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A week has past since I went to the Olympia Theatre in Dublin to see Annie. The tickets cost the guts of 35Euro each and I expected a top notch production for that sort of cash. It's still getting on my nerves, who do I complain too?
You can just imagine my horror when Annie came on stage with a bob, a Victoria Beckam Bob from the 90's! "Are they being fucking real" Annie has curls, a spiral perm would do if Au Natural was not available from the cohort of young stage school kids around Dublin. It ruined my whole experience of Annie. I just couldn't get over the fact that a casting director would allow this to happen. What was it? The kids mother wouldn't allow the spiral perm or wig and that GHD's were the must have accessory for the all new Annie. No way - there was more to this?
The production was cheap, even the Christmas Tree wasn't in tip shop shape, it was a complete mess. Then the mystery of the bob transpired into a cunning plot. Daddy Warbucks told his PA to do something with her hair (my two friends shouted out get a perm, much to the disgust of the Dublin mothers sitting around us) and out came Annie with a cheap 2 euro wig. It didn't even have the tight curls Annie is known for..
Recession has hit the long time classic Annie, cheap wigs, cheap set, expensive seats. Ba Humbug, it's a hard nut life.
Oh and Daddy Warbucks didn't have a six pack! Ragin I was, Ragin!
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As I recall the comic strip, Daddy Warbucks would never have had a six pack, whether of beer or of abdominal muscles.
I thought that Albert Finney had a fit body in the movie. I didn't even realise it was a comic strip. I wonder if I could find it on ebay, my other half would explode if I produced an Annie comic strip.
I'm off to look.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Orphan_Annie
Unfortunately the wiki article doesn't have an illustration of Daddy Warbucks, but maybe one of the links will.
thanks for the link naturegestz! I might try and find an original online - would make a great present!
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