Annie (musical)

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Title: Annie
Original language: English
Music: Charles Strouse
Book: Thomas Meehan
Lyrics: Martin Charnin
Literary source: Little Orphan Annie by Harold Gray
Premiere: April 21, 1977
Place of premiere: Alvin (today: Neil Simon Theater ) in New York

Annie is a musical based on Harold Gray's popular comic Little Orphan Annie . It was composed by Charles Strouse , the lyrics are by Martin Charnin and the book was written by Thomas Meehan . The musical contains the well-known songs "Tomorrow" and "It's a Hard Knock Life" .

The premieres took place on April 21, 1977 at the Alvin Theater (today: Neil Simon Theater ) in New York and on May 3, 1978 at the Victoria Palace Theater in London's West End . The German-language premiere was on December 20, 1980 in the Landestheater Detmold , the translation by Danny Brees and Fritz Wolter. Since December 2013 Annie has been distributed in the new translation by Jürgen Hartmann (book) and Holger Hauer (lyrics) through Verlag Musik und Bühne .

action

first act

Annie is an 11 year old orphan (her birthday is October 28, 1922 and the story begins in 1933) who lived in New York during the Great Depression. The play begins on a December night when an orphan named Molly wakes up, frightened by a dream about her parents. Annie shows the girl a note in a heart-shaped locket that promises her parents will pick her up one day.

A short time later, Annie believes that her parents will not come to her and decides to flee the orphanage to look for her. But this attempt is foiled by Miss Hannigan, the cruel orphanage director. The children are forced to clean up the orphanage so late at night. Annie uses this to flee in the laundry basket of the laundry man Bundles McClocksey.

During her escape, Annie meets a dog named Sandy and runs into a group of people in a Hooverville . But as a result of a robbery, Annie loses track of Sandys and is brought back to the orphanage by the police. Grace Farrell, secretary to billionaire Oliver Warbucks, arrives just minutes after arriving there. Warbucks would like an orphan to spend the Christmas holidays at their home (reasons for adoption vary from inheritance to public relations). Annie is chosen by Grace.

The staff at Warbucks' mansion give Annie a warm welcome. Warbucks, on the other hand, is a bit hesitant at first. The two strengthen their bond through various smaller excursions. Warbucks soon decides to adopt Annie. Miss Hannigan is visibly upset about this. With the help of their brother Rooster and his friend Lily St. Regis, the three of them work out a plan to get rich through Annie.

Warbucks buys Annie a new heart-shaped locket to ask for consent to adopt. But the girl struggles when he tries to take the old locket from her. So he realizes that Annie still wants to find her parents and vows to help her.

Second act

Warbucks and Annie appear on the radio and run a public search for Annie's parents. Warbucks is offering the real parents $ 50,000. The radio broadcast is heard by the orphans and Miss Hannigan. Rooster and Lily plan to play Annie's parents, with Miss Hannigan's knowledge of the second half of the medallion, take the money and leave town.

Warbucks and Annie inspire President Roosevelt and his cabinet to New Deal reforms during a visit to the White House . A letter from the FBI indicates that it will be impossible to identify Annie's parents through the locket. Over a thousand alleged parents were exposed as liars. Therefore, Annie agrees to her adoption.

At a party for Annie's adoption, Rooster and Lily appear as Ralph and Shirley Mudge, pretending to be Annie's parents. Because the couple has a fake birth certificate and the other half of the locket, Warbucks accepts them as Annie's parents. He invites the couple to take Annie with them the next day, Christmas Day.

Warbucks and the surprised Annie are saddened by this change. But the FBI news comes quickly - Annie's real parents, David and Margaret Bennett, have died. Lily, Rooster and their accomplice Hannigan are arrested. The play ends with the adoption of Annie by Warbucks and the reunion of Sandy and Annie.

Stage productions

Pre-Broadway
Annie was first performed on August 10, 1976 at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam , Connecticut .

Broadway
The original Broadway production ran 2,377 times. She was nominated for eleven Tony Awards and won seven, including "Best Musical", "Best Score" and "Best Book".

London cast In
1978 Annie started with a different cast in London's West End and reached 1,485 performances.

Sequels
A continuation under the name Annie II: Miss Hannigan's Revenge (Miss Hannigan's Revenge) was in the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC premiered in December 1989th In 1993 the play Annie Warbucks was performed at the Variety Arts Theater in New York.

Broadway Revival
For Broadway's 20th birthday, the play was revived in 1997.

Germany
Parallel to Broadway's 20th birthday, the piece was also staged in Germany by the Munich Musical Theater in 1997 and 1998. It ran first in Munich and then on tour in the Rhine-Main area.

