya" - Bounine
"Six Palaces" - Anya, Bounine, Chernov and Petrovin
"Hand in Hand" - Anya and Prince Paul
"This Is My Kind of Love" - Anya and Bounine
"On That Day" (Reprise) - Prince Paul and Investors

Act II

"That Prelude!" - Bounine, Katrina, Petrovin, Josef, Chernov, Sergei, Yegor, Masha, Olga and Policemen
"A Quiet Land " - Anya
"Here Tonight, Tomorrow Where?" - Chernov, Petrovin and Josef
"Leben Sie Wohl" - Katrina and Policemen
"If This Is Goodbye" - Anya and Bounine
"Little Hands" - Dowager Empress and Anya
"All Hail The Empress" - Emigres