Annie’s National Tour Is Nothing New, Yet Always Welcome
Turn that frown upside-down.
Any review of Annie must open with the old theatre adage: ‘Never work with children or animals.’
It’s a line with some merit to it, of course, and it’s not hard to tell where it came from. Serious thespians were tired of being upstaged by adorable children and wagging pups! I get it.
But does that apply when the show is about those adorable children? And the emotional arc of the show hinges on a wagging pup?
You already know that the kids are the stars of the show in Annie, whose National Tour has stopped at Washington D.C.’s National Theatre. And you know that all of its themes and messages are told through the eyes of a child. But this time, that’s quite literally true.