Anya

Staff

... Conductor	Harold Hastings
... Producer	LeRoy Holmes
... Engineer	Frank Laico

Cast

... Anya	Constance Towers
... Dowager Empress	Lillian Gish
... Josef	Boris Aplon
... Chernov	George S. Irving
... Bounine	Michael Kermoyan
... Prince Paul	John Michael King
... Katrina	Irra Petina
... Petrovin	Ed Steffe
... Tinka	Barbara Alexander
... Sleigh Driver	Lawrence Boyll
... Count Drivinitz	Lawrence Brooks
... Sergei	Jack Dabdoub
... Second Policeman	Bernard Frank
... Olga	Laurie Franks
... Nurse	Patricia Hoffman
... Yegor	Walter Hook
... Anouchka	Elizabeth Howell
... Police Sergeant	Howard Kahl
... Count Dorn	Adair McGowan
... Masha	Rita Metzger
... Baroness Livenbaum	Margaret Mullen
... Balalaika Player	Konstantin Pio-Ulsky
... Father	Michael Quinn (i)
... Genia, the Countess Hohenstadt	Karen Shepard
... Mother	Maggie Task
... First Policeman	Lawrence Boyll
... Countess Drivinitz	Elizabeth Howell
... Dancers	Barbara Alexander Kip Andrews Steven Boockvor Ciya Challis Randy Doney Patricia Drylie Juliette Durand Joseph Nelson
... Singers	Darrell Askey Lawrence Boyll Bernard Frank Laurie Franks Les Freed Horace Guittard Patricia Hoffman Walter Hook Howard Kahl Adair McGowan Rita Metzger Richard Nieves J. Vernon Oaks Mia Powers Lourette Raymon Robert Sharp John Taliaferro Diane Tarleton Maggie Task

Tracks

The original LP issue lists two numbers not on the recording as issued: "Now Is My Moment" and "A Sense of Love and Humor." It also lists timings for them, as it does for all the numbers. Both numbers were cut from the show before it opened on Broadway. The fact that not only were the titles listed but timings were given suggests that the songs were recorded, but they have never been issued, neither on the original United Artists LP release nor on the Kritzerland CD issue.

The notes in the booklet for the Kritzerland issue state that the recording was made the Sunday after the Broadway opening. Contemporary reports from Billboard, however, state that the recording was not only made prior to the Broadway opening but was released, though perhaps only on a limited basis, prior to the Broadway opening. One of the articles in Billboard states that the recording was available two weeks before the opening. Since there were two weeks of previews and no out-of-town tryout preceding the first previews on Broadway (a planned out-of-town tryout having been canceled), it seems that the recording session may have happened even before the first public performance.

All of this is supported by a statement from Robert Wright that appeared in an interview with him published in the booklet for the original issue of the recording of the score of Wright and Forrest's revised version of Anya, which has gone by several titles over the years. The recording was originally issued as The Anastasia Affaire. In that interview, Wright said: "They had recorded the show two weeks before the opening, just before previews began at the Ziegfeld."