{"id":2670,"date":"2025-05-09T20:40:40","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T20:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lenaweevoice.com\/?p=2670"},"modified":"2025-05-09T20:40:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T20:40:43","slug":"croswells-2025-broadway-season-opens-with-anastasia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lenaweevoice.com\/staging\/7542\/2025\/05\/09\/croswells-2025-broadway-season-opens-with-anastasia\/","title":{"rendered":"Croswell\u2019s 2025 Broadway Season opens with \u2018Anastasia\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Aubrie Lauren as Anya and Mary Rumman as the Dowager Empress, exiled to Paris, are pictured in a scene from “Anastasia” at the Croswell Opera House. (Photos by Lad Strayer)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

ADRIAN \u2014 The Croswell Opera House\u2019s 2025 Broadway Season opens on May 9 with the musical \u201cAnastasia.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Based on the 1997 animated movie of the same name, \u201cAnastasia\u201d is a fictionalized version of the story of the Duchess Anastasia, who was rumored to have survived after her family was overthrown in the Russian Revolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the show, a young woman named Anya is living in the newly renamed Leningrad with no memory of her past. She falls in with a pair of con men who hope to take advantage of her resemblance to the Duchess Anastasia to extract money from the Dowager Empress, now living in exile in Paris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The show features a book by Terrence McNally, music by Stephen Flaherty, and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, the team that also wrote the musical \u201cRagtime.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The director of \u201cAnastasia\u201d is Stephen Kiersey, the vocal director is Gabriel Hagedorn, the choreographer is Sarah Nowak, and the live orchestra will be led by Ray Novak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The role of Anya is played by Aubrie Lauren of West Unity, Ohio, a graduate of the Austin Peay State University musical theater program who was previously seen in the Croswell\u2019s productions of \u201cCabaret,\u201d \u201cJersey Boys,\u201d and \u201cThe Prom.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dmitry, one of the con artists and Anya\u2019s love interest, is played by Maxwell Lam of Adrian. Vlad Popov, his partner in crime and surrogate father, is played by Jeffrey King of Temperance. Gleb Vaganov, the show\u2019s main antagonist, is portrayed by Brian Jones of Maumee, Ohio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Maxwell Lam as Dmitry watches as Aubrie Lauren as Anya opens the music box that was given to her by her grandmother in a scene from “Anastasia” at the Croswell Opera House.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The dowager empress is played by Mary Rumman of Milan, a veteran of many Croswell productions. Love Ruddell plays Countess Lily, the dowager empress\u2019 lady-in-waiting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Filling out the 38-person cast are Haylie Blohm, Cassidy Giddens, Everett Hanley, Meg Lam, Libby Pifer, Bryan Shane, Daisy Solis, Josiah Torrence, Ja\u2019Vaughn White, Briella York, and Hallie Yuen, all of Adrian; Keith Rikli of Belleville; Mitchell LaRoy of Blissfield; Serenity Sanders Gerrild of Jackson; Joanna Bacarella and Olivia Bacarella of Monroe; Jonah Hiatt of Palmyra; Sami Chandler and Tim Chandler of Tecumseh; Jerold King and Emily Smith of Temperance; Ashley Thornton Murdock of West Bloomfield; Miriam Roth of Ypsilanti; Madeline Stewart and Hobbes Treynor of Holland, Ohio; Joshua Egnatuk of Luckey, Ohio; Maddie Burnham of Maumee, Ohio; Bella Bradbury of Monclova, Ohio; Kayla Garlick of Swanton, Ohio; and Will DuPuis and Abby Rose Hagedorn of Toledo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnastasia\u201d opens on May 9. The first weekend will have performances on Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday at 2:30 p.m. The second weekend will have performances on Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday at 2:30 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tickets range from $26 to $46 for adults and $16 to $26 for students, and may be ordered online at\u00a0croswell.org<\/a>\u00a0or by calling 517-264-7469<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Croswell reminds patrons that it will never sell tickets for more than the advertised price, so any website offering tickets for a higher price is a scam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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