Anastasia

Prologue

It is 1907 and the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna prepares to leave St. Petersburg to travel to Paris. She comforts her granddaughter Anastasia, who is sad to see her go. The Dowager Empress gives Anastasia a music box before she goes (“Prologue: Once Upon a December”). Ten years pass and Anastasia is now seventeen. While attending a ball with her family, they are attacked by invading Bolsheviks. The Romanov family tries to flee (while Anastasia attempts to retrieve her music box) but they are shot and all presumed dead.

Act One

The Bolsheviks now control Russia and General Gleb Vaganov announces that the now-desolate St Petersburg is to be renamed Leningrad. Despite his assurance that the future will be bright and peaceful, the Russians protest the change. However, they receive a glimmer of hope with the rumor that Anastasia may have survived the attack on her family. Two men in particular are intrigued by his rumor: wanted con-men Dmitry and Vlad Popov. They begin to plan