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It makes him warmer, but it also feeds into the characterвЂ™s ego in a way that feels right for such a pompous guy. A Warbucks whoвЂ™s almost hammy during the songs, as Connick plays him, is a fun shift for how the character is often portrayed.

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HIGH: ItвЂ™s fun to have a Daddy Warbucks who can sing! Of course most stage productions cast excellent vocal performers for Warbucks, but in many movie versions or the high-profile filmed performances, Warbucks tends to go to actors who have the gravitas and gruffness over the voice. LOW: The creases that formed at the top of Harry Connick Jr.вЂ™s head due to his bald cap: Why did he look like Megamind from the movie Megamind?

Her desperation isnвЂ™t quite naked enough. Because Henson plays her as funny instead of a ridiculous and unpredictable alcoholic who is sadly humorous, the motivation for the showвЂ™s antagonist feels a little toothless. (No small feat when heвЂ™s played by Harry Connick Jr.) But HensonвЂ™s Hannigan was all big silly thirst and not enough sadness and threat. She holds her own in the duet with Daddy Warbucks, too. She plays the big goofy reprise scenes well and is great at all the super thirsty character beats. In some sequences, HensonвЂ™s Miss Hannigan is perfect.

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Give us the weird eye drops done with radio sound effects! Give us NBC trying to figure out how to get people to sign up for Peacock, but with pre-WWII references! HIGH: The вЂ™30s radio WendyвЂ™s ad? The commercials in live musicals can often be miserable, but it was kind of fun to see a WendyвЂ™s ad in the style of вЂњNever Fully Dressed.вЂќ The only drawback is that once you see one, you really want all of them to be that way. Sandy was played by a dog named Macy who is arguably the most experienced Annie performer in the whole production: After being rescued from a shelter in Oklahoma, Macy has played Sandy more than any other dog in the showвЂ™s history. Give us faces, poses, and a few more seconds for those jokes to hit! HensonвЂ™s вЂњLittle GirlsвЂќ was a particular victim to this, speeding along in a way that suffocated the comedy. Without the space for the big moments to land things started to feel relentless, and didnвЂ™t give the audience the chance to engage with the performances as much as they could have.

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Perhaps in keeping with the school play energy, there was barely a break between each scene and song, as if director Lear DeBessonet was anxious to make sure the TV audience didnвЂ™t get bored. HIGH: Kid tumblers! Flipping all over the stage, bouncing on the mattresses and hard knockВ life-ing it all over the place, but miraculously not running into each other and hard-knocking their brains out. Make us feel like proud parents in the school auditorium rooting you all on!

She was joined by a lot of fellow orphans from the Disney Channel school of вЂњshout your lines!вЂќ theater kid-isms, which for Annie is just right. As Annie, Celina Smith brought a clear voice and all the sunny enthusiasm necessary to carry the show. HIGH: The luminous Celina Smith and her cohort of theater kid actors. It is nice to see these strange, often uneven, always fascinating live musicals come back to TV. had to deliver an awkward line about being glad Broadway is back? It was corny! The sentiment is real, though. But the most important elements were there: Celina Smith was fantastic in the lead role, supported by a stellar ensemble of AnnieвЂ™s orphan friends dancing their hearts out. wore as Daddy Warbucks had to confront the fact that the bald cap would haunt his every scene. Anyone who maybe hoped they could gradually adjust to the uncanny bald cap Harry Connick Jr. The NBC version was not perfect it suffered from rushed pacing early on and strange stilted momentum toward the end. Especially in its telling as the stage musical rather than the familiar 1982 movie version, Annie has plenty of ideas resonant to 2021: wish-fulfillment as an answer to yawning inequality political speeches about investing in infrastructure to heal the nation con artists seizing on personal tragedy for financial gain. As a return to live televised musicals after a long pandemic pause, NBCвЂ™s Annie Live! really hit the thematic nail on the head.

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