Anastasia Blog

girls don’t want a boyfriend. girls want a pro shot of anastasia with the original broadway cast.

Me when I experience the slightest negative emotion:

ramin karimloo as gleb vaganov from anastasia (2017)

Constantine singing the Land of Yesterday Reprise >>>>

Honestly I hate how people always hate on Cody Simpsons performance of Dimitri.

Sure he’s no Derek Klena or Zach Adkins, but he was still super good as the role and at least it wasn’t Cameron Dallas.

He’s definitely not my #1 Dimitri (that’s reserved for Derek), but he shouldn’t get all the hate for his role that he did.

I saw the boot of him as Dimitri in the final performance and couldn’t get why people dislike him in the role so much since he wasn’t half bad.

Dimitri is a hard role to play correctly especially with that high note at the end of my Petersburg and he managed to play the role really well in my opinion.

One of my favorite things I know is that Angela Lansbury was the dowager empress in the workshops of Anastasia, and she was the dowager in the original movie.

I think there’s a clip of her singing close the door on YouTube in the early versions of the show.

legacy. what is a legacy?

Okay but I love the addition to close the door in the musical Anastasia.

I just feel like it gives the dowager so much more character and is a really touching and moving scene (especially when she collapses the photo of Anastasia).

It also breaks my heart every time and Mary Beth peil is an icon.

Christy Altomare, Derek Klena, and John Bolton were the perfect choices for Anya, Dimitri, and Vlad. Like... how did they get it so perfect!?

i demand appreciation for my favorite guy vlad from anastasia, both the movie version and the musical version bc like wow I do not see nearly enough love for this rad old guy like?

movie version we’ve got this guy right, he’s in his late 40s probably and very VERY easily could’ve been made into comedic relief or the “punching bag character” and in the original script that was pretty much his entire purpose, like you could make a drinking game every time his weight was brought up and you’d be dead. that would’ve been so easy but nah ah ah INSTEAD we got this tritagonist who actually has motives, flaws, a personality, a purpose in the story, etc etc. And yeah he was funny at times but most of the jokes were centered around him and Dimitri playing off each other or how he reacted to certain things (the scene right before learn to do it is a prime explain. loving the flower crown my friend). And he has a cute gf! who he loves! like gomez and morticia levels of love and she isn’t made into a joke either! and they get their happy ending and I love that and he’s also a genuinely nice dude. i feel like he could give me great life advice and even greater hugs

but the musical version? oh my god my main comfort character in the whole wide world is this guy. like he’s so wildly different from his movie counterpart sown to the last name but honestly I don’t even care because they expanded on everything the movie provided. he doesn’t really have much of a backstory? cool. now he’s a continent-wide known criminal who conned his way into the aristocracy. personality isn’t as developed as it shouldve been? okie doke let’s make him the main comedic part and give him more songs and an interesting character arc. no context for him and his aforementioned cute gf? not a problem let’s give em a song and a story where she was having an affair with him and he stole her wedding ring but he realizes he fucked up and now they’re in love again. got written out of the script right before the climax of the movie? put that bastard in the closing number. this guy is such a delight and all I wanna know is if he and lily are open to adoption bc hi i’m adopting age thank u

idk i just think he’s pretty darn cool and I never see any love for him. like i think there’s exactly one fic on ao3 that kinda centers around him which is weird considering he’s! one! of! the! main! characters!

So apparently Patrick page was vlad in the first readings of Anastasia and no matter how hard I try I can’t imagine him playing vlad on broadway (not that he’s a bad actor (I love him) I just can’t picture him as vlad)

And tbh… I can’t picture anyone but John Bolton playing vlad.

So for the people who have seen the musical version of Anastasia knows that after once upon a december she reveals she has had a diamond on her the entire time:

“She hid it from me till the day I could go. A secret she kept, although why I don’t know. She said ‘don’t tell a soul till the moment you must,’ I had to make sure I found someone I trust”

But why didn’t she just use that diamond in the first place to get to Paris? It was clearly enough money to get her, vlad, and Dimitri to Paris plus she had a bit extra cash from all of her jobs so it could’ve been more than enough for her to get there alone.

But for the plot of the show I get why she didn’t. But like; realistically speaking.

the nature of the anastasia fandom is that every so often leah will reblog an old post and we all reblog from each other as fast as we can