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Annie

STORY

It's 1933 and Annie is living in the municipal orphanage in New York’s Lower East Side. Miss Hannigan is the mean-spirited principal in charge of the orphanage. Grace Farrell, secretary to billionairre Oliver Warbucks, invites Annie back to the Warbucks’s household to celebrate Christmas. Warbucks takes to Annie and uses the Bert Healy radio show to offer a reward of $50,000 to anyone who can prove they are Annie’s parents. Miss Hannigan’s brother Rooster and he and his girlfriend, Lily St Regis, suggest that they claim Annie as their daughter and thus the reward that goes with the information. Just where does Annie belong?

 

WHEN AND WHERE
10th-13th November 2004
Broxbourne Civic Hall, High Street, Hoddesdon, Herts, EN11 8BE

 

CAST

Annie  Shannon Knights
'Daddy' Oliver Warbucks Daniel Goode
Miss Hannigan Jo-Anne Wesley
Grace Hailey Lambert
Rooster Alex Budd
Lily St Regis Madeline Stoller
Drake Gordon Sutterby
Roosevelt Doug Wildey
Bert Healey Phil Watkins
The Boylen Sisters  Miranda Wollnough, Lacey Cousins, Liz Walkling
Sophie Cheryl Barrett
Fred Wayne Howsen
Ira Shirley Bullock
Peggy Pat Stoller
Mrs Pugh Maureen Watson
Mrs Greer Lyn Hudson
 Cecile Joyce Simkins
Star to be Maxine Martin
Bundles Barry Stoller
Wacky and McCraken Jermaine Williams
 Perkins Russell Muir
Hull Nigel Fruin
Apple Seller Zoe Warren
Jane Robyn Tigwell
Lizzie Kirsten Burnie
Nellie Francesca Walters
 Sandy Jake Fruin
 The Orphans
  
 Duffy Amy
Pepper Jody
July Victoria M
Tessie Sain
Kate Victoria J
Molly Justine
Martha Chelsea
Alice Shannon L
Rose Georgia W
Betsy Georgia B
Pip Alice
Iris Alicia
George  Georgina
Nancy Hailey
Polly Kelly
Cookie Gracie
Lolly Charis
Adult chorus Cheryl Barrett, Shirley Bullock, Kirsten Burnie, Lacey Cousins, Nigel Fruin, Wayne Howsen, Lyn Hudson, Matt Hudson, Maxine Martin, Russell Muir, Joyce Simkins, Berry Stoller, Pat Stoller, Gordon Sutterby, Robyn Tigwell, Liz Walkling, Francesca Walters, Zoe Warren, Phil Watkins, Maureen Watson, Doug Wildey, Jermaine Williams, Miranda Woolnough.

Directed by Debbie Howsen
Choreographed by Debbie Howsen
Musically directed by Rosamond Savournin 

 

GALLERY

The Boylen SistersDaddy WarbucksLocal hobosMaidsSandyAnnie and Miss Hannigan

 

REVIEWS

Annie: the cure for Depression
Herts Mercury Magazine review

"The staging was well thought out and there were some impressive sets, from the grim darkness of the orphanage dormitory to the marble staircase in Daddy Warbucks’s Fifth Avenue mansion."

"Jo-Anne Wesley as the gin-soaked orphanage principal, Miss Hannigan, stole every scene she was in, and the high-kicking rivalry between her and gangster’s moll Lily St Regis (Madeline Stoller) was hilarious."

"Eleven year old Shannon Knights played Annie and played her well – endearing without being overbearing and with a credible New York accent. Her rendition of Maybe, her dream that her parents will one day return for her, was particularly moving."