New 'Annie' Tour video clips

This has been posted...

...but the videos are quite cute.

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You're right. The show's good, but why bother with a large, Equity production? It's fine in regional houses, and that's how it's been.

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Ya, I posted these...it quickly went to page two, lol.

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See, most people are very suprised when they see this production...they are used to seeing Annie done in community theatres. I wish more people would give this professional production a chance. They might gain more respect for the show.

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They do...but it's the singing overlapping some clips from songs...

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One of the little girls in the show, Casey Whyland, is a good friend of mine. She has done several productions with me in Syracuse, and is incredibly talented. She's the one next to Marissa in "Hard Knock Life." She was in the production of Annie that I was in here, playing Tessie, which is the same part she plays in the show, and the three girls who played Annie, and another girl went down to NY for the audition to get experience... but she got cast, and everyone embraced her with incredible happiness here in Syracuse. She's incredibly talented, and a bunch of us are going down to Philadelphia over Thanksgiving to see her. THere's like 35 of us going... so it's quite exciting.

However, I'm really not excited to see the "Going to Like it Here" Coraeography... at the end, we did a bunch of interesting handwork and Annie was lifted up, and it was a great end to the number... this one is kind of boring... It's almost Kickline music... which could be done... but I wasn't impressed that they were all just standing there, while Grace, and Annie did a turn that looked like they had 5 minutes to coreograph the end of that number... I mean come on... it's an equity production... they should have eye-popping coreography... even if it is Annie...

I'm still excited to see the show.

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Yes, many critics have enjoyed this production.

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I think Marissa sounds really good!

I'm sorry I didn't clarify. I personally did not like it. I linked the review only because I agree with it. Of course, it goes without saying that when I say "it's bad" it's an opinion and I don't expect everyone to agree with me-that's what makes for interesting conversation.

"haha, Broadway Style...if you're pointing to critic response as proof that this is somehow a bad production then your post is not only misinformed, it's lame. "

I find that offensive. Granted, I shouldn't have said it got bad reviewS plural without fully researching but I linked a review that sums up my feelings on the production to provide a valid opinion that I thought was acceptable in the course of message board discourse? I don't appreciate your "jadded theater-goer" attitude which implies that everyone who reads or places some stake in reviews is "lame."

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Updated On: 10/16/05 at 04:13 PM

molly and lindsay ryan(orphans)'s mom has a BWW account...she PMed me...

BS, I'm sorry that I offended you. Now that I know you've seen the production, I can understand your opinion and know that you're NOT just pointing to some random review, one voice out of many, and slamming a show for no particular reason. You're voicing your own opinion, and pointing to someone who agreed with you.

I don't have a problem with people reading reviews, and I don't have a problem with people putting some stake in them, either. I do it every day with movies. I see a bad review for a movie from a reviewr I like, and if I'm already on the fence about it, then I probably won't go pay ten bucks to see it. If I see a good review for a movie I wasn't all that interested in, it may get me to the theater.

What I don't like are people who point to some site like Rotten Tomatoes (a movie review site) and say, "See? Forty per cent, this movie sucks!" I think everyone who ever posts opinions on works of art on the internet should be forced to start off by saying, "It's only my humble opinion, but..."

So, it's only my humble opinion, but I had a delightful time at this production. And, no...I'm not the mom.

OMG. Do we really need ANOTHER FREEKIN production of Annie??? Let it go. Its annoying.