Hello Grade 3 and 4 Performers!
We are SO looking forward to diving into the magic of musical theatre with you in Annie!
This page will be your main resource outside of rehearsals for the term.
Please let us know if you have questions or if we can support you in any way. We are here to help!
See you soon!
Rehearsal Schedule
Please see the full term rehearsal and performance schedule here.
All sessions on Wednesdays with the exception of our extra sessions, on Thursday February 26.
The performance is on Friday November 28 at 5:00 PM.
All participants will be dismissed after rehearsal, outside, at the Junior School doors at 5:35pm (unless otherwise noted on the schedule linked above). Note the long rehearsals to 6pm starting February 25.
Parent Resources
Please visit the following links to learn more about our creative process, how we structure our program and how we’re working with Branksome Hall to provide the best program possible for your child.
- Please see our note on how you can help to support your child in this show here.
- Please see a detailed outline of our audition and casting process here.
- Please see the Explore It! Performing Arts Programme Overview & Approach here.
Hello Performers!
We are SO excited to dive into the magic of musical theatre with you in Annie, this term!
This page will be our go-to resource for the project. You will find here:
- Vocal and backing tracks for each song are embedded into this page below along with the song lyrics to make for easy rehearsing. We ask that all performers listen to the vocal tracks at least once per week. Singing along while playing, doing chores, riding in the car or hanging out with friends is an excellent and easy way to practice and learn!
- As we learn choreography, we will add break-down and practice videos for performers to rehearse with – the more we dance, the better we’ll perform – practice really does make progress!
- It is very important that you take some time each week to practice at home. As a guide, we recommend the following:
- Grade 3s should be rehearsing for approximately 60 minutes per week between sessions.
- Grade 4s should be rehearsing for approximately 75 minutes per week between sessions.
- Next, listen to all the music and get to know the show and the characters – especially in your own songs and lyrics!
- In rehearsals, we will begin by working on the songs together – lyrics and choreo – and then build on with character work, blocking and more. If you’re looking to take on more responsibility in this production – show us by learning your part ‘inside and out’ and by showing up to each rehearsal with a positive attitude. There’s always room for performers to take on more and we love to find that special moment for each person to shine on stage!
Please let us know if you have questions or if we can support you in any way. We are here and ready to help!
See you in rehearsal!
Rehearsal Materials for the Branskome Hall Jr. School Musical Theatre Company in:
Book by Thomas Meehan
Music by Charles Strouse
Lyrics by Martin Charnin
Based on “Little Orphan Annie” by Harold Gray
Jump To:
PRELUDE: WE’D LIKE TO THANK YOU HERBERT HOOVER
OVERTURE
MAYBE
IT’S THE HARD-KNOCK LIFE
LITTLE GIRLS
LITTLE GIRLS (REPRISE)
I THINK I’M GONNA LIKE IT HERE
LET’S GO TO THE MOVIES
EASY STREET
YOU’RE NEVER FULLY DRESSED WITHOUT A SMILE
EASY STREET REPRISE
MAYBE (REPRISE)
WE GOT ANNIE
I DON’T NEED ANYTHING BUT YOU
ENCORE: TOMORROW
PRELUDE: WE’D LIKE TO THANK YOU HERBERT HOOVER
SOLO A
Today we’re living in a shanty
Today we’re scrounging for a meal
SOLO B
Today I’m stealing coal for fires
Who knew I could steal?
SOLO C
I used to winter in the tropics
TRIO 1
I spent my summers at the shore
SOLO
I used to throw away the papers
TRIO 1
We don’t anymore!
ALL
We’d like to thank you: Herbert Hoover
For really showing us the way
We’d like to thank you Herbert Hoover,
You made us what we are today
Prosperity was ’round the corner
The cozy cottage built for you
In this blue heaven
That you gave us
Yes, we’re turning blue!
DUET 1
They offered us Al Smith and Hoover
DUET 2
We paid attention and we chose
ALL
Not only did we pay attention,
We paid through the nose!
In ev’ry pot he said ‘a chicken’
But Herbert Hoover he forgot
Not only don’t we have the chicken
We ain’t got the pot!
TRIO 2
Hey Herbie,
ALL
You left behind a grateful nation
So, Herb, our hats are off to you
We’re up to here with admiration
TRIO 2
Come down and have a little stew
ALL
Come down and have some Christmas dinner
Be sure to bring the missus too
We got no turkey for our stuffing
Why don’t we stew you?!
We’d like to thank you, Herbert Hoover
TRIO 2
Thank you Herbie
ALL
For really showing us the way
You promised lots, you Bureaucrat, you
Made us what we are today
Come and get it, Herb!
OVERTURE
MAYBE
ANNIE
I know… somewhere?!
