Do you want to sleep with your teeth insida your mouth or out! A faraway church bell chimes four A. ANNIE starts putting things into a small basket. So long, dumbbell. And good luck. ANNIE sneaks across the stage.
My mother and father left a note saying they loved me and they were coming back for me. That was ; this is All of you. His name? His name is I call him Sandy because of his nice sandy color. Here, Sandy. Here, boy. Good Sandy. Good old Sandy. Next time you take him out, I wanna see him on a leash and with a license, or else he goes to the pound.
Soon as I take a bite. ANNIE takes a bite of the apple. Still, Warbucks does not think they are her real parents. He requests that she will be allowed to stay one more night for the Christmas party, and then they can take her away to their supposed pig farm in New Jersey.
Early that morning, she wishes she could have been adopted, not sent off with her 'parents' 'Maybe' reprise. Warbucks then receives a surprise visit from Roosevelt and his Secret Service. It is revealed by him that Annie's parents are actually David and Margaret Bennett, who died when she was a baby. They then realize that Mr. Mudge are really Rooster and Lily, just as they show up to claim her and the money.
Charnin first approached Meehan to write the book of a musical about Little Orphan Annie in Meehan researched by re-reading prints of the comic strip, but was unable to find any satisfactory material for a musical other than the characters of Annie, Oliver Warbucks and Sandy, so decided to write his own story. As all three of Meehan, Charnin and Strouse were from New York and given what he saw as the downbeat mood of the then-current Nixon era and the Vietnam War, Meehan set his story in New York during the similarly downbeat Great Depression.
Meehan saw the character of Annie as a 20th Century American female version of the titular orphan characters created by Charles Dickens in works such as Oliver Twist and David Copperfield with the mystery of Annie's abandonment and unknown parenthood as consistent with a strand of mysteries in Dickens' tales. Meehan's book was accepted by Charnin and Strouse, but considerable material had to be trimmed out — material which Meehan would later restore for his novelisation.
Price, Executive Director. Kristen Vigard was the first actress to play the title role. However, the producers soon decided that Vigard's genuinely sweet interpretation was not tough enough for the street-smart orphan. After a week of performances, Vigard was replaced by Andrea McArdle, who played one of the other orphans, Pepper. Vigard went on to become McArdle's Broadway understudy.
Danielle Brisebois was one of the orphans. She also understudied Alice Ghostley and Dolores Wilson. During the Broadway run of Annie , there were four touring companies that were launched from the original production to tour to major North American cities:. It played in Miami from April 12 to May 13, then continued for a few more cities until it landed in Chicago where it played for 32 weeks. In April , it continued on the road in with Mary K.
Lombardi now in the lead as Annie. In the fall of , Theda Stemler took over the part and was replaced in Boston when she grew too old. On May 15, , Louanne Sirota, who had played Annie in the long-running Los Angeles production see below , took over the role for four months. On June 12, , Sirota, just 9 years old up until that time, all Annies had been 11 years old , took over the role from Patts.
Marisa Morell took the role in December , closing the Los Angeles run and continuing on tour with the show through December Kristi Coombs then played Annie until this touring company closed in Philadelphia on January 23, Alyssa Milano played one of the orphans in The 3rd National Touring Company opened in Dallas on October 3, with Rosanne Sorrentino who would later go on to portray Pepper in the film version in the title role.
This company toured to 23 cities playing mostly shorter runs of a month or less. On March 27, , Bridget Walsh took over as Annie. Becky Snyder who had closed the 1st National Tour joined this company in the summer of and stayed with it until it closed in September of that year. This production was a 'bus and truck' tour, with a slightly reduced cast, that traveled the country and often played in two cities a week.
This company was still touring when the original Broadway production closed in January , making Kathleen Sisk the final performer to play Annie from the original production team. This tour closed in September Andrea McArdle, the original Broadway Annie, played the title role for 40 performances.
British year-old Ann Marie Gwatkin was also cast in the title role and appeared on the Original London cast recording. The first was as the character July in the chorus and the second was playing the title role of Annie. ITV Wales commissioned two documentaries about this young Welsh girl and her rise from obscurity to a West End leading lady.
The musical transferred to the Bristol Hippodrome for a special Christmas season before touring Britain. Because of strict British employment laws for juvenile actors, a succession of actresses took on the lead role every four months.
One of the last girls to perform the role at the Victoria Palace before the show went on tour was year-old Claudia Bradley from Leeds who was featured on a BBC programme called Fame. A 20th anniversary Broadway revival, which played at the Martin Beck Theatre now called the Al Hirschfeld Theatre in , entitled Annie, the 20th Anniversary , [5] starred Nell Carter as Miss Hannigan, but controversy surrounded the casting of the titular character.
The original actress cast in the role, Joanna Pacitti, was fired and replaced by her fellow orphan, Brittny Kissinger [6] who usually played orphan July just two weeks before her Broadway debut, while battling bronchitis in Boston. The producers then gave Kissinger the next performance.
The show then moved on to the Oakdale in Connecticut where an insert was placed in the Playbill claiming 'The Role of Annie is now being played by Brittny Kissinger'. Public sentiment seemed to side with Pacitti as she was the winner of a highly publicized contest to find a new Annie sponsored by the department store Macy's. This incident, coupled with the mixed reviews the new staging garnered, doomed it to a short run, although it was followed by a successful national tour.
