NBC's ANNIE LIVE! (2021) - News & Discussion Thread — Page 5

JBroadway said: "CarlosAlberto said: "missthemountains said: "After three film versions, haven't we suffered enough? Who is asking for this?"

Apparently we haven't suffered enough so on top of a pandemic they're torturing us with this.My first reaction was, "This again...?" Ugh."



Literally no one is forcing you to watch this. If you want, you can completely ignore than this is even happening. I know from experience because I'vebeen ignoring these broadcasts for years. There are some where I totally forgot they even happened. The only reason I'm paying attention to this one is because it happens to be one that I might enjoy. Otherwise I probably would have just skipped over the thread and moved on with my life. If this sounds like such torture to you, you should probably do the same.

 

First of all thank you for your concern, that is too sweet. I am well aware that no one is forcing me to watch this. But, I do have a right to post my opinion on a very public, internet message board, and so I did. So with that being said, no one is forcing YOU to read my posts and YOU can ignore every single one of them regarding this or any other subject by (a) scrolling past them or (b) using the handy-dandy ignore feature provided by our friendly BWW administrators, take your pick.

Thank you, have a nice day. ​​​​​​​

 

Jordan Catalano said: "To those talking about the movie, don’t forget it was such an awful film it made Cameron Diaz retire from acting."

Weirdly enough despite critic's tearing apart her singing, I thought Cameron Diaz was one of the few things that worked about the 2014 Annie movie. Her voice I will admit was not the best and the autotune only made it worse, but her acting was actually really great. 

2014 Annie's biggest flaw was their reimagining of Daddy Warbucks's as Stacks. Making him a Billionaire turned Politician somewhat defeats the purpose of Warkbucks' character arch. Yes they are both out of touch with the everyday New Yorker, but the political subplot simply makes everything Stacks does literally feel calculated especially since we are shown most of it is. Thus nothing he does feels geniune. This was especially apparent with N.Y.C being replaced by The City is Yours. NYC gives the audience a glimpse into Warbucks through cold perspective of NYC as old money, compared to Grace's more rundown perspective as a "Working Class New Yorker", and then we get "A Star to Be"'s overly optimistic view as someone just arriving to the City. In the "The City is Yours" is basically trying to simultaneously show off his work and its impact on NYC to Annie to impress her, while also giving her this weird pep talk. The taking of the political subplot of Annie and making it the main plotline just make the plot and the relationships feel forced. 

CarlosAlberto said: "santeFEEE said: "Jessica Lange for Hannigan? "

Thank you sooo much for this! HILARIOUS!!! I would probably pay good money to see her in the role!

Since the casting choices on here are clearly aging the characters up I suggest:

Michael Douglas for Daddy Warbucks

Al Pacino for Rooster

Beverly D'Angelo as Lily St. Regis

Kathie Lee Gifford as Grace

Amanda Seyfried as Annie


 

1. I hope they keep all of the political subplots (something that was omitted in the Disney Adaptation.) Herbert Hoover could be a rousing number on the broadcast.

2. I hope they give the maybe/tomorrow reprise to Grace.

2. Alicia Morton is still around. It would be a treat if she was the star to be.

Yes, Maya, please.

I'm just glad it's not "Hair". I wonder,,  will they think to have understudies?

Tapping23 said: "Surprised nobody has mentioned Andrea McArdle for Hannigan"'

She played it and was terrible. YouTube has recorded moments of the tragedy.

Mr Roxy said: "Better choice was the little seen Annie Warbucks

Instead of a yearly revival of Annie I wished for a full Broadway staging of Annie Warbucks."

If by better choice you mean commercially wrongheaded then sure 

I hope they film this live from New York. It would be a great welcome back for Broadway too. (Use the Today show set, Theatre district, New York STREETS, Carnegie Hall/RADIO CITY, Rockefeller centre, it could all be quite thrilling)

dp 

Updated On: 5/14/21 at 02:13 PM

Theatrefanboy1 said: "I hope they film this live from New York. It would be a great welcome back for Broadway too. (Use the Today show set, Theatre district, New York STREETS,Carnegie Hall/RADIO CITY, Rockefeller centre, it could all be quite thrilling)"

YES- just imagine how thrilling “NYC” would be if this were the case.