Story Map in Reading 6
Third Quarter
Review of a School Play
Review of the School Play : Annie
Last November 23 we had our annual school play. This year’s play is entitled Annie from the Broadway musical “Annieâ€.
The play’s setting was in the early of the 1930’s in New York, in the New York Municipal Orphanage. The characters of this story are Annie, the main character, whose only wish is to find her parents, Miss Hannigan, the cruel orphanage supervisor who is usually drunk, Mr. Warbucks, the billionaire who always has his mind on business, his lovely assistant Ms. Grace Farrell, Ms. Hannigan’s brother, Rooster Hannigan with his female accomplice Lily St. Regis. The other characters are the orphans, namely Molly, Pepper, July, Kate, Tessie, Duffy and other orphans, Drake, the butler in the Warbucks Mansion who is very kind to Annie and Mr. Warbuck, the radio announcer Bert Healy with his singers – the Boylan Sisters, President Roosevelt, Lt. Ward, Hooverville-ites, the Mansion staff and Sandy, the stray dog.
In the early 1930’s, Annie a young girl who was left at the New York Municipal Orphanage by her parents with a half heart shaped locket with a note inside telling her that her parents will come back for her. The orphanage is run by the tyrannical Miss Hannigan who starves and makes Annie and the other orphans suffer. Tired of waiting for her parents, she decides to escape and find them but is caught by Miss Hannigan and orders the orphans to clean the orphanage. Annie escapes and meets a stray dog whom she later called Sandy to save Sandy from being caught by the dogcatcher. She later found herself in the Hooverville but Lt. Ward, the officer sent by Miss Hannigan, catches her and brings her back to the orphanage. Just then Grace Farrell, the assistant of Oliver Warbucks, comes into the orphanage telling Miss Hannigan that Mr. Warcbucks wants an orphan to stay with him for the Christmas Holiday and