ANNIE PREMIERES AT NEWCASTLE THEATRE ROYAL STARRING
CRAIG REVEL HORWOOD
Annie
Newcastle Theatre Royal
Saturday 11th - Saturday 18th July 2015
A brand new production of the world’s favourite
musical Annie from Newcastle-born
producer Michael Harrison, and
starring Craig Revel Horwood as ‘Miss Hannigan’, will premiere at Newcastle
Theatre Royal Saturday 11 - 18 July 2015 before embarking on a year-long tour of the UK and Ireland.
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Craig Revel
Horwood as Miss Hannigan
with Annie and
orphans
Photo: Hugo
Glendinning
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Set in 1930s New York during The Great Depression, brave young Annie is
forced to live a life of misery and torment at Miss Hannigan’s orphanage.
Determined to find her real parents, her luck changes when she is chosen to
spend Christmas at the residence of famous billionaire, Oliver Warbucks.
Spiteful Miss Hannigan has other ideas and hatches a plan to spoil Annie’s
search…
With its award-winning book and score, this
stunning new production includes the unforgettable songs ‘It’s the Hard Knock Life’, ‘Easy Street’, ‘I Don’t Need Anything
But You’ and ‘Tomorrow’.
Craig Revel Horwood is probably best known as a
judge on BBC One’s Strictly
Come Dancing. His West End Theatre credits include: Munkustrap in Cats at the New London Theatre, Miss Saigon at the Theatre Royal, Drury
Lane and Harry in Crazy for You at
the Prince Edward Theatre which took him to the US and Germany before re-creating
the show for Susan Stroman in South Africa. Other theatre credits in his native
Australia include: West
Side Story, the Australian and New Zealand tour of The
Danny La Rue Show; La Cage Aux Folles; Me and My Girl and the hit comedy
play Ladies Night.
Annie will
be directed by Nikolai Foster. Recently named as the new artistic director at
Curve in Leicester; his most recent theatre credits include: Calamity Jane, The Witches of
Eastwick and the 20th
Anniversary production of Jonathan Harvey’s Beautiful
Thing in the West End.
Annie is
produced by Michael Harrison and David Ian.
Tickets:
Annie
appears at Newcastle Theatre Royal from Sat 11 – Sat 18 July 2015 (Evenings: 7.30pm,
Matinees: Thursday 2pm and
Saturday 2.30pm). Tickets are from £17.50 (save 50p per ticket
when you book online) and can be purchased from the Theatre Royal Box Office on
08448 11 21 21 or select your own seat and book online at www.theatreroyal.co.uk
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