Annie
From: Thursday, 2nd August 2012
To: Saturday, 4 August 2012
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Synopsis
'Annie' the little girl with nothing in the world except boundless optimism, who finds happiness through her energy and sense of fun. Set in the depression, Annie is left in a cruel orphanage but Daddy Warbuck is on the look out for an orphan to share Christmas with him. Written in 1977 and based on the comic strip by Harold Gray.
Our Review:
3 August 2012
The Manchester Stage Experience is a two-week project offering young actors, singers, dancers and musicians the chance to work in a professional theatre. Impressively the production standards of their latest work Annie are high enough to shame many professional companies. Only some difficulty balancing the sound levels and the occasional flat Lancashire vowel betrays the nature of the company.
Irene Caldwell's costumes use a limited budget to stunning effect; dressing the vast household staff of the Warbucks mansion in colour-coded uniform. The fairy-tale feel of New York is conveyed as visitors stepping off the bus are transformed into a glamorous chorus line.
Director David McNeill uses his massive ensemble (99 members and a dog!) with rare skill and imagination. Annie, the musical tale of a spunky orphan who melts the heart of isolated billionaire Daddy Warbucks, although aimed at young audiences, has a rather grim undertone. McNeill does not dodge ...
Latest User Review
Danielle Gosforth - 18 January 2013:
To the person below... shush. 'OOOOOHHHHH, I THINK IM A CRITIC, OOOOOHHHHHHHH' ...
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Charles Strouse (Music)
Martin Charnin (Lyrics)
Thomas Meehan (Book)
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