Annie: the Musical

To think that I've lived here all of my life
And never seen these things

wait did they make a musical with annie from norway songs or is this about some old shit

cause if A I buy tix if B fuc you

Ugh, suggest banned.

haha good evening TOMBOT!

the world was my oyster
but where was the pearl?

Empty belly life!
Rotten smelly life!
Full of sorrow life!
No tomorrow life!

when does the YELLE musical come out

prediction: tombot will stay up until that joke shines like the top of the chrysler building

i'd have quit years ago if it weren't for my sense of humor.

gimme three years so I can ask for the MILLIONAIRES musical version
that'll probably have vampires in it so extra camp not-a-fag-just-awesome points for everybody

Hootie: the Musical

gabbneb is such a werewolf

send the flood, send the flu!
anything that you can do
TOOOO little girlzzzzzzzz!

...howl?

good fucking question

father tom,
oh we know you're
down there listening
how can we follow
your sweet advice
to
excelsior street?

haha

Need you?
Don't give a crap for you.
You're the most presumin' dog
That a human could know.

We're getting a New Deal for Christmas!!

we'd like to thank you el tomboto!

I have two different Annie novelizations.

I so want to watch this: Life After Tomorrow

i'd like to cat a production of annie: the musical using only ilxors

haha CAST

I rewatched this recently because:
1. Liz Lemon getting caught by Jack Donaghy singing "Maybe"
2. Someone told me they rewatched it and there was "big sexual tension between Daddy Warbucks and Annie."

#2 is not true, my friends.

The weird thing about this movie is it's just kind of assumed you'll love Annie as much as everyone else apparently does. I did not immediately fall under her charms and would like to know why everyone was so enamored of her. I mean, she was a cutes and non-sassy little girl, but I didn't think that was an especially rare subset of little girl?

i love "maybe" and it is a great warm-up song

i sing it in the car all the time

It is the best song in the musical, imo.

It makes me cry a little ;_;

I always wanted a spin-off musical about the adventures of Pepper.

yes pepper is the best

I love the angry-man antics of Daddy Warbucks. There is a disturbingly large amount of panty-shots in this musical, though. Especially since half of them are of like 9 year old girls. o.0

Sometimes Albert FInney's talking voice sounded like Cotton

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100509102925/kingofthehill/images/7/71/Cotton.jpg

First time I went to the movies after seeing "Annie" I was most angry that it was NOTHING LIKE in Annie! (NB I wouldve been about 5)

hahaha wow

Annie is 100% why I watch the Macys Thanksgiving Parade: i just want to see the Rockettes. That let's go to the movies Annie scene is one of my favorites. If I saw the Rockettes at Radio City irl I would probably bawl my eyes out

Also there were SO many things I didnt get in the movie as a kid that dawned on me later: like Miss Hannigan's bathtub gin. I never got why she was drinking her bathwater, lol

i got to meet a rockette at radio city music hall and go into their rehearsal area and costume shop and measure myself on their height chart when i was 15

it was not wasted on me, i was dying and my life's ambition was to become 5'8"

Carol Burnett rules this movie. And Tim Curry. And Ann Reinking. Ok fuck it, I love this movie.

Abbott's right, though -- the "spunky little redhead" is the least of the movie's pleasures.

I like that when I saw it again recently (in the past couple years, I guess) I got all the jokes about Warbucks being a gilded-age capitalist in the middle of a depression. Like when a communist sneaks on to the balcony with one one of those round black bombs with a fuse that only exist in comic books.

yeah, its not that i found that stuff impenetrable when i watched it as a child, its more like those parts didnt exist at all

like everything in between musical numbers was like the grey screen that the terminator sees

Roxy omg @ meeting Rockettes! How did that even happen? :D

Bernadette Peters is so freakin great too. "Like the hotel"

i was in a dance troupe that got to go to nyc to do all this weird, cool stuff you don't normally get to do in nyc. it was like the ultimate fantasy unreal nyc trip for a teenage girl.

BERNADETTE IS THE BEST

Roxy you lived my dream :)

Did u guys see the documentary about all the girls who played Annie in the broadway tour?

i haven't even heard of it. i'd love to see it

It's called "Life After Tomorrow"...they were airing it on A&E a while ago. Really worth finding, I enjoyed it.

