Riverdale Junior Rising Stars
presents
ANNIE JR.
Six performances only:
June 4-14, 2015
The sun will come out tomorrow! Riverdale Junior Rising Stars proudly presents ANNIE JR., a condensed version of the beloved Broadway musical about a penniless red-headed orphan and the billionaire who adopts her. This production will be performed for six performances only:
Thursday, June 4 at 7pm
Sunday, June 7 at 1pm
Sunday, June 7 at 5:30pm
Thursday, June 11 at 7pm
Sunday, June 14 at 1pm
Sunday, June 14 at 5:30pm
Performances will be held at the Riverdale YM-YWHA, located at 5625 Arlington Avenue (just off of Riverdale Avenue and West 256th Street), in Riverdale, Bronx, NY.
Advance tickets are $12 (students/seniors) and $20 (adults) and may be purchased by calling Brown Paper Tickets at 1-800-838.3006 or online. Day-of-show tickets may be purchased at the door prior to showtime for $14 (students and seniors) and $22 (adults).
ABOUT THE SHOW
It’s a hard-knock life for little orphan Annie. It’s the height of the Great Depression, and she lives in an orphanage run by the cruel Miss Hannigan. Annie is determined to find her parents. Armed with her irrepressible optimism, a huge heart, and her faithful dog Sandy, Annie sets off on adventure through the streets of New York City, to the White House, and finally into the arms of Daddy Warbucks, and a real home at last!
ANNIE JR. is based on Harold Gray’s comic strip Little Orphan Annie, and features music by Charles Strouse (Bye Bye Birdie) with lyrics by Martin Charnin, and a book by Thomas Meehan (The Producers, Hairspray). The indelible score is chock-full of such now-classic songs as “It’s a Hard-Knock Life,” “Maybe,” “I Think I’m Gonna Like It Here,” “You’re Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile,” and of course, “Tomorrow.”
Featuring a rotating cast of 80 children ages 7 to 12 from Riverdale, Upper Manhattan, Yonkers, and beyond, the Junior Rising Stars production of ANNIE JR. is directed by Lesly de Groot, with music direction by Joshua Axelrod and choreography by Megan MacPhee. The design team includes Eric Zoback (Set Design), Tony Wan (Set Building), Kate Stigdon (Scenic painting), David Pentz (Lighting Design ) and Denise Eberly (Sound Design).
The original Broadway production of ANNIE opened in 1977, and won seven Tony Awards, including Best Musical, and wan for over six years. Tony-nominated Broadway revivals opened in 1997 and 2013, The show also inspired the sequel Annie 2: Miss Hannigan’s Revenge, which played in Washington DC in 1989, which was revised as Annie Warbucks, and ran Off-Broadway in 1993.
ANNIE has had three separate film versions: in 1982 with Carol Burnett, Albert Finney, Bernadette Peters, Tim Curry, and Ann Reinking; in a 1999 television version with Victor Garber, Kathy Bates, Audra McDonald, Alan Cumming, and Kristin Chenoweth; and in a contemporary adaptation in 2014 with Jamie Foxx, Cameron Diaz, and Quvenzhané Wallis.
