The family musical Annie is now at Artscape and it’s just one of several fun outings to be had at the theatre this summer season.
Older Beans may know the musical from the movie version which came out in 2014, with Quvenzhané Wallis playing the heroine of the story.
But did you know Annie is based on a comic strip, Little Orphan Annie, first published nearly 100 years ago, in the New York Daily News in the 1920s?
The story is set in depression-era New York. Brave young Annie lives in Miss Hannigan’s orphanage, but she is determined to find her real parents.
Her luck changes when she is chosen to spend Christmas at the residence of famous billionaire, Oliver Warbucks. But spiteful Miss Hannigan has other ideas and hatches a plan to spoil Annie’s search.
Annie was first performed on stage in 1977 and adapted into a movie in 1982 and again in 2014.
Since its first stage performance in 1979 it has been translated into 28 languages and has played in 34 countries, including South Africa.
A new production of Annie is at the Artscape Theatre in Cape Town until January 8.
See page 3 for more great offerings at Cape Town theatres for kids this holiday season.
Tickets for Annie are available at Computicket and priced from R100-R500.