Broadway’s Anastasia musical is coming to Australia in 2025

• The Anastasia musical, a hit in Broadway, is premiering in Australia in 2025.
• John Frost for Crossroads Live and Opera Australia announced the premiere.
• It will play at Sydney’s Lyric Theatre in April 2026.
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John Frost is Australia’s most prolific and successful theatre producer, having produced almost 200 productions around the world, including Annie the Musical which opens at Sydney’s Capitol Theatre tonight. Today, Frost has announced that his Broadway hit Anastasia musical will come to Australia later this year.

Bringing the Anastasia musical to Australia

Anastasia premiered on Broadway in March 2017 and played to sold-out audiences for three years before appearing in Europe, Latin America and Japan, as well as two North American tours. It’s won more than 15 major international awards, including Best Musical in Germany, The Netherlands and Spain, and was also nominated for the Tony Award for Best Costume Design in a Musical. So it’s safe to say an Australian production is long overdue.

Premiering at the Regent Theatre in Melbourne in December, the production will then tour to Perth and Sydney in 2026. Revealing the plans, producer Frost shared:

The legend of Anastasia has intrigued the world for many years and I’ve been wanting to bring this musical to Australia since it premiered on Broadway in 2017. It’s a story full of mystery and romance with a magnificent score that I know Australia is going to fall in love with

Working with Frost is a Tony Award-winning creative team comprising of Terrence McNally, Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens, who have brought the mysterious tale to the stage. There was plenty of reference material to work with: there have been two films telling the captivating story, including the 1956 film with Ingrid Bergman, Helen Hayes and Yul Brynner, and the 1997 20th Century Fox animated film, which featured a score by the musical’s very own Ahrens and Flaherty.

What’s Anastasia about?

For those unfamiliar with the films, the story is inspired by the real-life disappearance of Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, who was long rumoured to have escaped the Bolsheviks during the dawning days of the Russian Revolution.

In the fictional depictions, Anastasia Romanov loses all memory of her life before her escape and, as a young woman named Anya, sets out to discover the mystery of her past. With the help of a handsome conman and loveable ex-aristocrat, she embarks on an epic adventure that takes us from Imperial rule to the opulence of 1920s Paris.

The opulent settings and dazzling outfits seen in the films lend themselves well for the stage. That nomination for the Tony Award for Best Costume Design in a Musical was well deserved too, judging by the snippets we’ve seen of the Broadway musical. Audiences will be stunned by the lavishness the creative team manage to recreate on the stage.

Tickets will go on sale later this year. To sign up to the waitlist to be the first to find out the date, visit anastasiathemusical.com.au.

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