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A story first made famous in a ’90s animated musical heads to Spokane via Broadway in dramatically different form.
Out of all the animated musicals from my childhood, Anastasia remains the most slept on.
The 1997 musical follows an 18-year-old orphan with amnesia named Anya who discovers she’s actually Russian royalty. The story fictionalizes the Bolshevik overthrow of the Imperial Russian Romanovs as an event perpetrated through dark magic by Rasputin. The only Romanovs to escape are Nicholas II’s mother, Dowager Empress Marie,
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