Maybe far away
Or maybe real nearby
He may be pouring her coffee
She may be straightening his tie!
ANNIE & ORPHAN & ORPHAN
Maybe in a house
All hidden by a hill
KATE & ORPHAN & ORPHAN
She’s sitting playing piana
He’s sitting paying a bill!
KIT & ORPHAN & ORPHAN
Betcha they’re young
Betcha they’re smart
DUFFY & ORPHAN & ORPHAN
Bet they collect things
TESSIE & JULY & ORPHAN
Like ashtrays, and art!
Betcha they’re good
Why shouldn’t they be?
ALL
Their one mistake
Was giving up me!
So maybe now it’s time,
And maybe when I wake
They’ll be there calling me “Baby”
Maybe.
(One by one, the ORPHANS, help each other back to bed and say goodnight.)
ANNIE
Betcha he reads
Betcha she sews
Maybe she’s made me
A closet of clothes
Maybe they’re strict
As straight as a line…
Don’t really care
As long as they’re mine!
So maybe now this prayer’s
The last one of its kind…
Won’t you please come get your baby?
Maybe…
IT’S THE HARD-KNOCK LIFE
ALL
It’s the hard-knock life for us!
It’s the hard-knock life for us!
TESSIE & ORPHAN & ORPHAN
‘Steada treated,
ANNIE & ORPHANS
We get tricked!
DUFFY & ORPHAN & ORPHAN
‘Steada kisses,
ANNIE & ORPHANS
We get kicked!
It’s the hard-knock life!
Got no folks to speak of, so,
It’s the hard-knock row we ho!
JULY & ORPHAN & ORPHAN
Cotton blankets,
ANNIE & ORPHANS
‘Steada of wool!
DUFFY & ORPHAN & ORPHAN
Empty Bellies
ANNIE & ORPHANS
‘Steada of full!
It’s the hard-knock life!
ORPHANS (2 OR 4 GROUPS)
(starting to work together pulling sheets (P) into a big pile of laundry)
– Don’t it feel like the wind is always howl’n?
– Don’t it seem like there’s never any light!
– Once a day, don’t you wanna throw the towel in?
– It’s easier than puttin’ up a fight.
– No one’s there when your dreams at night get creepy!
– No one cares if you grow…or if you shrink!
– No one dries when your eyes get wet an’ weepy!
– From the cryin’ you would think this place could sink!
ALL
Ohhhh!!!!!!!
Empty belly life!
Rotten smelly life!
Full of sorrow life!
No tomorrow life!
KIT & ORPHAN
Santa Claus we never see
ANNIE
Santa Claus, what’s that?
Who’s he?
ALL
No one cares for you a smidge
When you’re in an orphanage!
It’s a hard knock life!
MOLLY
(Making a whistling sound and imitating MISS HANNIGAN)
You’ll stay up till this dump shines like the top of the Chrysler Building!
ORPHANS (2 OR 4 GROUPS)
– Yank the whiskers from her chin
– Put a frog inside her bin
– Wipe away that stupid grin
– We love you, Miss Hannigan!
MOLLY
Get to work! … Strip them beds! … I said – get to work!
ALL
It’s the hard-knock life for us
It’s the hard-knock life for us
No one cares for you a smidge
When you’re in an orphanage
It’s the hard-knock life, it’s the hard-knock life
It’s the hard-knock life!
LITTLE GIRLS
MISS HANNIGAN
Little girls
Little girls
Everywhere I turn
I can see them
Little girls
Little girls
Night and day
I eat, sleep and breathe them
How I hate
Little shoes
Little socks
And each little bloomer
I’d have cracked
Years ago
If it weren’t for my
Sense of humour
MISS HANNIGAN & ORPHANS
Some women are dripping with diamonds
Some women are dripping with pearls
Lucky me
Lucky me
Look at what I’m dripping with
Little girls
Little cheeks
Little teeth
Everything around me is little
If I boot
Them out the door
Surely I would get an acquittal
Some day
I’ll step on their freckles
Some night
I’ll straighten their curls
There I’ll stay
Tucked away
Till the prohibition of
Little girls.
LITTLE GIRLS (REPRISE)
MISS HANNIGAN
Someday I’ll vanish completely
Away from the noise and the curls
There I’ll stay, tucked away
‘Til the prohibition of
Little girls!
I THINK I’M GONNA LIKE IT HERE
GRACE
Annie, you won’t have to do any cleaning. You’re our guest. And for the next two weeks, you’re going to have a swell time. Now…
MRS. PUGH
Cecile will pick out all your clothes
CECILE
Green is her best colour, no blue I think
ANNETTE
Your bath is drawn by Mrs. Greer
MRS. GREER
Soap…no, bubbles, I think
MRS. PUGH
Annette comes in to make your bed
ANNETTE
The silk, no the satin sheets, I think
ANNIE
I think I’m gonna like it here!
