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face=Arial><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" color=#333333>There’s adorability
galore, but spontaneity is absent from touring ‘Annie’
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face=Arial><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Bob Abelman</FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN
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The Morning Journal</FONT></FONT></SPAN></I><SPAN style="COLOR: "></SPAN></P>
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face=Arial><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Member, International Association of
Theatre Critics</FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: "></SPAN></P>
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face=Arial><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT color=#111111>“I've made me a
fortune.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That fortune made
ten.<SPAN
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headlined<SPAN class=apple-converted-space> a</SPAN>nd profiled, again and
again.<SPAN class=apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN
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something was missing (I never quite knew)<SPAN
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">That something was someone -- But who?”</FONT><SPAN
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color=#333333><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Late in the second act of “Annie,”
</FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">billionaire industrialist <SPAN style="COLOR: "><FONT
color=#333333>Oliver Warbucks sings about his empty life despite his net
worth.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These words also apply
to the musical itself.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The show has
made quite a fortune for its creators and producers, considering that the
</FONT></SPAN><SPAN
style="BACKGROUND-IMAGE: none; BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat; BACKGROUND-ATTACHMENT: scroll; BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0% 0%; COLOR: ">Tony
Award-winning </SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: "><FONT color=#333333>original Broadway
production </FONT></SPAN></FONT><SPAN
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">ran for 2,377 performances from 1977 to 1983 and led to
subsequent revivals and tours that have been headlining theaters
nation-wide.</FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT
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face=Arial><FONT color=#333333><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">But it’s not a
“who” that is missing from the current national tour of this musical, on stage
for a limited run at the Connor Palace in Playhouse Square.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s a “what.”</FONT><SPAN
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face=Arial><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" color=#333333>The “what” is
spontaneity.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And the cause is
time.</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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