The Hanover Theatre's 2021 - 2022 Broadway Series | Anastasia Children's Program by TheHanoverTheatre

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CHILDREN'S PROGRAM

provided by The Hanover Theatre and Conservatory Education Department

Theatre Etiquette

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CAST

Little Anastasia (at certain performances).................................. TAYA DIGGS, MARLEY SOPHIA Dowager Empress .......................................................................................................GERRI WEAGRAFF Tsarina Alexandra ................................................................................................... MIKAYLA AGRELLA Tsar Nicholas II .................................................................................................... CHRISTIAN McQUEEN Young Anastasia ..................................................................................................... VERONICA RAE JIAO Maria Romanov .......................................................................................................VICTORIA MADDEN Olga Romanov ................................................................................................................ LAUREN TEYKE Tatiana Romanov ..................................................................................................MADELINE KENDALL Alexei Romanov (at certain performances) ......................................... TAYA DIGGS, MARLEY SOPHIA Gleb ....................................................................................................................... BRANDON DELGADO Dmitry ............................................................................................................................. SAM McLELLAN Vlad ............................................................................................................................BRYAN SEASTROM Anya ......................................................................................................................................KYLA STONE Paulina.................................................................................................................... VERONICA RAE JIAO Marfa ........................................................................................................................VICTORIA MADDEN Dunya ....................................................................................................................MADELINE KENDALL Count Ipolitov ...................................................................................................... CHRISTIAN McQUEEN Gorlinsky............................................................................................................................. CERON JONES Countess Lily ............................................................................................................. MADELINE RAUBE Count Leopold .................................................................................................................... CERON JONES Sergei ............................................................................................................................. THOMAS HENKE Count Gregory ..................................................................................................... CHRISTIAN McQUEEN Countess Gregory........................................................................................................... SARAH STATLER Odette in Swan Lake ....................................................................................................... LAUREN TEYKE Prince Siegfried in Swan Lake ....................................................................................TAYLOR STANGER Von Rothbart in Swan Lake...............................................................................................DAKOTA HOAR Suitors, Soldiers, Comrades, Ghosts, Parisians, Russian Aristocrats in Exile, Waiters, Reporters, Cygnets in Swan Lake .......... MIKAYLA AGRELLA, WILLIAM AARON BISHOP, THOMAS HENKE, DAKOTA HOAR, VERONICA RAE JIAO, EVIN JOHNSON, CERON JONES, MADELINE KENDALL, VICTORIA MADDEN, CHRISTIAN MCQUEEN, MADELINE RAUBE, TAYLOR STANGER, SARAH STATLER, LAUREN TEYKE

UNDERSTUDIES

Understudies never substitute for the listed performers unless a specific announcement is made at the time of the appearance.

For Anya—MADELINE KENDALL, VICTORIA MADDEN; for Dmitry—WILLIAM AARON BISHOP, EVIN JOHNSON; for Vlad—HARRISON DRAKE, CERON JONES; for Dowager Empress—ELIZABETH RITACCO, SARAH STATLER; for Countess Lily— MIKAYLA AGRELLA, ELIZABETH RITACCO; for Gleb—WILLIAM AARON BISHOP, CHRISTIAN McQUEEN; for Odette—VERONICA RAE JIAO, VICTORIA MADDEN; for Prince Siegfried—LANCE TIMOTHY BARKER, EVIN JOHNSON; for Von Rothbart—LANCE TIMOTHY BARKER, THOMAS HENKE

SWINGS

LANCE TIMOTHY BARKER, HARRISON DRAKE, LIZZY MARIE LEGREGIN, ELIZABETH RITACCO Dance Captain: LANCE TIMOTHY BARKER Assistant Dance Captain: VICTORIA MADDEN Fight Captain: HARRISON DRAKE

The use of any recording device, either audio or video, and the taking of photographs, either with or without flash, is strictly prohibited. Please turn off all electronic devices such as cellular phones, beepers and watches prior to the beginning of the performance.

