Annie
Annie is the âturn that frown upside downâ musical seemingly custom-built for stagestruck kids. But in writer/director/songsmith Will Gluckâs updating, it breaks out of the greasepaint shuffle-step limbo it’s been consigned to and makes a bold dash for the spotlight. Gluck opens with a swerve, showing us a precocious and stagestruck young ginger Annie holding her classmates to ransom with a show-and-tell delivered with weapons-grade winsomeness. Then swivels to reveal that this isnât the titular Annie, but another one. The Annie weâre interested in is played by QuvenzhanĂ© Wallis, the cute kid from Beasts of the Southern Wild. And god is she cute. A bright little button who is the making of this singing, … Read more