HOLLIS
When you wake ring for Drake
Drake will bring your tray
CECILE
When you’re through Mrs. Pugh
Comes to take it away
ANNETTE
No need to pick up any toys
ANNIE
That’s okay, I haven’t got any anyway
GRACE
No finger will you lift my dear
GRACE, SERVANTS
We have but one request
Please put us to the test
ANNIE
I know I’m gonna like it here!
Used to room in a tomb
Where I’d sit and freeze
Get me now, holy cow
Could someone pinch me please?
(A SERVANT pinches ANNIE – she reacts.)
…Ow!
GRACE
She didn’t mean it!
We’ve never had a little girl
SERVANTS
We’ve never had a little girl
ANNIE
I’m very glad to volunteer!
GRACE, SERVANTS
We hope you understand
Your wish is our command
GRACE, SERVANTS / ANNIE:
We know you’re gonna like it here! / I know I’m gonna like it here!
GRACE, SERVANTS
Welcome!
LET’S GO TO THE MOVIES
WARBUCKS
Cowboy heroes
Cops and robbers
Glamour and strife
Bigger than life!
(ANNIE enters with GRACE. ANNIE is now wearing a red dress to look as she does in “Little Orphan Annie”.)
GRACE & ANNIE
Sitting in the darkness
What a world to see!
Let’s go to the movies
Annie, wait and see
ALL
Betty Davis is probably lying
And Greta Garbo is probably crying
While Robert Taylor
Is locked in her dying embrace
WARBUCKS
Chico and Groucho
And Chaplin and Lloyd
Are all super
GRACE & ANNIE
Sweet Mickey Mouse
Shirley Temple
And dear Jackie Cooper
ANNIE
Let’s go to the movies
ANNIE, WARBUCKS and GRACE
Let’s go see the stars
Fred and Ginger
Spinning madly
Songs and romance
Life is a dance
Sitting in the darkness
Popcorn on your knee!
(CECILE, ANNETTE and DRAKE enter, carrying coats (P) for GRACE, ANNIE and WARBUCKS.
They help them on with their coats and wave goodbye before their exits.)
GRACE
(To CECILE and ANNETTE)
Give the maid the night off!
(CECILE & ANNETTE exit, happily.)
WARBUCKS
(To DRAKE as he’s exiting. DRAKE salutes as if to say “Yes Sir!” and exits.)
Turn the kitchen light off!
GRACE, WARBUCKS
Let’s go to the movies
Annie, you and me!
(ANNE, GRACE and WARBUCKS exit, STARLETS enter.)
STARLETS A / STARLETS B
Let’s go to the movies / See the movies
ALL
Let’s go see the stars
Red lights holler
Deep Depression
What do we care?
Movies are there!
STARLETS A / STARLETS B
Only happy endings / Boy gets girl, yes
ALL
That’s our recipe!
Welcome to a lovely
M-O-V-I-E!
STARLETS A
Let’s go to the movies
Let’s go see the stars
STARLETS B
We love to go
To RKO
Columbia
Universal
Jack Warner and
Fred Goldyn and
MGM and Paramount
ALL
Dreams of glory
Cast of thousands
Bigger than life
Bigger than life!
Only happy endings
That’s our recipe, so
Welcome
To the movies
Wait…
And…
See!
EASY STREET
ROOSTER
I remember the way
Our sainted mother
Would sit and croon us
Her lullaby
MISS HANNIGAN
She’d say, kids, there’s a place
That’s like no other
You got to get there before you die
MISS HANNIGAN & ROOSTER
You don’t get there
By playing from the rule book
LILY
Oh no – you stack the aces
Mm hmmm – You load the dice
MISS HANNIGAN & ROOSTER
Mother dear
Oh, we know you’re…
Down there listening
MISS HANNIGAN, ROOSTER, LILY
How can we follow
Your sweet
Advice
To
ALL
Easy street
Easy street
Where the rich folks play
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Move them feet
LILY
Move them ever-lovin’ feet
ALL
To easy street
When ya get there
When ya get there
When ya get there
Stay
ROOSTER & LILY
It ain’t fair
How we scrounge
For three of four bucks
While she gets
Warbucks
MISS HANNIGAN
The little brat!
It ain’t fair this here life
Is drivin’ me nuts!
While we get peanuts
She’s livin’ fat!
ROOSTER
Maybe she holds the key
That little lady
MISS HANNIGAN & ROOSTER
To gettin’ more bucks
Instead of less
Maybe we fix the game
With something shady
MISS HANNIGAN
Oh Rooster!