NETworks Presentations presents

Book By

Music By

TERRENCE McNALLY

STEPHEN FLAHERTY

Lyrics By

LYNN AHRENS

Inspired by the TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX MOTION PICTURES by special arrangement with BUENA VISTA THEATRICAL From the play by MARCELLE MAURETTE as adapted by GUY BOLTON

KYLA STONE SAM McLELLAN BRANDON DELGADO GERRI WEAGRAFF BRYAN SEASTROM MADELINE RAUBE MIKAYLA AGRELLA LANCE TIMOTHY BARKER WILLIAM AARON BISHOP TAYA DIGGS HARRISON DRAKE THOMAS HENKE DAKOTA HOAR VERONICA RAE JIAO EVIN JOHNSON CERON JONES MADELINE KENDALL LIZZY MARIE LEGREGIN VICTORIA MADDEN CHRISTIAN MCQUEEN ELIZABETH RITACCO MARLEY SOPHIA TAYLOR STANGER SARAH STATLER LAUREN TEYKE Scenic Design

Costume Design

Lighting Design

Sound Design

ALEXANDER DODGE

LINDA CHO

DONALD HOLDER

PETER HYLENSKI

Projection Design

Hair & Wig Design

Makeup Design

Casting

AARON RHYNE

CHARLES G. LAPOINTE

JOE DULUDE II

JASON STYRES

Orchestrations

Vocal Arrangements

Dance Arrangements

Music Supervisor

DOUG BESTERMAN

STEPHEN FLAHERTY

DAVID CHASE

TOM MURRAY

Music Director

Music Coordinator

Tour Booking

Marketing & Publicity Direction

JEREMY ROBIN LYONS

JOHN MEZZIO

THE BOOKING GROUP

BOND THEATRICAL

MEREDITH BLAIR

Interactive Marketing

ANDY DRACHENBERG

Company Manager

Production Management

General Management

Production Stage Manager

BRAD HARDER

NETWORKS PRESENTATIONS

GENTRY & ASSOCIATES

MARIAH YOUNG

HECTOR GUIVAS

GREGORY VANDER PLOEG

Executive Producer

SETH WENIG Commissioned by DMITRY BOGACHEV Director

Choreographer

SARAH HARTMANN

BILL BURNS

Original Choreographer

PEGGY HICKEY Original Director

DARKO TRESNJAK Originally produced on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre on April 24, 2017 by Stage Entertainment, Bill Taylor, Tom Kirdahy and Hunter Arnold.

MUSICAL NUMBERS ACT I Setting: Saint Petersburg, 1906, 1917 & 1927

Prologue: “Once Upon a December”................................... Dowager Empress and Little Anastasia “The Last Dance of the Romanovs” ..................................................................................Ensemble “A Rumor in St. Petersburg”.................................................................Dmitry, Vlad and Ensemble “In My Dreams”.........................................................................................................................Anya “The Rumors Never End”................................................................................... Gleb and Ensemble “Learn to Do It”............................................................................................Vlad, Anya and Dmitry “The Neva Flows”...................................................................................................... Gleb and Anya “The Neva Flows” (Reprise) ...................................................................................................... Men “My Petersburg” ....................................................................................................Dmitry and Anya “Once Upon a December”.................................................................................. Anya and Ensemble “A Secret She Kept”..................................................................................................................Anya “Stay, I Pray You”.............................................Count Ipolitov, Anya, Dmitry, Vlad and Ensemble “We’ll Go From There”..............................................................Vlad, Anya, Dmitry and Ensemble “Traveling Sequence”.......................................................Gleb, Gorlinsky, Anya, Dmitry and Vlad “Still”..........................................................................................................................................Gleb “Journey to the Past”..................................................................................................................Anya ACT II Setting: Paris, 1927

