Anastasia

That makes sense.

And so, but they were, they released both Fievels and this and Thumbalina, and I believe Anastasia is one of their last ones-

Oh

... which if you look at, like-

Bartok

...

in Anastasia.

Yeah.

um should we say mixed bag for

don bluth honestly i would say so like yeah it feels like it should be a like it should be at least among like the top half because yeah there are some duds from don bluth but at the same time he has also made some absolute peak movies from yeah The Secret of NIMH to American Tail, Land Before Time, Anastasia.

So at the very least, I would say at worst, he's a mixed bag.

But I can understand if other people would put him at mostly good.

So true.

[laughs] Anyways, I'm writing you because I know you have been on your Romanov's journey, and I need to know if you know about the stage adaption of the Anastasia musical, because it is wild.

I took the love of my life, my beautiful Irish partner, to see it for our anniversary because we both like musicals and we thought it would be fun, and ended up making my Irish partner watch what I can only describe as an anti-revolution, anti-commie, pro-royalist propaganda with dancing.

[laughs]

And also, we don't know how she escaped, and Gleb is going to decide he doesn't wanna shoot up the princess in the final moments.

Wait, was it...

And Gleb is going to decide he doesn't want to shoot up the princess in the final moments because he has a change of heart for no reason other than we can't let the little girls in the audience watch Anastasia be JFK'd.

[laughs]

And then The Three Musketeers, Sunday in the Park with George, Evita, Miss Saigon, and Cats.

Can you believe all of this? She sang the Academy Award-nominated song Journey to the Past from the animated film Anastasia.

She was in the two Aladdin sequels, The Swan Princess and Beauty and the Beast.

She's performed concerts all around the world and with her sister, Anne Hampton Calloway, who's been a guest on this podcast.

Okay, let's go to the next one.

This is Journey to the Past.

That's from that film Anastasia.

years of dreams just can't be wrong finally home where i belong well starting now i'm learning fast

Yeah.

Anastasia, which got my wife excited because it's her favorite Disney movie.

Well, look at that.

That's a deep cut.

It wasn't a good one that you want to tell your kids before they go to bed, but it did have Christopher Lloyd in it.

No, I loved

Anastasia.

The soundtrack was amazing.

And it would be the last 20th century Fox animation to use all hand-painted animation.

And their next film, Anastasia, was when they switched to using digital methods.

There

we go.

Anastasia looked great, so they figured that shit out pretty quick.

But yeah, Secret starring Springfields all over the place there.

But not only was this 20th Century Fox, this was also a collaboration with Turner Feature Animation, which Ted Turner's been in the news a bit because he died recently.

So I th- I think, I f- I forget the name of it.

It's the, um, is it An- just Anastasia or the, the one about Anastasia, right?

That's what I was thinking, too.

Have you guys seen that one?

Or not, I'm sorry, it was not produced by Disney, but it's, it's produced from the cartoon.

Um, the Broadway version or whatever it is.

Uh, that sounds right, '97, Anastasia.

Yeah, I've only seen that once, but I think that was what was feeling right to me as well, so.

Cody, what's your relationship with Meg Ryan?

Uh, you- so I first encountered her in the motion picture Anastasia.

Uh, and-

Of course