Upcoming Events

The Middleburg Players
presents

ANNIE

Performances will be at Upperville's Buchanan Hall Friday and Saturday evenings at 7:30 PM, July 23-July 24 and July 30 - 31,
with Sunday matinees at 2:00 PM on July 25th and August 1. Tickets are $25.00 adults/$15 for children 12 and under.
For reservations please call The Little River Inn at (703) 327-4206.

Annie is a Broadway musical based upon the popular Harold Gray comic strip Little Orphan Annie,
with music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin, and the book by Thomas Meehan.
The musical ran for nearly six years on Broadway, and received Tony awards for Best Musical,
Best Original Score and Best Book.

The play opens circa 1933 in New York City's Municipal Orphanage, presided over by the vile Miss Agatha Hannigan
(Anne-Charlotte Robinson). Annie (Kyra Meyers), one of the residents, longs for parental intervention to deliver her
from this misery. An attempt to escape, during which she meets her life companion-pet, mutt Sandy, is aborted and
Annie is returned to face the wrath of Miss Hannigan. Miraculously, this coincides with the arrival of billionaire
Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks' secretary (Maryanne Withers) who has come to take Annie to Warbucks' (Sam McCrea)
mansion for Christmas as a random philanthropic act. Despite his initial surprise at her gender, the rich man soon
warms to Annie for her feistiness and she in turn teaches the workaholic tycoon to enjoy life more. Warbucks grows
to love the little girl and plans to adopt her despite the objections and plotting of Hannigan. While visiting his personal
friend President Roosevelt to seek intervention, a plot to falsify Annie's parentage is thwarted and amid general
rejoicing all look forward to "a new deal."

Songs include "It's a Hard-Knock Life," "N.Y.C.," "You're Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile," and the show-stopping "Tomorrow."

Directed by Alyn Beachamp, Produced by Laurie Maggiano, with Musical Director and Conductor Eric Dombrowski, and Choreographer Peggy Doerwaldt.