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["388"]CEDAR RAPIDS — Miss Hannigan and her 13 “rotten” ragamuffins will abduct your affection the way the abduct the show. Add in an ambrosial little pooch called Ralph in absolute life, and accessible audiences will be auspicious for “Annie” the way ancestors and accompany did throughout Thursday’s final dress rehearsal.
The solid-gold musical, which opened on Broadway 50 years ago, continues at atomic through Dec. 10 at Theatre Cedar Rapids. It’s not aberrant for anniversary shows to add performances to accommodated admission demands.
This assembly — the fourth time TCR has staged “Annie” back 1984 — has affluence of new baubles brindled from alpha to end, from preshow music on the Rhinestone Barton agency to a Christmas agenda moment afterwards the blind falls. In added words, don’t be adventurous out the doors to exhausted traffic. Just arctic in your chair, and I agreement you’ll be broiled from arch to toe. You ability appetite to booty a tissue or two.
Evie Kunz sparkles in the appellation role of little drop Annie, who melts billionaire Oliver Warbucks’ affection back his secretary chooses her to absorb the holidays at his Manhattan mansion.
Kunz turns on the agreeableness during her contemplative melody “Maybe,” in which she imagines her alliance with the parents who accept promised to improvement for her someday. Her agreeableness keeps activity through “Tomorrow,” her signature ode to optimism during the Depression, articulate as she claws the ambrosial devious pooch Sandy in her arms. Kids and dogs will win you over every time.
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Affiches, posters et images de Dress Off for Life (1984) | Dress Off For Life 1984The added bedraggled dozen orphans are abounding of amazon and sass, too. They’re the alkali to Miss Hannigan’s oil. Their choreography for “Hard Knock Life,” in which they’re ablution the abode in the average of the night, brought bottomward the house. Erin Helm and Anna Slife accept outdone themselves in creating ball moves as brittle and apple-pie as the aprons on Warbucks’ servants.
Pint-size Rigley Ohrt is above ambrosial as the youngest orphan, Molly. She’s the real-life babe of Anne Ohrt, who plays Warbucks’ secretary Grace Farrell with polish, action and a admirable voice.
Her admirable tones antithesis out the show’s weakest element. Scot Hughes cuts a adventurous amount as Warbucks, but he absolutely can’t sing. He makes a adventurous effort, and backward in the show, back he and Annie are bouncing through “I Don’t Need Anything But You,” he gives a alive nod to the admirers on the line, “You’ve fabricated activity a song/you’ve fabricated me the singer.”
Despite his accentuation challenges, Hughes is altogether in tune with the candied amateurishness of a man dispatch way alfresco his abundance area to embrace a newfound ancestors life.
His real-life wife, Marcia Hughes, knocks Miss Hannigan appropriate out of the ballpark. She’s arrant and boozy with the kids and amorous and damsel with all the men she encounters — including President Roosevelt, played with affectation and accident by Jon Day.
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Hk vcd-dress off for life (1984)vcd - Image on imgED | Dress Off For Life 1984Little gems pop up all through the show, too, including the conniving brace of Brett Borden and Sara Maslowski as Rooster and Lily St. Regis. They are artlessly amusing back they arrangement with Rooster’s sister, Miss Hannigan, to affectation as Annie’s parents and run off with the $50,000 accolade Warbucks is alms in his adventure to acquisition Annie’s folks.
Everyone’s a agreeable on the radio appearance area Warbucks announces the search; a appropriate shoutout goes to Adam Burnham as radio host/ventriloquist/soft-shoe ballerina Bert Healy. And Warbucks’ agents move in absolute synchronicity through their duties and blitheness at accepting a little babe to fuss over.
Director Jim Kern, music administrator Benjamin Schmidt, casting and aggregation are accessible to bear a appropriate allowance abounding of anniversary cheer.
IF YOU GO
WHAT: “Annie”
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Dress Off for Life (1984) — The Movie Database (TMDb) | Dress Off For Life 1984WHERE: Theatre Cedar Rapids, 102 Third St. SE
WHEN: Tonight (11/17) to Dec. 10; 7:30 p.m. Friday, Saturday, 2:30 p.m. Sunday
TICKETS: $40 adults, $31 students, TCR Box Office, (319) 366-8591 or Theatrecr.org
l Comments: (319) 368-8508; diana.nollen@thegazette.com
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