"Oh look at the time, three more intelligent plays just closed and THE ADDAMS FAMILY made another million dollars" -Jackie Hoffman, Broadway.com Audience Awards
I rather love the incredibly tacky "HBomb" necklace
"Grease," the fourth revival of the season, is the worst show in the history of theater and represents an unparalleled assault on Western civilization and its values. - Michael Reidel
From what I can tell, this adaptation of Annie is for people who don't already know and love Annie (the musical).
This is going to be nothing remotely like the stage show or the previous film and TV versions.
It's not that Annie. At all. Except for a shell of the plot and a few of the songs. Otherwise, it's entirely different.
My advice: Don't expect to be familiar with any of it when you see it.
I won't have that problem, because I won't be seeing it. It doesn't interest me. But I'm clearly not the audience they're looking for. I'm not sure who they think they're making this film for, but it's definitely not me. And that's fine.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
blocked: logan2, Diamonds3, Hamilton22
Would have been funnier if they made Hannigan stuck in the seventies with a Dorothy Hamill bob or a Lee Grant penis head.
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
I really do not get what they are trying to do here... Annie is such an iconic figure. I feel like you can't really make so many drastic changes and still call it "Annie".
"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "
"You know what would be good? Taking Annie out of the depression and set in modern day where the entire concept of Annie will not only not work, but come off incredibly exploitative! Rich man taking in an orphan for 2 weeks for the free publicity only to drop her back off at the orphanage? In 2013? SURE! It'd work for sure!"