April 23, 2024
Annie (Original 1982 Motion Picture Soundtrack) [Soundtrack]
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Audio CD (October 25, 1990) Original Release Date: June 18, 1982 Number of Discs: 1 Format: Soundtrack Label: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment ASIN: B0000025R6 Okay, so the theme song of this 1977 show, "Tomorrow," hasn't improved in 21 years or become more endurable, but nobody ever sang it better or meant it more than Andrea McCardle, the original heroine of this musical based on the Depression-era comic strip. Although Annie's an orphan, there's nothing much depressing about the rest of this Charles Strouse score with lyrics by Martin Charnin. Even "We'd Like to Thank You, Herbert Hoover," sung by the denizens of a Hooverville, is a hoot. And such uplifting anthems as "Easy Street" and "You're Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile" are still quite worthy of singing or whistling while you're walking down the avenue. These 1930s, after all, were when the new president of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt, had time to entertain a little girl on his lap at the White House. (In real life it was Shirley Temple.) And when our general fantasy life apparently allowed for a lonely billionaire merchant (Reid Shelton) to swoop down to save an orphan and learn to love. (That this show prospered in the late 1970s is the wonder.) But the real and enduring star of Annie is Dorothy Loudon, who won a Tony as the deliciously evil orphanage
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