Last year it was announced that the 1997 movie Anastasia, based on the mystery of the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna, would be adapted into a Broadway musical. The buzz started immediately (especially after it was revealed that Aaron Tveit, a Broadway heartthrob, read for the part of Dimitri back in 2012. Unfortunately, he no longer has any ties with the production.) Broadway enthusiasts waited on the edge of their seats for the casting to be released, for the cast recording to be released, and for the premiere date of the musical.

The Broadway version of Anastasia will stray slightly from the 1997 version. In the movie from 20th Century Fox (not Disney, a common misperception), a young Anastasia Romanov is singing with her grandmother at a ball commemorating the third century of the Romanov rule when the former royal adviser, Rasputin, crashes the party and sells his soul in order to put a curse upon the Romanov family. Anastasia and her grandmother, the Dowager Empress Marie Feodorovna, are the only ones to escape and board a train to Paris. Unfortunately, they are still separated when Anastasia falls off the train and hits her head. This gives her amnesia and leaves her stranded as the orphan Anya.

However, according to sources, the Broadway version will take the historical route, rather than the supernatural version fans loved in the movie. The musical is even taking out Rasputin and replacing him with a different villain: Gleb, a Russian revolutionary who doesn’t want Anya’s true identity to be known.

(Personally, my heart is broken that “In the Dark of the Night” will most likely not be in the stage version, as it is sung by Rasputin.)

It was recently announced that Anastasia would open at the Broadhurst Theatre on April 24, 2017, with previews starting on Mar. 23, 2017. Christy Altomare, a relatively new face to Broadway, will play the titular character. Altomare has played Wendla in the national tour of Spring Awakening and made her Broadway debut as Sophie Sheridan in Mamma Mia! in 2012. American Idol alum Derek Klena will be playing Dimitry (yes, they changed the spelling of his name), and Ramin Karimloo, who most recently appeared on Broadway as Jean Valjean in Les Miserables, will play the new villain, Gleb.

Tickets start at $69 and are available for presale now. While traveling to New York City for one night may seem extravagant, it can be assured that that night will be filled with incredible music, dazzling sets that transport you to both Russia and Paris in the 1920s, and a beautiful story about finding love, family, and home.