Yes, the sun will come up tomorrow, but it sure doesn’t shine as brightly in the new Broadway revival of Annie. James Lapine’s staging of this clockwork-perfect musical somehow manages seriously reduce its quotient of joyfulness to the extent that audiences new to the show may well wonder what all the fuss is about. The ebullient glories of Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin’s classic score remain i…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 07:21AM on November 9, 2012