Entertainment runs gamut, from comedy to uncover tunes
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This week’s party theatre is a churned bag that includes 4 stand-up comics, 3 exemplary recitals, a triple check of song-filled angel tales and a large Broadway low-pitched about a small lady and her dog.
After some-more than a decade off a boards, “Annie” earnings to a Landers Theatre for another turn of crowd-pleasing hijinks. Lorianne Dunn leads and choreographs a Tony Award leader for Best Musical of 1977, with song instruction by Susan Gravatt.
Starring in Springfield Little Theatre’s fourth prolongation of a strange Charles Strouse/Martin Charnin/Thomas Meehan uncover are Carolyn Billingsley as enthusiastic redhead Little Orphan Annie, Joanie Garner DePrizio as Miss Hannigan, a disproportionate institution dame who threatens her contentment and Doug Cannon as Oliver “Daddy” Warbucks, a larger-than-life billionaire who comes to her rescue.
Also featured are James Brandon Martin as Hannigan’s ne’er-do-well hermit “Rooster” and J. Mackenzie Huley as his untrustworthy girlfriend, Lily St. Regis. Longtime SLT favorite Missy Shelton is Warbucks’ partner Grace Farrell. Playing Annie’s associate orphans are Ashlyn Darling (Molly), Evy Bills (Pepper), Hannah Hunt (Duffy), Olivia Tyson (July), Katie Beth Nichols (Tessie) and Micah Williams (Kate).
Performances are during 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Feb. 9-11 and 16-18. Matinees during 2:30 p.m. are slated for Feb. 5, 11-12 and 18-19. For tickets ($25, $22, $15), call 869-1334 or go to www.springfieldlittletheatre.org.
Another uncover with lots of child interest is “Disney Live! Three Classic Fairy Tales,” personification during 3:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Friday during Juanita K. Hammons Hall for a Performing Arts.
The modernized and musicalized stories from a “House of Mouse” are “Cinderella,” “Beauty and a Beast” and “Snow White and a Seven Dwarfs.” For tickets ($35, $23, $16), call 836-7678 or go to www.missouristatetix.com.
It’s “adults only” during Hammons Hall when stand-up comedian and amicable commentator Lewis Black takes a theatre during 7 p.m. today.