Annie Jr. Performed by the wonderful and ambitious young performers from Bracknell’s Artemis Studios Performing Arts Schools, with Junior Theatre Company, Little Actors and members of Medusa, our cast are aged 4-18. Musical Direction by Keir Buist (South Hill Park panto, Yellow Brick Road, Three Dot Theatre), choreographed by Grace O’Sullivan (POSH, Carrie, Yellow Brick Road) and directed by Joe Hannay (POSH, Footloose, Carrie).
Based on the popular comic strip and adapted from the Tony Award-winning Best Musical, with a beloved book and score by Tony Award-winners, Thomas Meehan, Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin, Annie JR. features everyone’s favorite little redhead in her very first adventure.With equal measures of pluck and positivity, little orphan Annie charms everyone’s hearts despite a next-to-nothing start in 1930s New York City. Annie is determined to find the parents who abandoned her years ago on the doorstep of an orphanage run by the cruel Miss Hannigan. Annie eventually foils Miss Hannigan’s evil machinations, finding a new home and family in billionaire Oliver Warbucks, his personal secretary, Grace Farrell, and a lovable mutt named Sandy.
Performed on licence from MTI Europe.
Artemis Studios and College is a charity for the performing arts community, based at South Hill Park.