While people of all ages are falling in love with the wardrobe of the show, Altomare’s favorite outfit is, surprisingly, her brown look from Act I.
“I feel the most Anya and I wear it all of Act I. I don’t have to change out of it. It feels like a second skin at this point.”
But to no one’s surprise, considering how she radiates on stage, she says she feels the most beautiful in the red dress Cho designed for Act II.
The biggest juxtaposition in the show is the transition from Act I in Communist Russia to Act II in Paris. After they raise the curtain, all three lead characters have just arrived in Paris. We see Anya, Dmitry, and Vlad all dressed up in expensive, colorful outfits. This is a big moment in the show where the cast and creative hope the audience feels an emotional shift, and the cast starts to sing another song from the film, “Paris Holds the Key (to Your Heart)”.
“What I’m hoping that when we’re performing [the song], people are getting that Dmitry and I are completely thrown out of our element and even just the act of smiling in public is a foreign thing. People can walk around in colorful clothing. It’s the kind of paradise that they never knew existed.”
