John Doyle directs ANNIE?

[morosco]

Posted: 9/14/06 at 7:00pm

Okay. I know John Doyle didn't direct this production of ANNIE but I run across the picture and I'm like....WTF??!?! Since when did one of the orphans play a tuba??
Broadway Rose Theatre Company

[alliez92092]

Posted: 9/14/06 at 7:03pm

Hahahahaha, if he did direct it, I would pee myself.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 9/14/06 at 7:13pm

Daddy Warbucks on the Bass fiddle ?

[WalkOn]

Posted: 9/14/06 at 7:57pm

It could take place in the prison Mrs. Hannigan is Sent to. It all happens in her mind. While the other woman behind bars take on the various Orphan roles... Send out the Press Release!!!

Updated On: 9/14/06 at 07:57 PM

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 9/14/06 at 7:58pm

What instrument will Sandy play ?

[WalkOn]

Posted: 9/14/06 at 8:20pm

The tromBONE of course.

[MyNameInLights]

Posted: 9/14/06 at 8:24pm

Ba-dum-ching!

[StageManager2]

Posted: 9/14/06 at 8:36pm

"It could take place in the prison Mrs. Hannigan is Sent to. It all happens in her mind. While the other woman behind bars take on the various Orphan roles..."

LOL!

I can totally see that. A cross between MAN OF LA MANCHA and the SWEENEY TODD revival.

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 9/14/06 at 10:45pm

Wasn't there a production which apparently took place in Annie's dream (at the end, she woke up in the orphanage) and the theatre got sued later on?

[C is for Company]

Posted: 9/14/06 at 10:52pm

I could see the lights slowly rising on Hannigan in the corner of an old jail. Various prison figures emerge from all around, circling her: "Who are you?....Say Something!...What did you do to get you here?.....Did you have a trial?". One passes her off a french horn and the tale begins...

This story could unfold quite well.

Updated On: 9/14/06 at 10:52 PM

[SeanMartin]

Posted: 9/14/06 at 11:12pm

Just as technical note: it's not a tuba. I think it's a fleugelhorn. A tuba's horn curves out, not up.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 9/14/06 at 11:15pm

A fleugelhorn...

Sounds like something Rose would say.

[Smaxie]

Posted: 9/15/06 at 12:40am

No, a flugelhorn is like an oversized mellower sounding trumpet. The thing that Chuck Mangione used to play. That does look like a tuba in the Annie photo to me. Tubas were all the rage in all Depression era orphanages.

[Fiction Writer]

Posted: 9/15/06 at 12:54am

SM2.. I love the Golden Girls.

[theaterdude87]

Posted: 9/15/06 at 1:18am

Grace on the tamboreen???ehh spl? hmm sandy could play an instrument too maybe the kazoo??