RACHEL YORK FEATURED IN ANASTASIA: THE MUSICAL IN CONCERT FEB. 17 IN NYC

Rachel York will perform the role of Countess Lily Malevsky-Malevitch in the Manhattan Concert Productions' presentation of ANASTASIA: The Musical in Concert in one performance only on February 17 at the Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall in New York City. Rachel joins a cast that includes original Broadway stars Christy Altomare as Anya, John Bolton as Vlad, and Mary Beth Peil as the Dowager Empress of Russia.

Other performers are Jordan Danica as Gleb, Alex Joseph Grayson as Dmitry, New York City Ballet’s principal dancers Tiler Peck, Roman Mejia, and Chun Wai Chan, a stunning 400-voice chorus, and the New York City Chamber Orchestra. Stage director is Sara Hartmann. Music director is Tom Murray.

ANASTASIA is the Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty musical based on the classic tale of the search for Anastasia, the young daughter of the royal Romanov family who may have survived the Bolshevik Revolution. With the Russian Empire collapsed, the Romanovs either killed or exiled, and Vladimir Lenin now the leader of the new socialist Soviet Union, two opposing factions are desperately in search of the girl - Russian soldiers who want to execute the last remaining Romanov heir, and the Dowager Empress, Anastasia’s grandmother, who escaped to Paris before the bloody takeover.

Accompanying the Dowager is Countess Lily, a former royal who now has only a few salvaged diamonds to remind her of the aristocratic life she left behind (The Land of Yesterday). In Paris, she serves as the Dowager’s secretary, with one of her duties being to screen the hundreds of letters from young women claiming to be the long lost Anastasia. When Anya lands on the Dowager’s doorstep accompanied by her co-conspirators Vlad and Dmitry, the Dowager must decide if this remarkable young woman is the real Anastasia or yet another impostor. Meanwhile, Lily rekindles an affair with old flame Vlad (The Countess and the Common Man). Later, she preps the media for an announcement by the Dowager (The Press Conference). What will be the fate of Anya?

The concert is February 17 at 8 p.m. Tickets for this one-night-only performance are available through the Lincoln Center website.