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Directed by Louis Garre
Produced by Don Feely
Music Director Keija Lee
Choreographer Kristen Montecucco
Set Design Louis Garre
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The CastAnnie – Brooke Penni & Hayley Rousselle Miss Hannigan – Diane Gauthier Daddy Warbucks – Randall Hamilton Grace Farrell – Brittany Aamodt Rooster – Brock Bivens Lily – Ashley Mead Franklin D. Roosevelt – Richard White Bert Healy – Robert LeFebvre Fred McCracken – Taylor Miller Molly – Kendall Penni Drake – Gene Bivens Mrs. Pew – Pam Judy Mrs. Greer – Rebecca Bagley
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(click to enlarge) ProducedJuly 31 – August 8, 2009
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It is December of
1933 and America is deep in the midst of the
Great Depression. On the Lower East Side of New York, the Municipal
Orphanage, Girls' Annex, has been the drab home of
Underneath
the 59th Street Bridge is a so-called Hooverville, a
Depression-style shanty town that is home to an assortment of
unemployed New Yorkers who sarcastically let it be known that We'd
Like To Thank You, Herbert Hoover. Annie turns up with
Back at the Orphanage, Miss Hannigan's nerves are at the breaking
point from having to put up with Little Girls when Officer Ward
arrives with Annie in tow. After Officer Ward leaves, Miss Hannigan
is about to clobber Annie when into the Orphanage comes Miss Grace
Farrell, who is the young and beautiful private secretary to Oliver
Warbucks, the billionaire industrialist. Warbucks has decided to
invite an orphan to spend the Christmas holidays at home. And, to
the fury of Miss Hannigan, Annie is chosen by Miss Farrell and
driven off in a limousine.
Annie and Grace arrive at Warbucks's Fifth Avenue mansion, where a platoon of servants is busily cleaning. Annie is delighted to learn that, as a guest, she herself won't have to do any cleaning (I Think I'm Gonna Like It Here). Oliver Warbucks arrives home from a business trip and is unhappy to discover that the orphan invited by Grace isn't a boy. Still, he agrees to take Annie to the movies, to the Roxy Theater, and Warbucks, Annie and Grace walk forty-five blocks to Times Square, through the streets of the city that Warbucks loves best (N.Y.C.) And, while walking with Annie, Warbucks finds himself unexpectedly growing to like her.
A week later, Grace Farrell turns up at the Orphanage to tell
In his Fifth Avenue mansion, Warbucks is about to tell Annie that he
wishes to adopt her. But he first gives her a present - a new l
In Rockefeller Center, on a radio program called "The Oxydent Hour
of Smiles," starring Bert Healy, Warbucks offers a certified check
for $50,000 to anyone who can prove that they are Annie's Later that night, Miss Hannigan has a pair of callers at the Orphanage, Ralph and Shirley Mudge, a couple from Canada who claim to be Annie's parents. The Mudges reveal themselves to be Rooster and Lily in disguise. Rooster offers to cut his sister in on the $50,000 reward money if she'll provide him and Lily with details they'll need to pass themselves off as Annie's parents.
In Washington, at the White House, President Roosevelt and his
Cabinet mirror the national gloom as they listen to a radio tirade
against FDR. Warbucks arrives with Annie, who innocently blurts out
that things are bound to get better soon
At the mansion, Grace sadly tells Warbucks and Annie that all of the
couples who'd claimed to be her parents had turned out to be fakes.
Now,
with seemingly no hope left of finding Annie's parents, Warbucks
says to Annie that he'd like to adopt her. She's delighted, he's
delighted, and
At a party in the mansion to celebrate the adoption, the happy
Servants feel as though it's Christmas every day since Annie came
along (Annie). As the adoption papers are about to be signed,
Rooster and Lily, in their disguises as the Mudges, show up at the
party and claim that Annie is their daughter. And they have a fake
birth certificate to prove it, plus, thanks to Miss Hannigan's
connivance, half of a silver locket that appears to fit Annie's
half. Warbucks is
Christmas morning, 1933, in the Warbucks mansion. Warbucks, Grace
and FDR have been up all night, in constant telephone contact with
the FBI, and they have unhappy news for Annie - her mother and
father died many years ago. But then who are Ralph and Shirley Mudge?
And who knew about the locket? Miss Hannigan! The Orphans and Miss
Hannigan arrive to spend Christmas at the mansion. Rooster and Lily,
again in their disguises as the Mudges, come to collect Annie and
the check for $50,000.
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the story… 
