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'Anastasia' musical in the works

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Press Trust of India Los Angeles
Last Updated : Apr 27 2015 | 9:57 AM IST
One of the most beloved '90s animated films 'Anastasia' is coming to the theatre.
The show will premieres at Hartford Stage in Connecticut in May 2016 and run for a month, organizers announced this week, reported E!Online.
The cast of the new musical has not been announced.
Darko Tresnjak, who won a 2014 Tony Award for Best Director of a Musical for "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder", is helming the "Anastasia" musical.
Others leading the production are playwright Terrence McNally, composer Stephen Flaherty and lyricist Lynn Ahrens.
The latter two worked on the music of the fan favorite 1997 animated movie.
Loosely based on a true story, the film, produced by Twentieth Century Fox Pictures, starred Meg Ryan as the long-lost Russian princess Anastasia Romanov, who was raised as an orphan known as Anya and lost her memory as a child after she escaped an attack on her royal family by an evil sorcere.

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First Published: Apr 27 2015 | 9:57 AM IST

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