Rosie's Dream Broadway Role? Miss Hannigan

Writing on her blog today, Rosie O'Donnell answered a reader question about what Broadway role would interest her...

"Danielle Writes:

Rosie,

What role on Broadway would you most like? Would you have time for it with your busy life/

I'd definitely buy tickets xx

miss hannigan in annie

and yes
i would try very hard to do it"

http://www.rosie.com/blog/

Roseann "Rosie" O'Donnell is an American stand-up comedian, actress, singer, author and media personality. She has also been a magazine editor and continues to be a celebrity blogger, LGBT rights activist, television producer and collaborative partner in the LGBT family vacation company R Family Vacations.

O'Donnell's stage credits include Find Me, Love, Loss, and What I Wore [Off-Broadway], Fiddler on the Roof [Broadway], Seussical [Broadway], The Cat in the Hat [Replacement], Grease [Broadway]

Producer Arielle Tepper Madover, currently represented on Broadway with the Tony Award®-nominated play Red, announced that she has acquired the production rights for the beloved Tony Award®-winning musical ANNIE and will produce an all-new production of it for Broadway, opening in Fall, 2012.

ANNIE features music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin and book by Thomas Meehan, based on the newspaper character "Little Orphan Annie" by Harold Gray. The original production opened April 21, 1977 at the Alvin Theatre.

ANNIE won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Musical, seven Drama Desk Awards including Best Musical, the Grammy for Best Cast Show Album and seven Tony Awards®, including Best Musical, Best Book (Thomas Meehan) and Best Score (Charles Strouse, Martin Charnin). The show was one of the biggest Broadway musical hits of the 1970s, running for almost six years and playing 2,377 performances.

ANNIE launched five national US companies and dozens of international productions, including two successful West End productions. The musical has been filmed twice, for motion pictures in 1982 and for television in 1999. 20th and 30th Anniversary productions have toured the country.

"We're truly thrilled to have ANNIE return to Broadway in a brand new production," commented authors Charles Strouse, Martin Charnin and Thomas Meehan. "We think it seems like a great time to welcome back the hope, optimism and spirit of ANNIE. She changed our lives forever."

The score for ANNIE includes "Maybe," "It's the Hard Knock Life," "You're Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile," "Easy Street," "I Don't Need Anything But You" and the eternal anthem of optimism, "Tomorrow".

 

 

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