I love the altered blocking in the first national tour.

Gleb: Wow, Anya, you look really pretty.

Dmitry: Ya, pretty fucking annoying.

Anya: *decks him*

I feel like I’m onto something

 Dimitry is just Jack Kelly (1992) if he was Russian

Gleb is Javert if he was Russian, bolshevik , and somehow less repressed?

I just saw the tour a few days ago and this was the first thing that popped into my head but I’m right 😭. Anyways I don’t know if a community for Anastasia has been active since 2017 but I’m HEREE. Omg someone please I have so much in my head

You mentioned Six Korea was a replica production, what exactly does that mean with reference to the other productions?

Hey! Yes, my apologies for not defining that! “Replica production” is basically used to describe any production using the same designs and choreography (usually in tandem with any directing/cut song/etc directions) as a prior or pre-existing production of that show. For example:

- if a Broadway show opens an associated national tour, that tour is almost always a replica of the Bway production

- sometimes we see revivals that are replicas of an earlier production (this usually happens because a production closed and then reopened because that initial production had gained significant interest since, like Beetlejuice, or because the original production is just too iconic to change, like A Chorus Line)

- international productions that keep the same base design/choreography/etc as original Bway/WE would be categorized as replica

Note that all replica productions aren’t exactly identical. There’s often some variance or changes. Sometimes that’s in materials, based on differing budgets and/or supply. @operafantomet does a fantastic job of cataloguing a lot of the changes in replica, semi-replica, and non-replica Phantom productions (here’s a post showing some of the variance in replica Star Princess bodices). Sometimes it’s in choreography or blocking, with some slight changes made to adapt a show to a different stage and all the changed technical aspects that exist there (different dimensions or set-ups). The musical Fun Home was built to be performed in-the-round, so when they switched to a national tour they had to re-block the production to work in typical proscenium theaters. Even Six has some of these changes - all current productions are technically replicas, but of course many of the productions use different materials and have some changed staging!

On the other hand, non-replica productions are new productions that don’t take heavily to the point of near-replication from prior productions, often with a different creative team. Nearly every revival is non-replica. Some international are as well; take this as an example of Anya’s red and gold dress from Anastasia as an example:

Left is Veronica Stern, currently Anya in the replica 2nd US Tour. Right is Pia Piltz, recently Anya in the non-replica Finnish production. The Finnish designers did take some loose inspiration with the color scheme, updo, and silhouette, but it’s obviously not anywhere near identical, is designed by someone else, and is part of a non-replica production.

Or with regards to recent UK productions, the current Newsies production very notably doesn’t use the initial choreography/staging/design of the initial Bway/US Tours and would be referred to as non-replica as well (it’s adapted brilliantly actually, I’ll talk about that sometime).

You also may sometimes hear the term “semi-replica.” It’s not half as common and not really an official term in the same way that replica and non-replica are, but people sometimes use it to describe productions with both replica elements and entirely original elements. Phantom has had a few productions that people will sometimes describe as semi-replica; the pared-down production that opened on the West End post-lockdown would be one example (again, if anyone is interested in examples I’ll refer you to @operafantomet).

Hope that clears things up!

The Anastasia tour cast sings "In the Dark of the Night" from the film.

just a suggestion but… have you ever considered drawing the anastasia national tour cast? as in veronica stern and willem butler as dimya? :)

good news anon!! i have painted the 2nt cast a couple times, just haven't shared them on here, only on instagram. i'll drop them here for you :)

veronica and willem, painted in the week before i got to see this production again last october <33

(fun fact! willem asked me for a print and a sticker of this one, now the sticker is on his water bottle <33 top tier level of fame for me i guess lol)

and idk if i posted this one on here but kyla stone and sam mclellan, painted after seeing them back in november 2021 early in this production's run <33

Kyla Stone’s last Journey 

THE POTATO 🥔 😂

Dreamcast

Elizabeth Ritacco as Catherine Parr

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Elizabeth Ritacco’s headshot by Darnell Bennett Photography, Gabriela Francesca Carrillo from @/officialgabrielacarrillo

📸: bradleycrump_

Even though there wasn't a physical train set for the second national tour, I loved how Anya was alone on stage and did the sign of the cross.

Dmitry, while drunk: *points at Anya* That’s my girlfriend, motherfuckers.

Vlad: She’s your wife.

Dmitry: My wife! Even better!

Dreaming of them.

Anastasia 2nd national tour cast (2022-2023)

crying bc there’s only two weeks left of the tour :’(

i saw anastasia on tour yesterday and it was amazing!!