2005–2007 Tour
For the thirtieth birthday of the musical in 2005, Annie went on tour through Network Tours. Due to the success, the originally planned eleven months were extended until 2007.

2007 - Stadttheater Wels and Landestheater Linz
Musical Theater Academy Puchenau, directed by Nikki Howes

2012 - Stadttheater Bad Hall
Bad Haller musical productions, Musical Theater Academy Puchenau, symphony orchestra of the cultural organizations of Upper Austria,
artistic director Thomas Kerbl, musical director Walter Rescheneder, choreography Nikki Howes

2012 - Tulln and Krems on the Danube

2014 - Stadttheater Baden, Austria
Die Bühne Baden produces the musical under the musical direction of Oliver Ostermann in a production by Alexandra Frankmann-Koepp.

2017 - Stuttgart Off-Broadway Theater Company
The Stuttgart Off-Broadway Theater Company under the direction of Patrick Schenk and Alexandra Bode brings the play 2018/2019 in Stuttgart in the Stuttgart version on stage. Director: Rainer Niermann, Choreography: Andrew Hunt, Producer: Christian Million

2018 - Opera Hall

Hall production under the musical direction of Peter Schedding and under the direction of Peter Dehler.

2019 - City Hall Chemnitz

The Chemnitz production directed by Wieland Müller, played by the team of the "Studio WM - Workshop for Music and Theater - Chemnitz".

Song sequence

Act 1

  • overture
  • Maybe - Annie & Orphans
  • Hard Knock Life - Annie & Orphans
  • Hard Knock Life (Reprise) - Orphans
  • Tomorrow - Annie
  • Hooverville - Hooverville Group & Annie
  • Little Girls - Miss Hannigan
  • I Think I'm Gonna Like It Here - Grace, Annie & Clerk
  • NYC - Warbucks, Grace, Annie
  • Easy Street - Miss Hannigan, Rooster, Lily
  • Why Should I Change a Thing? - Warbucks *
  • You Won't Be an Orphan for Long - Grace, Drake, Employees, Annie, Warbucks

Act 2

  • Fully Dressed - Healy, Boylan Sisters
  • Fully Dressed (Children) - orphans
  • Easy Street (Reprise) - Miss Hannigan, Rooster, Lily
  • Tomorrow (Cabinet Reprise) - Annie, Roosevelt, Warbucks, Cabinet
  • Something Was Missing - Warbucks
  • I Don't Need Anything But You - clerks, Warbucks, Annie, Grace, Drake, Chorus
  • Maybe (reprise) - Annie
  • New Deal for Christmas - All

* Added in 2004

Movies

cinemamovies

The film Annie was produced by Columbia Pictures in 1982 . Aileen Quinn played Annie, Albert Finney Mr. Warbucks, Carol Burnett Miss Hannigan, Bernadette Peters Lily, Ann Reinking Grace and Tim Curry Rooster.
The film also picked up Warbuck's employees from the comic. The film was directed by John Huston as his first and only film musical. The reviews have diverged, and the film didn't make the $ 57 million it cost. There were also some changes to the musical:

  • The film is not set in the Christmas season, but in June and July. The Independence Day celebration ended the film.
  • In the film, Annie is kidnapped by Hannigan, Rooster and Lily. Warbucks is organizing a citywide search. His bodyguards rescue Annie and bring her back safely.
  • Four new songs appeared in the film: Dumb Dog , Let's Go to the Movies , Sign, and We got Annie . In return, the pieces Hooverville , Why should I Change a Thing? , NYC , You Won't be an Orphan for Long , Something was Missing , Annie and New Deal for Christmas abbreviated.

In 2014, Annie was remake by Columbia Pictures in association with Village Roadshow and Overbrook Entertainment. Quvenzhané Wallis , Jamie Foxx , Rose Byrne , Bobby Cannavale , Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje , David Zayas and Cameron Diaz star in the lead roles . The film premiered in German cinemas on January 15, 2015.

TV movie

In 1999 the television film appeared, in which Kathy Bates played Miss Hannigan, Kristin Chenoweth Lily, Victor Garber Mr. Warbucks, Alan Cumming Rooster and newcomer Alicia Morton Annie. It was produced by the Walt Disney Company and received good reviews. In 1999 he received the George Foster Peabody Award . Although it was closer to the musical than the movie, the story was compressed and made child-friendly.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Annie - The musical for the whole family in the Wizemann in Stuttgart. Retrieved September 11, 2019 .
  2. ^ Annie, Oper Halle. Retrieved October 3, 2019 .
  3. ^ Annie - Premiere, Chemnitz. Retrieved October 3, 2019 .
  4. ↑ http://www.annie-film.de/Website Kinofilm 2014

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