What Annie Do you Like?
What Annie Do you Like?
gypsy4
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/07
#1What Annie Do you Like?
Posted: 12/6/08 at 5:50pm
The original 1982 film version? or the 1999 tv remake.
I have to say that I liked the remake better It was just well
done and the cast amazing and It followed the stage versions script closely.
#2re: What Annie Do you Like?
Posted: 12/6/08 at 6:14pmI like the remake better, but I wish it had the budget of the 1982 film. Victor Garber was GREAT as Daddy Warbucks.
degrassifan
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/23/08
#2re: What Annie Do you Like?
Posted: 12/6/08 at 8:16pmI love love love the 1999 version way better. It gets straight to the point and the ending was much better.
#3re: What Annie Do you Like?
Posted: 12/6/08 at 9:31pmI wish the performances in the original film were meshed with the script and song selection for the remake. But if I have to choose, I'll take the remake.
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BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#4re: What Annie Do you Like?
Posted: 12/6/08 at 11:23pm
Being an ardent fan of ANNIE since I first saw the show back in early summer 1977, I like both the 1982 film-version and the 1999 TV movie equally as they are both 2 different entities. Yes, the 1999 TV movie version IS more faithful to the original stage version but you really can't beat the 1982 film-version's cast. It was literally the perfect dream cast: Carol Burnett as Miss Hannigan, Bernadette Peters as Lily St. Regis, Tim Curry as Rooster Hannigan, Ann Reinking as Grace Farrell and Albert Finney as Oliver Warbucks... need I continue?
Its a shame the 1982 film-version chose to add elements and characters from the original Harold Gray comic strip (Punjab, etc.) and replaced too many perfect songs that it became its own version of ANNIE, separate from the stage version. The 1999 TV movie brought us back a semblance of the original stage version but not completely either. ANNIE without "A New Deal for Christmas" just isn't ANNIE.
#5re: What Annie Do you Like?
Posted: 12/6/08 at 11:44pmBut wasn't Carol Burnett wrong for Hannigan? Like Lucille Ball in "Mame." It should have been great, but wasn't.
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#7re: What Annie Do you Like?
Posted: 12/7/08 at 12:15amI thought that Burnett's Hannigan was one of her best roles...
desiree armfeldt
Broadway Star Joined: 1/8/07
#8re: What Annie Do you Like?
Posted: 12/7/08 at 12:33amI actually like the 1982 film a lot more than the remake. There was something about the 1999 Annie (who's name is escaping me right now) that didn't feel right to me. But, I could be completely biased...I watched Aileen Quinn in Annie probably every weekend as a child.
#9re: What Annie Do you Like?
Posted: 12/7/08 at 12:53am
I hate the 1982 Annie. The added subplots and characters are stupid and the new songs hardly hold up to some of the originals (why would you replace NYC?). And while I do like some the cast (Curry and Peters are pretty good), I think Burnett sucked as Hannigan.
I greatly prefer the 1999 remake. It isn't perfect (I wish it had We'd Like to Thank You Herbert Hoover), but I really enjoy it.
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
#10re: What Annie Do you Like?
Posted: 12/7/08 at 1:41amI like the remake better as well, but I do like Carol Burnett's Hannigan.
gypsy4
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/07
#12re: What Annie Do you Like?
Posted: 12/7/08 at 1:56am
I thought the ending of the 1982 version was to much for annie. the only thing that the 1982 version in common with the original stage version is that they incorperated the songs it was more faithul to the commic and carol burnett the talented actress she is I didn't like her miss hannigan.
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george95
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/1/08
#13re: What Annie Do you Like?
Posted: 12/7/08 at 2:18am
Being that I was 5 when the 1982 version of Annie came out, I had the record, which I played on my record player every single day, and the movie on BETA which I watched probably a couple times a week. From a child's point of view, it was a great movie. Carol Burnett was so scary yet funny as the drunken orphan-hater. I think they did a great job of delving into a child's greatest fear: losing your parents and having to scrub floors in dirty old orphanage with a mean drunk yelling at you. And then, they present a child's greatest dream: being given not only all the toys and presents you could ever want, but also a loving family.
And I also loved how all the other orphans, especially "Groooover! Why not think it ooooooover!" were so much better singers than Annie. : )
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
eatlasagna
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#15re: What Annie Do you Like?
Posted: 12/7/08 at 3:55ami would always watch the 1980s version on tv when i was little.. didn't know anything about the stage show at all... so when i finally saw the actual touring show in like 98... i read the playbill and was like "where the hell is Punjab" and at the end of the show i kept thinking "where's the huge crane she's supposed to climb up on"... i was disappointed.. haha..
#16re: What Annie Do you Like?
Posted: 12/7/08 at 4:02amI prefer the 1995 version starring Val Kilmer in the title role.
Usnavi
Stand-by Joined: 12/3/08
#17re: What Annie Do you Like?
Posted: 12/7/08 at 9:59amneither. annie is one of my least favorite musicals.
#18re: What Annie Do you Like?
Posted: 12/7/08 at 10:43am
oh, I grew up being beyond beyond obsessed with the 1982 movie. although I also had a "Where's Punjab?!" moment when I saw the Broadway revival.
I still love the movie, but I wish it had more of the songs from the musical in it. but how hot is Tim Curry as Rooster?
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gypsy4
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/07
#19re: What Annie Do you Like?
Posted: 12/7/08 at 11:00am
when I was little too I used to the original almost every day but then the remake came out and I liked it better.when the local theatre in my town did the show they added punjab. Annie warbucks happened to be the first musical I ever saw.
Updated On: 12/7/08 at 11:00 AM
#21re: What Annie Do you Like?
Posted: 12/7/08 at 6:38pmAre we allowed to vote for the Original Broadway Cast?
ggersten
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#22re: What Annie Do you Like?
Posted: 12/7/08 at 6:44pm
I think Betty Hutton was wrong for the movie - and I don't think Judy Garland would have carried it off - sick or not - although she would have sung the hell out of the Berlin tunes.
Wish I'd seen the TV remake with John Raitt and Mary Martin or the Merman television remake.
I didn't see Bernadette Peters or Reba. I saw Debbie Reynolds do the part on stage, and she was magnificent, and listened to Merman of course.
#23re: What Annie Do you Like?
Posted: 12/7/08 at 6:51pm
Oh thank the lord, there are others who share my complete lack of affection for the redheaded tyke! 
#24re: What Annie Do you Like?
Posted: 12/10/08 at 4:44amThe 1982 cast was perfection. Carol Burnett, Bernadette Peters, and Ann Reinking...I was in heaven!!!!
Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.- Bette Davis
