``The Wonderful World of Disney'' Beckons Broadway Veterans Victor Garber, Alan Cumming, Audra Mcdonald and Kristin Chenoweth to Complete the Cast for an All-New Musical Production of ``Annie''.BURBANK, Calif.--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--June 3, 1999-- Casting is complete on an all-new adaptation of the acclaimed musical "Annie," set to air in the 1999-2000 season of "The Wonderful World of Disney" on ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. . Four-time Tony nominee Victor Garber, who also co-starred in "Titanic" and "Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella" for "The Wonderful World of Disney," has been cast in the role of Daddy Warbucks. Cumming, who won a Tony Award for his performance in "Cabaret" last year and will be seen in the upcoming Stanley Kubrick film "Eyes Wide Shut," will portray the dastardly das·tard·ly adj. Cowardly and malicious; base. das  tard·li·ness n. Miss Hannigan's shady brother Rooster roosterits crowing at dawn heralds each new day. [Western Folklore: Leach, 329] See : Dawn rooster symbol of maleness. [Folklore: Binder, 85] See : Virility . Three-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald ("Carousel," "Master Class," "Ragtime ragtime: see jazz. ragtime U.S. popular music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries distinguished by its heavily syncopated rhythm. Ragtime found its characteristic expression in formally structured piano compositions, the accented left-hand ") has been cast as Grace Farrell, Oliver Warbucks' devoted personal assistant, and Tony nominee Kristin Chenoweth ("You're A Good Man Charlie Brown") will play Lily St. Regis, Rooster's beautiful but dim new girlfriend. These actors join the previously announced Kathy Bates Bates , Katherine Lee 1859-1929. American educator and writer best known for her poem "America the Beautiful," written in 1893 and revised in 1904 and 1911. who will portray Miss Hannigan, and 11-year-old Broadway veteran Alicia Morton, who has been cast in the much sought-after title role of Annie. Rounding out the cast of orphans are Marissa Rago as Pepper, Danelle Wilson as Duffy, Nanea Miyata as July, Lalaine as Kate, Sarah Hyland as Molly and Erin Adams as Tessie. Adams, in her first professional role, was discovered in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of as a result of nationwide open call auditions. Walt Disney Television Walt Disney Television is the television production division of The Walt Disney Company with Walt Disney name. Until 1983, Disney shows were aired under the banner of the parent company, then named Walt Disney Productions. will produce the project for "The Wonderful World of Disney" along with Executive Producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron of Storyline Entertainment and Chris Montan of Chris Montan Productions -- the award-winning team behind the incredibly successful and critically-acclaimed "Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella." Mary Kay Powell of Rastar Productions will also serve as an executive producer and Brad Krevoy is a co-producer. Two-time Emmy nominee Rob Marshall, who received two Tony nominations last season as co-director and choreographer for his ground-breaking work on Broadway's "Cabaret," as well as an additional Tony nomination this year for his choreography in "Little Me" (which he also directed), will be directing and choreographing "Annie" in his television directorial debut. Marshall also choreographed "Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella." Additionally, renowned "Annie" composer Charles Strouse and lyricist lyr·i·cist n. A writer of song lyrics. Also called lyrist. Noun 1. lyricist - a person who writes the words for songs lyrist Martin Charnin are writing one new original song for Kathy Bates which will be added to the already existing classic score. Irene Mecchi, who was part of the writing teams responsible for Disney's animated hits "Hercules," "The Hunchback hunchback, abnormal outward curvature of the spine in the thoracic region. It is also known as kyphosis and humpback, and in its severe form a noticeable hump is evident on the back. of Notre Dame" and "The Lion King," and served as a co-writer of the book for the Tony Award winning Broadway adaptation of "The Lion King," is adapting the stage musical of "Annie" for this television production. "Annie" is a Storyline Entertainment and Chris Montan Production in association with Walt Disney Television for "The Wonderful World of Disney." |
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