The musical Annie, based on a 1924 comic strip, became a worldwide success in the 1970s. Twenty-three years after the film adaptation of John Houston, Albert Verlinde and Roel Vente bring the musical back to the Dutch stages. With Edwin Rutten as Oliver Warbucks and Loeki Knol as Miss Hannigan. The role of Annie is sung by a different girl per region in order to comply with the rules of the Labor
… Inspectorate. Three different Annies can be heard on the CD. The Dutch translation is very satisfying, because, yes, a song like Tomorrow, how do you translate that? So with 'Tomorrow comes tomorrow, so I hope for tomorrow. Then a new day will come. ' The music is wonderful. The composer Charles Strouse has a gift for capturing the atmosphere of a time, such as in Annie the New York of the 1930s. It is amazing that despite his successes, Strouse has remained so relatively unknown. Because who now knows the composer of Those Were The Days, the song from the TV series All In The Family? (CP)more