Annie will return to Broadway in fall 2027 to mark the musical’s fiftieth anniversary.
Sam Pinkleton, the Tony-winning director of O Mary! and of The Rocky Horror Presentwill direct the musical, produced by Michael Alden and Hal Luftig, Cathy Dantchik and Kevin Connor for Halcyon Theatricals. Casting has not but been introduced.
“In the event you ask any of my closest buddies what I like greater than something on the planet, everybody may have the identical reply: Annie“Pinkleton mentioned.”Annie It is every little thing I like about New York: brave, intrepid and humorous as hell. It’s a superbly constructed musical that my collaborators and I run to with pleasure and abandon, with open hearts and whole adoration for this legendary present that made generations fall in love with musicals.
Pinkleton can be set to direct Encores’ star-studded manufacturing You are a good man, Charlie Brownwith Ayo Edebiri, Danielle Brooks and David Hyde Pierce, in February 2027.
The musical, that includes music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin and a e-book by Thomas Meehan, premiered on the Goodspeed Opera Home in 1976 earlier than a pre-Broadway engagement on the John F. Kennedy Middle for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC. It debuted on Broadway on April 21, 1977 and went on to win seven Tony Awards, together with Greatest Musical, Greatest Authentic Rating, Greatest E book of a Musical, Greatest Actress in a Musical (Dorothy Loudon), Greatest Choreography, Greatest Scenic Design, and Greatest Costume Design.
The present has been revived on Broadway twice beforehand, in 1997 (the place Sutton Foster performed A Star To Be) and in 2012 for a two-year run that noticed Jane Lynch be part of the forged as Miss Hannigan and Sadie Sink made their Broadway debuts because the alternate Annie and the orphan Duffy.