Meanwhile, I think we need a song break

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry79LzkkDb4&feature=youtube_gdata_player

i loved to hear jay z talking about annie on fresh air

Yeah that was great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDkEXszYtdo

Life After Tomorrow is on Hulu.

yes!

i loved to hear jay z talking about annie on fresh air

I liked him describing the "izzo/izzay" type of suffixes as "a kind of pig latin." I'd never thought that, but... yeah, that's about right.

i liked that too!

Funny, I just showed this to my kids for the first time. Am I right that there's no adequate transfer of this on DVD? Only cropped or pan and scan?

ARe little kids snobs about widescreen these days?

I know I was! Ever since I saw Raiders of the Lost Ark and it was the letterbox edition...

1. Carol Burnett should've been nominated for and maybe won an Oscar for her pratfalls in "Easy Street" alone.
2. It was because of this movie that I used to, as a 6 year old, use the term "Bolshevik" as an insult.

And you still do, you godless Trotskyite.

hi ned!!

Hi there!

This was always on HBO or something when we first got cable but I'm still not sure if I ever actually saw it all the way through in one sitting, it was like I caught bits of it here and there each time. Carol Burnett ruled.

Downloaded a rip of the soundtrack to add "Maybe" to my karaoke playlist. The banter at the beginning of "Sign" is pretty hilarious without the visuals.

Burnett: "My GOD, is that thing real?!"

Love how Burnett talks to the radio at the beginning of 'Little Girls'

I think she's part of the reason I've always been mildly nervous around drunk ppl, lol

ok ladies, did anyone see the movie that featured the Broadway cast of Annie talking about getting their periods?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0212977/

O_O

that's.... a hell of a cast list

Menstruating Girl
Menstruating Girl
Menstruating Girl

i remember when I was a kid i thought misses hannigan was pretty cool but now that i am an adult I think she's REALLY cool

your clothes MAY BE
beau BRUMMELY

UH youre never fully dressed

Don't encourage her, Punjab!

WHYYYY DO I SMELL WET DOG??

I hate the belters, they remind me of every girl between the ages of ten and thirteen thinking they could be a Broadway star. The movie isn't bad though, the actress playing Annie is really low key.

Except when she sings or acts.

lol yeah, "low key" isn't what comes to mind when I think of lil Aileen

What are you talking about, we loved it - stage moms across America threw a fit when that girl was cast in the movie because she didn't sing and act like their little diva in training!

You may be onto something there...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DtkbLeRyK8

(Maybe) is the best song in the musical, imo.

I think that even without Jay-Z, I'd still vote for "Hard Knock Life" as the best song.

The girls doing their Mrs. Hannigan impressions works, as they say, on so many levels. And the acrobatics in this number!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR80EEsWauU

BTW, I'd never noticed it, but Viceroy is right about there being a whole lot of panty shots in this movie. At one point in "Easy Street," Bernadette Peters hikes up her skirt ALL the way. ALL.

when i was little, "easy street" and "never fully dressed" were my favorites; the latter still is, but it's tied with "maybe" now

"she's sittin playin pee-aaaa-NNAH"

"Easy Street" would be so fun to perform.

^ have done this and it is a blast!

awesome!

Pics plz!

YES

I hate the belters, they remind me of every girl between the ages of ten and thirteen thinking they could be a Broadway star.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/193073/saturday-night-live-stars-of-tomorrow

I can't even tell you how much I love this movie. It was the first movie I ever saw in the theater. I was four but I remember how awesome the whole experience was very very clearly. I know most of the songs by heart and many are amazing.

i love "maybe" and it is a great warm-up song

i sing it in the car all the time

― tim lincecum in a giants snuggie (roxymuzak), Monday, December 6, 2010 7:51 PM (2 days ago) Bookmarki love "maybe" and it is a great warm-up song

<3 <3 <3

I thought pepper was the coolest btw.

dudes, it was in high school. Only a grainy VHS copy exists...somewhere.

I can't even tell you how much I love this movie. It was the first movie I ever saw in the theater.

I never saw Annie in a theater, but I vividly remember seeing both Star Wars and Grease in the theater, and Grease sticks in my mind WAY more than Star Wars ever did.

Me, I like the singing and the dancing.

we should stage an all-ilx production. We could even have a different Annie for each number so everyone gets a chance at a big song.

my son had a playdate at a friend's house and has been singing Easy Street all week; I forgot that the dad told me a few weeks ago that it was suddenly a big hit over there with his kids.

