 WINTER/SPRING
Tuesday 1st - Saturday 5th February
WATERSIDE THEATRE, AYLESBURY
Tuesday 8th - Saturday 12th February
EDINBURGH PLAYHOUSE
Tuesday 15th - Saturday 20th
February
THE DOME. DONCASTER
Tuesday 22nd - Saturday 26th
February
THE MAYFLOWER, SOUTHAMPTON
Monday 28th February - Saturday 5th
March
THE PAVILION, WORTHING
Monday 7th - Saturday 12th March
KINGS LYNN CORN EXCHANGE
Tuesday 15th - Saturday 19th March
LIVERPOOL EMPIRE
Tuesday 22nd - Saturday 26th March
CAIRD HALL, DUNDEE
Tuesday 29th March - Saturday 2nd
April
DERNGATE THEATRE, NORTHAMPTON
Monday 4th - Saturday 9th April
ASSEMBLY ROOMS, DERBY
Monday 11th - Saturday 16th April
OCTAGON THEATRE, YEOVIL
Monday 18th - Saturday 23rd April
ASHCROFT THEATRE, CROYDON
Monday 25th - Saturday 30th April
THEATRE ROYAL, PLYMOUTH
Tuesday 3rd - Saturday 7th May
THE BROADWAY THEATRE, PETERBOROUGH
AUTUMN (TOURING NOW!)
1
- 3 September • Theatre Royal, Lincoln
Box Office: 01522 519999 • Website
6
- 10 September • Alhambra Theatre, Bradford
Box Office 01274 432 000 • Website
13 - 24 September • The Gaiety
Theatre, Dublin
Box Office: +353 (01) 6771717 • Website
27 September - 1 October • King's
Theatre, Glasgow
Box Office: 0844 871 7648 • Website
4 - 8 October • Poole
Lighthouse
Box Office: 0844 406 8666 • Website
11 - 15 October • Festival Theatre,
Malvern
Box Office: 01684 892277 • Website
17 - 22 October • Barbican Theatre,
York
Box Office: 0844 854 2757 • (
CANCELLED )
25 - 29 October • The Lyceum,
Sheffield
Box Office: 0114 249 6000 • Website
1 - 5 November • The
Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton
Box Office: 01902 429212 • Website
8 - 12 November • Palace Theatre,
Manchester
Box Office: 0844 847 2277 • Website
15 - 19 November • Millennium Forum,
Derry
Box Office: 028 7126 4455 • Website
22 - 26 November • The
Grand Theatre, Blackpool
Box Office: 01253 290190 • Website
29 November - 3 December • Empire
Theatre, Sunderland
Box Office: 0844 847 2499 • Website
5 - 10 December • Scunthorpe Bath
Halls
Box Office: 01724 277733 • (
CANCELLED )
The Cambridge Corn Exchange Christmas show 2011!
17 - 31 December • The Corn
Exchange, Cambridge
Box Office: 01223 357851 • Website
Chichester
Observer, by Phil Hewitt • Mayflower
Theatre, Southampton
The irresistible, irrepressible Annie
once again delights with her endearing call to
trust in the future - a wonderful feel-good
fairy-tale in which positive thinking gets every
possible reward.
We’re deep in a depression; there are
rumblings and threats in far-off lands. For 1930s
America, you might as well read 2011 Britain.
And then in breezes breath-of-fresh-air Annie,
the wildly-optimistic little orphan with the
knack of making everything turn up trumps simply
by believing that that’s what’s going
to happen.
Su Pollard is terrific as the ghastly, grotesque
Miss Hannigan, the boozy old bird in charge of
the children’s home from which Annie starts
her meteoric rise to become the world’s
happiest child and chief presidential adviser.
What's
On Stage, by Rebecca Cohen • Liverpool
Empire Theatre
Oh my goodness, oh my goodness!
Liverpool Empire has got the timeless Broadway
musical Annie, and it’s even more
spectacular than leapin’ lizards!
Full of energetic numbers, and an endless stream
of uplifting choreography, this piece can’t
help but bring a smile to your face. And yet,
underneath it all, there still maintains a
heart-wrenching storyline of the Victorian
Depression; an era in desperate need of a
sprightly red-headed orphan to fill it with
optimism.
Something that Victoria Sian Lewis portrays just
beautifully in her mature characterisation of
every little girl’s dream role. Even dressed
in rags, she has that special sparkle and rawness
that forces you to watch her, even when the stage
is full.
Equally impressive is Su Pollard as the evil
alcoholic and orphanage owner, Miss Hannigan. She
camps the part up superbly, tickling with her
flawless comic timing and ticking all the
criteria for being the villain that everybody
loves to hate.
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