Anna Karenina Lives!
Anna Karenina Lives!, by Germaine Shames, was produced by Bad Quarto Productions in 2017, and opened on 14 October 2017 in New York City. Anna Karenina Lives! was directed by Tony Tambasco.
IMAGE GALLERY
Mae West (Brigette Estola, left) attempts to commune with the spirit of Leo Tolstoy to help give peace to his widow, Sophia (Kirsten Egenes) in Bad Quarto's 2017 production of
Anna Karenina Lives!, directed by Tony Tambasco. Photo by James M. Smith.
Mae West (Brigette Estola, right) seduces Alexei Karenin (James Overton) in a bid to get him to loosen up a bit in Bad Quarto's 2017 production of
Anna Karenina Lives!, directed by Tony Tambasco. Photo by James M. Smith.
The cast (from left to right: Rachel Marie Kemp as Anna Karenina, Kirsten Egenes as Sophia Tolstoy, Brigette Estola as Mae West, and James Overton) sings their curtain number in Bad Quarto's 2017 production of
Anna Karenina Lives!, directed by Tony Tambasco. Photo by James M. Smith.
COMPANY
| Director | Tony Tambasco |
| Music Director | James Overton |
| Choreographer | Mike Canestraro |
| Costumer | Joanne Famiglietti |
| Artistic Director | Tony Tambasco |
| Artistic Associates | Alex Dabertin, Courtney M. McClellan, Andre Silva |
| General Manager | Joanne Famiglietti |
| Photographer | James M. Smith |
| Cast | |
| Brigette Estola | Mae West |
| Rachel Marie Kemp | Anna Karenina |
| Kirsten Egenes | Sophia TOlstoy |
| James Overton | Vronsky / Karenin |
MATERIALS
Bad Quarto Productions is devoted to creating performance contexts as well as performances, and to that end, we offer the following documents from Anna Karenina Lives! for perusal. If there's anything you'd like to review that you don't find here, please feel free to contact us.
Program
A pdf copy of the production program.
Poster
A png copy of the production poster.
"Mae West to the Rescue in Russia"
Review of Anna Karenina Lives! in L'Idea Magazine 19 October 2017. By LindaAnn LoSchiavo