LILY
Where does that put us?
MISS HANNIGAN
Ah – tell ‘er!
ROOSTER
Give you one guess…
ALL
Yes!
Easy street
Easy street
Annie is the key
Yes sirree
Yes sirree
Yes sirree!
Easy street
Easy street
That’s where we’re gonna…
Be!
YOU’RE NEVER FULLY DRESSED WITHOUT A SMILE
B HEALEY
This is B Healey sayin’ Smile darn ya smile.
ELLA, BILLIE, ZELMA & JOSEPHINE
Hey hobo man
Hey Dapper Dan
You’ve both got your style
B HEALY, ELLA, BILLIE, ZELMA & JOSEPHINE & ORPHANS & SINGERS
But brother, you’re never fully dressed
Without a smile
Your clothes may be Beau Brummelly
They stand out a mile
But brother you’re never fully dressed
Without a smile
Who cares what they’re wearing on Main Street or Savile Row
It’s what you wear from ear to ear
And not from head to toe
That matters
So, Senator, so, janitor
So long for a while
Remember you’re never fully dressed
Though you may wear your best
You’re never fully dressed with-out-a
Smile
Smile
Smile
B HEALEY, ELLA, BILLIE, ZELMA & JOSEPHINE
Smile, darn ya’
Smile!
EASY STREET REPRISE
MISS HANNIGAN, ROOSTER, LILY
Easy Street!
Easy Street!
Annie is the key
Yes sirree
Yes sirree
Yes sirree
Yeah!
Easy Street
Easy Street
That’s where we’re gonna
Be!
MAYBE (REPRISE)
ANNIE
(looking at her locket, ANNIE steps away from WARBUCKS and GRACE)
Betcha my life
Is gonna be swell
Looking at them
It’s easy to tell?
And maybe I’ll forget
How nice he was to me
And how I was almost his baby
WARBUCKS
It’ll be fine
Nothing to fear
She’ll be as happy
As she was here
GRACE
(as if talking to WARBUCKS)
Things may work out
Much better than planned
It makes you smile
When fate takes a hand
WARBUCKS
And I know I’ll forget
How much she meant to me
ANNIE / WARBUCKS / GRACE
And how I was almost his baby / And how she was almost my baby / And how she was almost his baby
ALL
Maybe
WE GOT ANNIE
GRACE & DRAKE
Annie!
We got Annie
SERVANT
We got Annie?
GRACE
Yeah!
GRACE & SERVANTS
She’s like a shine on your shoes
Or hearing a blues, that’s great
Makes you relax, like a big tax rebate!
CECILE, MRS PUGH & HOLLIS
We got Annie
ANNETTE & SERVANT
We got Annie
MRS GREER, HOLLIS & CECILE
We got Annie!
SERVANTS
And Benny Goodman’s got swing
Bing is a king, by far
Mutt has got Jeff and Eleanor, FDR!
CECILE, MRS PUGH &SERVANT
We got Annie!
ANNETTE & SERVANT
We got Annie!
MRS GREER, HOLLIS & SERVANT
We got Annie!
GRACE
We got Annie
ALL
Annie!
I DON’T NEED ANYTHING BUT YOU
WARBUCKS
Annie, I’m the luckiest man in the world.
ANNIE
And I’m the luckiest kid.
ANNIE, WARBUCKS
Together at last!
Together forever!
We’re tying a knot,
They never can sever!
WARBUCKS
I don’t need sunshine now,
To turn my skies to blue
ANNIE, WARBUCKS
I don’t need anything but you!
ANNIE & HALF
Yesterday was plain awful
WARBUCKS & HALF
You can say that again
ANNIE & HALF
Yesterday was plain awful
ALL
But that’s
Not now
That’s then
HALF
I’m poor as a mouse,
HALF
I’m richer than Midas.
ALL
But nothing on earth
Could ever divide us!
And if tomorrow,
I’m an apple seller, too
I don’t need anything
Anything
Anything
I don’t need anything
But you!
ENCORE: TOMORROW
ALL
The sun’ll come out tomorrow
Bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow
There’ll be sun
Just thinkin’ about tomorrow
Clears away the cobwebs and the sorrow
Till’ there’s none
When I’m stuck in the day that’s grey and lonely
I just stick up my chin and grin and say oh
The sun’ll come out tomorrow
So you got to hang on
Till’ tomorrow
Come what may!
Tomorrow, tomorrow
I love ya, tomorrow
You’re always a day away!
The sun’ll come out tomorrow
So you got to hang on
Till’ tomorrow
Come what may!
Tomorrow, tomorrow
I love you tomorrow
You’re always a day away
Tomorrow, tomorrow
I love you tomorrow
You’re only a day away…