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Format: Comedy
Genre: Musical
Date: March 8 2016
Location: Liverpool Empire Theatre
Although the young children who will want to see Annie on stage will have the 2014 movie in mind, Annie itself was actually originally a Broadway musical, first performed in 1977. And the recent film adaptation is actually the third movie to focus on Annie's story: the original movie (often considered to be the best of the trilogy, if you can call it that) was released in 1982, followed by a 1999 flick produced for television by Disney, and finally the aforementioned remake from 2014.
Regardless of where you first heard about Annie, though, the main story remains very similar to that of its predecessors. It's New York City just before Christmas 1932 and Annie (Anya Evans), one of eight orphans living in Miss Hannigan's Municipal Girls Orphanage, dreams about one day leaving to find her true parents, especially since Hannigan (Lesley Joseph) treats the children terribly by forcing them to constantly work, particularly through sewing. Annie makes a failed escape attempt and Hannigan thinks that Annie is once again under her control, until a lady named Grace Farrell (Holly Dale Spencer) pops around. It turns around that the famous billionaire Mr. Warbucks (Alex Bourne) is looking to bring an orphan to live in his mansion over the winter holidays, and given the description that Grace provides, Annie is the perfect choice, much to Hannigan's chagrin.
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