Annie Again

My daughter took me to see another "Annie" production, along with my grandaughters, at the Grand Haven Community Center.  And this time, I didn't have to review or know the names of the players, except that Annie was one of the girls' babysitters, and her faux mother was "Annie's" actual mother, who often picked the girls up from school.  They and all the players were spectacular!

Writers often say they write to find out what they think.  

I couldn't help but notice that, though set in the time of the Depression, the play mirrored a lot of what we're going through now.  The homeless in Hooverville, for example, complained that the then President Hoover had made them what they had become today.  President Roosevelt needed to jump start the factories, and of course, Annie herself gave Roosevelt and his team (including Mrs. Perkins who advised Social Security) hope. Fraud, in the form of myriad Annie's parents coming forward for money, was rampant.

And so, just week's before the election, singing about "Tomorrow", filled the theater with hope.