Annie Warbucks
Lighting Design by:Jeff Greenberg
Annie Warbucks was produced by MOC Musicals in Montclair, NJ in May 2002. It was directed and choreographed by Gary John LaRosa with set design by Lisa Ebbert and Kris Kelleher, and sound design by Pat Alapa.
We begin the story the moment where "Annie" ends.....on Christmas morning in the Warbucks mansion.
Daddy Warbucks explains to Annie that life is full of changes, in the song "Changes."
Back in the orphanage, the rest of the kids are still hoping to be adopted.
Commissioner Doyle's staff wait for Mr. Warbucks to come sign the agreement to give up Annie unless he gets married to an "acceptable" lady.
Miss Kelly, Doyle's assistant (or so we think) sings to Mr. Warbucks about her childhood in Hell's Kitchen.
Annie and Sandy are running away because she believed she caused all Mr. Warbucks' problems. Here they are stow aways on a freight train with a couple hobos.
In her attempt to head out west, Annie has ended up on the Patterson's farm......in Tennessee.
Ella Patterson teaches her daughter Christine Grace (C.G.) and Annie what love means.
At a private party on board the Staten Island Ferry, Mr. Warbucks falls in love with Miss Kelly, who he believes is Commissioner Doyle's innocent assistant.
Still on board the ferry, Mr. Warbucks tells Annie of his plan to marry Miss Kelly.
After it's been discovered that Miss Kelly was really Commissioner Doyle's daughter, and together with Warbucks' lawyer they planned to murder him and Annie and take all his money, Mr. Warbucks ends up marrying Grace Farrell, adopts all the orphans, and they all live happily ever after. Don't you just love musicals?