NEWS TICKER
Miranda Hart To Make West End Debut As Miss Hannigan In Annie
Published on
February 16, 2017
By
douglasmayo
Annie is headed back to London's West End, this time featuring multi award-winning comedy writer, actor and author Miranda Hart in her West End stage debut as the infamous Miss Hannigan! Annie will open at the Piccadilly Theatre in May 2017 directed by Nikolai Foster and produced by Michael Harrison and David Ian.
Bookings for Annie open Friday 17 February 2017 with our exclusive Pre-Sale Period.
Set in 1930s New York during The Great Depression, brave young Annie is forced to live a life of misery and torment at Miss Hannigan’s orphanage. Her luck changes when she is chosen to spend Christmas at the residence of famous billionaire, Oliver Warbucks. Meanwhile, spiteful Miss Hannigan has other ideas and hatches a plan to spoil Annie’s search for her true family…
Miranda Hart said: “Miss Hannigan is a dream role, and certainly has been for me, but I never thought it would be a reality. But here we are and I have a newly found musical theatre-esque spring in my step! I hope people will leave the theatre feeling life is a little better and dreamier and jollier after watching it, as much as we feel that performing it. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have some leg-warmers to put on…”
Annie has book by Thomas Meehan adapted from the comic strip Little Orphan Annie, music by Charles Strouse and lyrics by Martin Charnin. The West End production will have sets and costumes designed by Colin Richmond, choreography by Nick Winston, lighting by Ben Cracknell, sound design by Richard Brooker and orchestration and musical direction by George Dyer.
BritishTheatre.com has a pre-sale period starting tomorrow at 10am prior to tickets going on sale to the general public on 27 February 2017.
BOOK TICKETS FOR ANNIE AT THE PICCADILLY THEATRE
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