The musical, based on the Broadway show and the 1997 animated film of the same name, adapts the legend of Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia escaping the execution of her family, the Romanovs.

From 1971 until her death in 1997, an Austro-Hungarian by way of Chicago and New York made Newport her home. Her name was ...

"The magnificent production is inspired by the beloved 1997 animated film and the heroic legend of the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia," reads an SHS announcement of the production.

Her name was Eugenia Drabrek Smetisko, commonly known as Eugenia Smith, but if you had asked her, she would have preferred to be identified as Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia.