I LOVE taking my kids to the theater. We’ve had some really fun one-on-one experiences at the Paramount and I was so excited to see that ANNIE will play Seattle’s Paramount Theater from September 20-26, 2015. The musical will be directed by original lyricist and director Martin Charnin for the 19th time. This production of ANNIE is a brand new show based on the iconic Tony Award®-winning original.
The original production of ANNIE opened April 21, 1977 at the Alvin Theatre and went on to win the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Musical, seven Drama Desk Awards including Best Musical, the Grammy for Best Cast Show Album and seven Tony Awards®, including Best Musical, Best Book (Thomas Meehan) and Best Score (Charles Strouse, Martin Charnin). The show remains one of the biggest Broadway musical hits ever. It ran for 2,377 performances after it first opened, and has been performed in 28 languages and has been running somewhere around the world for 37 years.
The beloved score for ANNIE includes “Maybe,” “It’s the Hard Knock Life,” “You’re Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile,” “Easy Street,” “I Don’t Need Anything But You” and the eternal anthem of optimism, “Tomorrow.”
This brand new production features a 25 member company: in the title role of Annie is Issie Swickle, a 10-year-old actress from Davie, FL, making her tour debut. Gilgamesh Taggett will star as Oliver Warbucks. In the role of Miss Hannigan is Lynn Andrews. Also starring in the tour are Ashley Edler as Grace, Garrett Deagon as Rooster, Lucy Werner as Lily and Jeffrey B. Duncan as FDR. Sunny, a 5-year-old rescue terrier mix, stars as Sandy.
ANNIE will be at Seattle’s Paramount Theatre for eight performances. The schedule for the Seattle engagement is:
Sunday, September 20 1:00 pm and 6:30pm – An Open Caption performance
Tuesday, September 22 7:30pm
Wednesday, September 23 7:30pm
Thursday, September 24 7:30pm
Friday, September 25 8:00pm
Saturday, September 26 2:00pm – An ASL / AVIA Interpreted performance and 8:00pm
*For tickets to the ASL- Open Caption performances, call the TTY line at 888-331-6774
Tickets for ANNIE start at $25 and will be available on-line at stgpresents.org and tickets.com, by calling 877-STG-4TIX (784-4849), at select Ticketmaster locations and in person at The Paramount Theatre Box Office (Monday through Friday, 10am to 6pm).
For tickets and information, visit:
@ANNIEonTour
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