One of the most popular musicals on Broadway right now is "Anastasia," an adaptation of the 1997 20th Century Fox animated movie. Here's how the show deviates from the film.
1. Anya is aged up
2. A Different Villain
Both Gleb and Dimitri fall in love with Anya.
3. Sophie is now Lily
This character is a former countess and currently the Dowager Empress lady in waiting. Her movie counterpart is plumper and named Sophie while in the musical she's skinnier and named Lily.
4. The songs are placed at different times
"Journey to the Past," for example, takes place as Anya is on her way to St. Petersburg in the movie. In the musical, she sings it just before she, Dimitri, and Vlad enter Paris.
5. The story of how Anastasia and Dimitri first met
In the film, 10 year-old Dimitri helped 8 year-old Anastasia and her grandmother the palace siege through a hidden passageway. The age that they met remained the same for the musical, only Anastasia spotted him in a crowd while taking part in a parade.
6. There are new songs
For instance, "We'll Go From There," which elaborates on Vlad, Anya, and Dimitri's thoughts on their (totally illegal) train ride out of Communist Russia to Paris.
7. The costumes
Rather than her iconic pink-and- yellow dress from the movie, Anastasia wears this ornate red one at the end of the musical. The pink-and-yellow dress was given to her teen self and the other three Romanov sisters in the prologue.
