Shows · Anya · Ziegfeld Theatre, 1965
Anya, 1965
Of the productions that opened in the 1960s, this had the 402nd longest run.
Who was in it41 named
Boris Aplon
Jack Dabdoub
Elizabeth Howell
Margaret Mullen
Michael Quinn
Karen Shepard
Ed Steffe
Barbara Alexander
Kip Andrews
Darrell Askey
Steven Boockvor
Lawrence Boyll
Ciya Challis
Randy Doney
Juliette Durand
Bernard Frank
Laurie Franks
Les Freed
Horace Guittard
Patricia Hoffman
Walter Hook
Howard Kahl
Adair Mcgowan
Rita Metzger
Joseph Nelson
Richard Nieves
J Vernon Oaks
Konstantin Pio Ulsky
Mia Powers
Lourette Raymon
Robert Sharp
Diane Tarleton
Creative team
- Director
- George Abbott
- Choreographer
- Hanya Holm
Recordings
1 recording of Anya exist, but none was released while this run was on. See Anya for all of them.
Around this production
Anya is a musical with a book by George Abbott and Guy Bolton and music and lyrics by Robert Wright and George Forrest. As they had done with Song of Norway (1944) and Kismet (1953), Wright and Forrest developed the musical score using themes written by a classical composer, in this case Sergei Rachmaninoff. Based on Bolton's 1954 English adaptation of Marcelle Maurette's 1952 play Anastasia and the subsequent 1956 film adaptation of the same name, it 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…
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