Word: hannigan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Aren't kids supposed to be tougher now, with all the video games and rap lyrics? Then why is Kathy Bates playing such an unscary Miss Hannigan, and Victor Garber such a cuddly Daddy Warbucks? Kids who made it through The Lion King could surely have handled the dark side of Annie, here expurgated and more treacly than necessary. Still, it's a big production with good Broadway singers belting out catchy songs. In the end, it's hard to say anything bad about Annie (or Annie, Alicia Morton). It's just so darn cute...
After she gains a new power that steals her sanity, Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) is on the verge of going bonkers. Angel (David Boreanaz), always the good vampire, works to save her mind from total blowout. Also, Giles and Willow (Anthony Stewart Head, Alyson Hannigan) take time from their busy schedules to stop a killer...
...your crosses and garlic because Spike (James Marsters) returns to Sunnydale tonight to take revenge on his enemies, including Angel (David Boreanaz). Also, Willow (Alyson Hannigan) decides willpower cannot control her lust, so she turns to magic on a date with Xander (Nicholas Brendon) and their friends...
...only one bouncing around the stage. Some of the show's most amusing moments come when 6-year-old Victoria Pontecorvo, who plays the orphan Molly, mischievously mimics Struthers' outlandish antics. Pontecorvo's tiny size and huge smile will immediately win any audience over, and her imitation of Miss Hannigan's drunken walk and fondness for the flask are priceless. "It's the Hard-Knock Life," the orphan's second song, is an adorable synchronized number filled with metal wash-buckets and rags, and choreographer Peter Gennaro wisely capitalizes on the charm of his youngest orphan as she tap-dances...
...Story's soft femininity, and although the set design for the Warbucks mansion is a bit much--The Nike of Samothrace looms in one corner, while Picassos, Mattises, Rembrants and the Mona Lisa also make appearances--it does produce a few chuckles from older members of the audience. Rooster Hannigan, played by Laurent Giroux, and his accomplice Lily St. Regent ("like the hotel, ya' know?"), played by Karen Byers-Blackwell, made a suitably contrasting couple as they scheme their way through the remainder of the show. Giroux demonstrates a wonderfully repulsive amount of sleaziness as well as a convincing rooster...