I would love this to come over, but having seen the Broadway production, I'd hope they made MASSIVE changes. For a show about a movie that I love dearly, it was mostly just sooo boring.
The show has done pretty well over here in the States; it has certainly been running for longer than I expected.
That said, my husband and I did not really enjoy it. It uses a lot of very bright video screens that feel very anachronistic for a period piece. All of the scenic backdrops are computer-generated and this gives the production a somewhat "Times Square on New Year's Eve" feel. After a while, the digital scenery starts to feel like a one-trick-pony and becomes redundant.
Overall, we thought the show felt like a cheap Disney knockoff.
I actually nodded off a couple of times.
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I saw Anastasia on Broadway last year - in essence there is a good show in there. The cast and music were both great.
That said the set was horrible, the new changes with Rasputin/Gleb bad, the Russian stereotyping trite and cheesy and the story itself wasn’t too clear. The Emperess also came across as a nasty old woman. Why then do you care that Anastasia finds her of not?
With a new set, reworking and a clearer story closer to the film it could work on the West End. If not the critics will hate it and audiences won’t be keen and it will be a big fat FLOP.