It's showtime! This week has seen the transformation of the Sports Hall into 1930s New York during the Great Depression for our whole school production of Annie, which has involved students from Year 5 to Year 13.
In the show, feisty orphan Annie is forced to live a life of hungry drudgery, dreaming of being reunited with the parents who dropped her off at Miss Hannigan's orphanage as a baby with a promise to come back to reclaim her one day. Her luck changes when she is chosen to spend Christmas with famous billionaire bachelor, Oliver Warbucks, and he seeks to make her wishes come true.
On Monday 16th October, the cast put on a full performance to an audience of 500 children from local Junior Schools, and then from Tuesday 17th to Thursday 19th the show played to a full house each night, with spectacular acting and dancing, and plenty of well-known musical numbers like It’s The Hard-Knock Life, Easy Street and Tomorrow.
Congratulations to director Mrs Rees, musical director Mrs Phillips and choreographer Mrs Manning, the show was a triumph as always. Many thanks also to everyone else involved in the show; a large scale production like this is very much a team effort, both on and off the stage, and we would never pull it off without such sterling support from staff, students, parents and friends.
The audiences left the auditorium beaming each night, and if the show's slogan, 'You're never fully dressed without a smile' is accurate, these were the best dressed theatre-goers in town.
More photos from the production can be viewed on our Facebook page.
