Fuller Middle School Staging Annie Jr.

Leapin’ Lizards!

The irrepressible comic strip heroine takes center stage at Fuller Middle School in a couple of weeks.

Annie is one of the world’s best-loved musicals.

Based on the popular comic strip by Harold Gray, Annie, the winner of seven TONY Awards including Best Musical has been adapted for young performers in Annie JR, which Fuller Middle School students will stage this month, under the direction of Teri Shea.

This production features 50 Fuller students in the cast, 21 students from Potter Road, Stapleton, Hemenway, Dunning, and McCarthy elementary schools who play the orphans, 16 students in the orchestra, and 15 students on crew.

There will be a trio of performances - Friday, Nov. 20 at 7 p.m. and Saturday, Nov. 21 at 3 and 7 p.m.

Tickets are on sale now online at www.showtix4u.com now. If available, tickets will be sold at the door.

Attendees are asked to help the Framingham Public Schools theatre department kick off the holiday season, and help Framingham families in need, by bringing one canned good per audience member.

The beloved book and score by TONY Award winners Thomas Meehan, Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin features some of the greatest musical theatre hits ever written including Tomorrow.

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. She is determined to find her parents who abandoned her years ago on the doorstep of a New York City Orphanage run by the cruel, embittered Miss Hannigan.

With the help of the other girls in the Orphanage, Annie escapes to the wondrous world of NYC. In adventure after fun-filled adventure, Annie foils Miss Hannigan’s evil machinations and even befriends President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. She finds a new home and family in billionaire Oliver Warbucks, his personal secretary Grace Farrell, and a lovable mutt named Sandy.

The show is directed and choreographed by Teri Shea. It is produced by Chris Brindley, under the music direction by Dan Moore. Costume Design by Amy Swallow and the orchestra is conducted by Andy Jasinski.