Based on the popular comic strip and adapted from the Tony Award-winning Best Musical, with a beloved book and score by Tony Award-winners, Thomas Meehan, Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin, Annie KIDS features everyone’s favorite little redhead in her very first adventure. October 20 at 9am and October 21 at 10am and 1pm at the St. Boniface Auditorium. Tickets are $12 for general admission. For more information: call (479) 434-2020 or visit us online at csafortsmith.org/stars-on-stage.
With equal measures of pluck and positivity, little orphan Annie charms everyone’s hearts despite a next-to-nothing start in 1930s New York City. Annie is determined to find the parents who abandoned her years ago on the doorstep of an orphanage run by the cruel Miss Hannigan. Annie eventually foils Miss Hannigan’s evil machinations, finding a new home and family in billionaire, Oliver Warbucks, his personal secretary, Grace Farrell, and a lovable mutt named Sandy.
Quote from Cody Walls, Director: It has been such a privilege for me to work with these young actors and hopefully inspire the same love of theatre and performance that I began cultivating at a young age. It has been a delight to watch them grow as actors, find confidence, face their fears, and find their voices on the stage. Whether this is your first time seeing Annie or your 100th time, I hope you are inspired by what you see.
Quote From Dr. Rosilee Russell, Executive Director: Annie is a timeless classic that everyone will enjoy. We have a great team of Directors to work with the kids and pleased to present a wonderful cast of children in grades K-2 for this show! They are a talented group who will win your hearts with their production. I’m so proud of all of them!
Students by City, State:
Fort Smith: Madeline Bechtel, Ruby Duplantis, Amelia LaFreniere, Colette Magee, Theodore Martinez, Isabella Martinez, Ellie Payne, Hattie Rogers, Buggy Siddons, Eleanor Vernon, Kensi Welch, John Wilson
Van Buren: Aria Howell, Silas Howell,
Lavaca: Layna Potter
Alma: Rhett Gillespie, Elizabeth Smith
Stigler, OK: Oliver Caraway
Keota, OK: Christian Jaspersen
Poteau, OK: Macklin Sullivan
