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==The orignal text==
 
==The orignal text==
  
Based on the play Anastasia by Guy Bolton and Marcelle Maurette.
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Based on ''[[Anastasia]]'', Guy Bolton's adaptation and translation of Marcelle Maurette's play.
Music based on themes by Sergei Rachmaninoff.Lyrics by Robert Wright and George Forrest, with the music of Sergei Rachmaninoff.  
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Music based on themes by Sergei Rachmaninoff.Lyrics by Robert Wright and George Forrest, with the music of Sergei Rachmaninoff.
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==

Revision as of 18:27, 25 January 2023

I, Anastasia is a musical play by Robert Wright and George Forrest.

Also known as Anastasia: The Musical.

The orignal text

Based on Anastasia, Guy Bolton's adaptation and translation of Marcelle Maurette's play. Music based on themes by Sergei Rachmaninoff.Lyrics by Robert Wright and George Forrest, with the music of Sergei Rachmaninoff.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1981: Performed as I, Anastasia at the Alexander Theatre, Johannesburg, from 10 December, directed by Diane Todd and featuring her in the leading role. This is referred to by Percy Tucker as the World premiere production.

Sources

https://books.google.co.za/books/about/Vocal_selections_from_I_Anastasia.html?id=8OUIAQAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y.

Theatre programme held by NELM: [Collection: FARMER, Anthony]: 2007. 18. 13. 574.

Percy Tucker. 1997. Just the Ticket. My 50 Years in Show Business. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press: p. 405.

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