Kissinger, then 8, became the youngest actress to ever play Annie on Broadway. More controversy surrounding the show involved Nell Carter. Carter reportedly was very upset when commercials promoting the show used a different actress, Marcia Lewis, a white actress, as Miss Hannigan. The producers claimed that the commercials, which were made during an earlier production, were too costly to reshoot.
Carter felt that racism played a part in the decision. However, the ads did mention that Carter was in the show. Carter is black. Producers have said it is too expensive to film a new commercial. The revival closed on October 19, after 14 previews and performances. The show was revived at the Victoria Palace, running from 30 September to 28 February In the spring of , Ashley Wieronski, who had been playing Duffy, moved up to play Annie.
In July , Dana Benedict took over as Annie. A publicist noted that 'each time the show moves to a new city two casts of seven orphans plus two Annies have to be found to join the adult cast. The show proved to be a success, and so for the first two tours and the Malaysian Genting Highlands Production, the role of Annie was then shared by Faye Spittlehouse and a young Lucy May Barker. This particular production toured from — and resumed in September Starting in August , a 30th anniversary traveling production of Annie [15] by NETworks Tours embarked on a multi-city tour.
This production was directed by Martin Charnin. For the 2nd year of the tour, Annie was played by Marissa O'Donnell again. The —08 tour starred Amanda Balon as Annie. The —09 cast for the tour featured Tianna Stevens as Annie. Early in , Amanda Balon returned temporarily to play the role of Annie until Madison Kerth was rehearsed to play the title role.
Also returning were Barton, Andrews and Meisner. Other cast members included Mackenzie Aladjem Molly. A 35th Anniversary production opened on Broadway in Thomas Meehan revised the musical, with James Lapine directing.
Regis respectively. Directed by Martin Charnin, the tour kicked off in Detroit, Michigan. For most of the second year of the tour, Heidi Gray played the red head. For the third and final year of the tour Tori Bates played Annie and became the first bi-racial Annie in a professional production. The production will be identical to the —16 UK and Ireland tour. Due to phenomenal success at the box office, the production extended its limited run, with Meera Syal as Miss Hannigan from 27 November [33] , through to the show's conclusion on 18 February , when it will close to make way for the musical adaptation of Strictly Ballroom.
Extensive reworking of the script and score proved futile, and the project ended before reaching Broadway. In , a second attempt with a different plot and score titled Annie Warbucks was developed in a workshop at the Goodspeed Opera House under the direction of Michael P.
Price where the original Annie enjoyed its world premiere in It has not appeared in any subsequent productions. A 30th anniversary cast recording was released in on Time—Life Records. The rest of the cast is made up of the members of the 30th Anniversary Tour. This recording is a double CD set and includes the entire show as it is performed now on the first disc. The second one includes songs from the sequel, 'Annie 2: Miss Hannigan's Revenge' as well as songs that were cut from or added to the original production.
There is also a song from the Annie Christmas special. The booklet is made up of original drawings by Philo Barnhart, who is the creator of Ariel and Ursula in 'The Little Mermaid', and is presented in a comic book style. In , Macmillan Books published Meehan's novelisation of his script for the musical, later reprinted by Puffin Books in Several of the lyrics from songs from the show were adapted into dialogue and monologue for the novelisation, not least Tomorrow whose main lyric is depicted as being Annie's personal motto.
Meehan used the novel to restore material cut from his original storyline and develop the Annie story into his original concept of what he considered to be a 20th Century American version of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist , albeit with a female rather than male orphan as the protagonist. The novel goes into greater depth regarding the backgrounds of many of the characters and particularly about hardship at the orphanage, at which brutal beatings and emotional abuse from Miss Hannigan are everyday occurrences.
Unlike the high camp portrayal of Miss Hannigan in most productions of the musical, the novelisation — in the tradition of Dickens' original novel of Oliver Twist — emphatically depicts her as a truly sinister and malevolent villainess — 'a skinny hatchet faced woman with short jet-black hair who reminded the orphans of a particularly unpleasant looking — and all too real — Halloween witch'. A greater emphasis is placed on the sheer drudgery and illegality of the orphans' sewing labours in the orphanage basement.
However, whereas in the musical the orphans are not enrolled in school until the final scene, in the novelisation they attend a public school, PS62, where they suffer from snobbery from teachers and harassment from non-orphan pupils, particularly from a spoiled rich girl named Myrtle Vandenmeer.
She then spends several months living in the Hooverville with Sophie and the Apple Seller who is named as G. Randall 'Randy' Whitworth Jr, a former stockbroker left destitute by the Depression who, in the novelisation, are adult characters and a couple.
It is revealed at the end that Randy, Sophie and all the other Hoovervillites had been released from prison and given jobs and homes by Warbucks as gratitude for taking care of Annie.
Also reappearing at the end of the book is Sandy, previously written out of the book while fleeing police during the raid on the Hooverville, who it transpires was successfully traced by agents from Pinkerton hired by Warbucks.
This was a tie-in with the film and was adapted directly from the screenplay.
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