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‘Annie’ Co-Creator Disses Recent Broadway Revival (As His Colleagues Run the Other Way)

THEATRE Posted: February 26, 2014 12:51 am

Martin Charnin, lyricist and director of the original production (and of an upcoming non-Equity tour): “The entire [original] creative team (Tom, Charles, and I) simply had to restore the charm and the magic of the musical, that has endured for lo, these many years, and that seemed to veer off-course in the recent Broadway production.” Composer Charles Strouse and book writer Thomas Meehan very promptly disavowed Charnin’s statement.

THEATRE Published: 02.24.14

Read the story in Playbill.com Published: 02.24.14

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