“Paris Holds the Key (To Your Heart)”......................................Vlad, Dmitry, Anya and Ensemble “Close the Door”...................................................................................................Dowager Empress “Land of Yesterday”.............................................................................Countess Lily and Ensemble “The Countess and the Common Man”....................................................... Vlad and Countess Lily “Land of Yesterday” (Reprise)...................................................................................................Gleb “A Nightmare”........................................................................ Romanov Children, Tsar and Tsarina “In a Crowd of Thousands”....................................................................................Dmitry and Anya “Meant to Be”............................................................................................................................ Vlad “Quartet at the Ballet”................................. Anya, Dmitry, Dowager Empress, Gleb and Ensemble “Everything to Win”...............................................................................................................Dmitry “Once Upon a December” (Reprise).................................................... Anya and Dowager Empress “The Press Conference”............................................................. Countess Lily, Vlad and Ensemble “Everything to Win” (Reprise)..................................................................................................Anya “Still”/“The Neva Flows” (Reprise)........................................................ Gleb, Anya and Ensemble Finale.................................................................................................... Anya, Dmitry and Company

ORCHESTRA Conductor: JEREMY ROBIN LYONS Associate Conductor/Keyboard 1—LIZZIE WEBB; Keyboard 2: LESLIE WICKHAM; Violin—ADAM KUJAWA; Cello— ELEN WROTEN; Reeds—TODD BARNHART, RYAN CLAUS; Trumpet—KEATON VIAVATTINE; Horn—JACOB POULOS; Percussion—RYAN BLIHOVDE. Music Coordinator: JOHN MEZZIO Electronic Music Design: STRANGE CRANIUM Original Keyboard Programming: RANDY COHEN, RANDY COHEN KEYBOARDS

Anastasia utilizes theatrical haze, strobe lights, gunshot sound effects and smoking (vapor e-cigarettes).

The Mystery of the Grand Duchess AnastasiA The musical, Anastasia, and the animated film it comes from are both based off the true story of the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova who lived from 1901-1918. She was born on June 18, 1901 to the Czar, or King of Russia, Nicolas II and his wife, the Czarina, or Queen of Russia, Alexandra Feodorovna. She was the youngest of 3 sisters, the Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, and Maria and she had a younger brother Alexei Nikolaevich, the Czarevich or the Crown Prince of Russia. Anastasia’s father, Czar Nicolas II was never trained to rule his country and he was not a popular king because of this. Many people were desperate for the country to change and become like the rest of modern Europe. The Czar did not want to make these changes and led Russia into various wars, which they lost, causing his people to go hungry. In 1917, one of many revolutions broke out in Russia, causing Nicolas II to give up his throne. The revolutionists, called the Bolsheviks, took power and made Russia a communist country. Nicolas II took his family to Yekaterinburg to escape the Bolsheviks, but the they went after them. Unknown to the royal family, the Bolsheviks put a death sentence on the Romanovs and prevented the local soldiers and police from interfering. On July 17, 1918, the Bolsheviks caught Nicolas II and his family and killed them. At first, many people thought Anastasia escaped, for they could not find her. Over the years, many people impersonated, or pretended, to be Anastasia with the hope that they would be taken in as royalty. One of the most famous impersonators was Anna Anderson, who was able to have her case heard in a German court for 30 years before they ruled she was not Anastasia. The mystery of the Grand Duchess Anastasia continued for 89 years until 2007, when DNA evidence proved that Anastasia had indeed perished with the rest of her family.

The Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova in a court dress, 1910

The Royal Family in 1913. top (l to r): Olga, Tatiana middle/bottom (l-r): Maria, Czarina Alexandra, Czarevich Slexei, Czar Nicolas II and Anastasia

Spot the Differences Can you find 5 things that are different in the pictures below?

Word Search

Intermission Activities Look for and circle the words below in this puzzle. Words can be vertical, horizontal or diagonal. Can you find all of the words?

Word Search

Help Anya journey to Paris! Start at the top with Anya, and go through the maze to the Eiffel Tower. Be careful to avoid the dead ends!

Map and Math Skills

Fun Facts

In the show, Anya, Dmitry, and Vlad must travel from St. Petersburg, Russia to Paris, France. Can you find those 2 places on the map?

The distance between St. Petersburg and Paris is almost 1,560 miles! It would take about 2 or 3 days to travel there by train in that time period. They traveled by train AND on foot, so it took them even longer! If they just walked, it would take about 510 hours! How many days is that?

After the show. . . We hope you enjoyed this performance of Anastasia To remember this wonderful experience, use these spaces to describe your memories of your favorite songs, scenes, characters and actors.