Martin Charnin - Annie (1999 Television Film)
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Artist: Martin CharninComposer: Charles Strouse
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Cast Recording, Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 1999-11-02
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Overture
- Maybe
- Hard Knock Life (Reprise) --Marissa Rago, Danelle Wilson, Nanea Miyata, Lalaine, Erin Adams, and Sarah Hyland
- The Hard-Knock Life (Reprise)
- Tomorrow
- Little Girls
- I Think I'm Gonna Like It Here
- NYC
- NYC (Reprise)/Lullaby
- Easy Street
- You're Never Fully Dressed Without A Smile (Radio Version)
- You're Never Fully Dressed Without A Smile (Cast Version)
- Something Was Missing
- I Don't Need Anything But You
- Maybe/Tomorrow (Reprise)
- Little Girls (Reprise)
- Finale/I Don't Need Anything But You
Free Music Notes for Annie (1999 Television Film)
Free Music Review: Simply Delightful
Hit: 5 Stars
This may be heresy, but this version of ANNIE is far superior to the over-blown 1982 film. It makes only minimal changes to the plot of the original stage show, and keeps most of the original songs; the ones it leaves out ("Annie," "You Won't Be an Orphan for Long," and "Getting a New Deal for Christmas" were my least favorite songs in the stage show; however, I do wish they hadn't cut the sarcastic "We'd Like to Thank You, Herbert Hoover," but I digress...). Also, there are a handful of songs on here that are BETTER than the OBC: "I Think I'm Going to Like It Here" (Audra MacDonald is the BEST Grace Ferrel to date, and she rocks this song), "NYC" (Audra MacDonald, Victor Garber, and Andrea McArdle, the original Annie, as the Star to Be - can't go wrong!), "Easy Street" (Kristin Chenoweth and Alan Cumming simply shine as Lily and Rooster, respectively). Also wonderful are the orchestrations to this production: they are very 1930s-esque and very snappy as a result. The cast is the main reason to own this album: assembled of primarily veteran and Tony Award-winning actors (Chenoweth, Cumming, MacDonald and Garber) who out-sing the 1982 cast, for the most part (except for Carol Burnett, they truly shine. As Annie, Alicia Morton is very good, and although she doesn't have a refined-belt like McArdle did, her youthful singing voice makes here the most genuine Annie I have seen. As Ms. Hannigan, Kathy Bates is surprising: who knew she could sing? Although Dorothy Loudon will always be the best Hannigan and Carol Burnett the most remembered, Bates makes the character her own and gives her a mentally-unstable and acidic edge that is great fun to watch and hear. All in all, wonderful cast and wonderful album!
Annie (1999 Television Film) Poster
The cast of Disney's 1999 television production of Annie reads like a who's who of Tony winners: Grace is played by Audra McDonald (Ragtime, Carousel, Master Class), Rooster is Alan Cumming (Cabaret), and Lily is Kristin Chenoweth (You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown). Add Alicia Morton (Young Cosette in Broadway's Les Mis?rables) in the title role and Victor Garber (Sweeney Todd, Assassins) as Daddy Warbucks, and you have a cast that is refreshingly not driven by Hollywood box office, other than Kathy Bates as Miss Hannigan.Resum?s aside, how is the soundtrack? Well, McDonald might be a touch operatic and Garber a little young, but these are minor quibbles with a cast that is effective throughout (even Bates). Morton might not be the belter Andrea McArdle was in the original cast, but she's very good, and if anything the difference makes her sound like the little girl she is. Perhaps the best moment is McArdle--still sounding great at the ripe old age of 35--making a brief cameo as the star-to-be in "N.Y.C." Longtime fans of the show will notice that, in order to fit a two-hour prime-time window, the production had to leave out most of the historical context of the FDR administration ("A New Deal for Christmas," "We'd Like to Thank You, Herbert Hoover"), as well as some other familiar numbers ("You Won't Be an Orphan for Long," "Annie"). This soundtrack is thus best considered a souvenir of the television production or a complement to, rather than a replacement for, the original cast recording. --David Horiuchi
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