First time I went to the movies after seeing "Annie" I was most angry that it was NOTHING LIKE in Annie! (NB I wouldve been about 5)

― Not the real Village People, Monday, December 6, 2010 7:09 PM

This is so amazing!

My friend's kid went to Disneyworld at about the same age and was PISSED that she wasn't actually inside a cartoon.

hahaha, i actually misresd NTRVP's post as saying that the next time he/she went to the movie theater after seeing annie there, he/she was disappointed that the MOVIE was nothing like annie

like he/she just thought that's what movies were like

oh haha! No I wanted to play on that slide that the dancing ladies go down :(

EYE OH DEE
EEE ENN TEE

EYE-OH-DENT

(have that that rolling around my head all afternoon)

Kinda surprised that there hasn't been any mention of this yet (that I've seen): yet another film version of Annie, this time produced by Will Smith and starring Willow Smith (naturally), with music by Jay-Z.

Discuss!

As a grown woman I can now say that Albert Finney is kinda hot as a bald rich dude

+1

:D

i love him in the Iodent Hour scene

"DROP PAGE. WARBUCKS CONTINUES"

DID IIIIII JUST DO A COMMERCIAL?

A magnificently giant performance.

I gotta say, this looks like it could be really enjoyable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrxc8rS2W2E

Did the Will and Willow Smith project mentioned upthread turn into this much more promising version?

Maybe you saw a different trailer to me then. I thought it looked kinda horrible. The girl is cute but Diaz and Foxx, ugh no

At least it no longer has Will Smith in it

(it is the same project though, Emma Thompson has 3rd writing credit)

Foxx wears rug for most of it, reportedly

booooo

wig gag spoiled in one of the trailers actually

Maybe you saw a different trailer to me then. I thought it looked kinda horrible. The girl is cute but Diaz and Foxx, ugh no

Yeah, pretty sure I saw the same version you did. The girl looked really good, but the two big name leads looked stiff and terrrrrrrible.

well two years ago on Christmas I watched Les Miserables in the theater and Jaime Foxx and Cameron Diaz couldn't be more stiff and terrible than Russel Crowe and Hugh Jackman were

see I didn't hate Les Mis

you say potato, etc :)

LET'S CALL THE WHOLE THING OFF

tbh though I will mostly be in it for Quevezhané Wallis (who apparently has a role in the upcoming Space Jam 2, which I didn't know was a thing)

wtf @ space jam 2

i thought space jam 2 got canned when Lebron decided he didn't want to do it

idk it's still in IMDB which might mean nothing

This looks worse than Les Mis. Not something I say lightly, either.

kudos

http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/annie

lalalala I can't hear you.

My only regret is that I couldn't be meaner.

who takes the place of FDR?

Twitter.

Honestly, of all the movies for people to be coming out of the "it's not THAT bad" woodwork.

The trailer for this was completely charmless (even Quvenzhané Wallis looked totally unengaged). Yet your review makes it sound more charmless than I could've even imagined.

And I'm forced to ask about yet another remake: why not just make it its own thing if you're going to alter the source material to such an extent that you're likely to turn off anyone who might've been enticed by another filmed iteration of that particular story/property?

Am guessing this version would never have happened without the Jay-Z "Hard Knock Life" breathing alleged life into the property.

It was nepotism on behalf of Willow Smith that kickstarted the whole thing. Then she got too old.

lol are you serious

Yeah, wasn't it originally supposed to be Will and Willow? An After Earth present for his little girl?

what loving dad wouldn't arrange high-profile failure for both his kids?

Can't wait for the Pinkett-Smith Sophie's Choice.

what loving dad wouldn't arrange high-profile failure for both his kids?

a total idiot?

oh lol didn't see the "wouldn't" there haha

that picture on the review just makes me continue weeping for Rose Byrne's career

xpost But that's probably Will Smith's honest take. Given the money and the pull, only a total idiot would refrain from giving his beloved children their own vanity projects.

his kids are already not gonna have to ever work a day in their lives, might as well get them career-focused early in life like he was (is my guess)

his kids are already not gonna have to ever work a day in their lives

Or go to school.

or experience linear time

has Willow Smith been in any movies? I just skimmed that interview a few weeks ago where she and her brother sounded like herbal teabags in corporeal form.

xp they'll probably end up getting ivy league degrees anyway lbr

sister obliged to take kid to this yesterday as the coal in her stocking