ANNIE Andrea McArdle as Miss Hannigan 

McArdle definitely has the voice! She truly is one of Broadway's most underutilized talents. She does lack the comedy that Ms.Hannigan usually possesses, but seeing her played a different way is refreshing.

You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

Stop- she played annie, then star-to-be, then mrs. hannigan? Iconic.

You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become a villain

Well , from Annie to Miss Hannigan . Looks like Andrea McArdle has come full circle!👍

It is weird to see Annie as Miss Hannigan,but she was really good in both characters

I was 17 that year and I chose to see Next to Normal in LA around the holiday season. But now that I’m older, I regret missing out on this. Seeing the OG Annie as Miss Hannigan is like when Carol Burnett went from Winifred to the Queen in Once Upon A Mattress

I guess you could say Andrea's come full circle by first playing Annie, then the Star-to-Be in the 1999 TV movie, and now Miss Hannigan in this production.

God. Andrea McArdle is so good. Unparalleled.

Those who are critiquing her acting and/or characterization as being incorrect...remember she saw Dorothy Loudon (the original) as Miss Hannigan...I think she is fabulous. I think too many people expect everyone to be Carol Burnett...the stage version is written different than the movie. Hannigan is written to be funnier in the film. They should have McArdle play Hannigan in the next Broadway revival.

I ran into her at the annual Flea Market in NYC after she had done this - her take was priceless…”I never realized how much I hated working with kids and dogs…” Can’t wait for the live broadcast tonight! Thanks for posting this Spiderwoman!

Wow! Surprisingly good and entertaining! SO many women overact when they play this role and miss the mark on the vocals...this was great!

I remember seeing Andrea McArdle as Annie on Broadway in the 70s...good to see her performing this role👍🏿😊

The OG Annie

She's brilliant in this...as in everything.

As much as I enjoy hammy/comedic/over-the-top Miss Hannigan I still really enjoy what Andrea did here. The lyrics are still funny here of course the irritation she's feeling here is well conveyed (and I do think she's funny too). Too bad we can't see more of Easy Street (since people act like this is the whole performance) but I still enjoyed this Little Girls.

I think Andrea McArdle is an extraordinary talent, but that this role is not a good fit on her, even though she sings and acts the hell out of it. And there's an obvious, fun, "rite-of-passage" nostalgia that comes into play. I do love listening to her; she has a voice that's somehow both iconic and yet inimitable. (I've never heard a single impression done of her, yet alone a "good" one. She's not just a belter, she has such a beautiful, instantly recognizable tone & vibrato that literally no one else has.) I just think Hannigan is more of a grotesque/clown of a character, and McArdle is (was) simply too lovely to pull it off. And Dorothy Loudon's shoes are way big to begin with. But OMG I love her, and am so happy to see this!

The Woman has a Voice 🙂🙂

wonderful

I saw this opening night!!!

Love it!

Mrs hannigan is really a good character even more when she before she sings the song of little girls

Missed McArdle, saw Shelly Bruce as Annie for my very first Broadway show. Alice Ghostly played Hannigan and Sarah Jessica Parker was still an orphan. I’m old. I wonder if watching Loudon in the wings all those years ago informed McArdle’s performance

I can’t take her seriously…she’s too good 😂

Who better to know every part than Andrea and what a chance to improve on a part you watched for so many performances and figured i wonder how it would look this way?

Wow! Andrea was great!

This I like 👍

ANDREA ❤

fitting! any more annie 20th?!?! please!!!!

When did this happen and where?

I'd rather watch her as Miss Hannigan than many I've seen - at least she's not chewing the scenery up trying desperately to be funny. Definitely never sung better.

She's great! The most feminine Hannigan I've ever seen. What a voice. I don't know about that wig, though.

Hi, I just found your fragment of 'CHESS London '88' with Anthony Head. Is there any way I could find the entire performance?

Annie being harassed by the orphans😂

Who would love to see how Dorothy loudon would have played Annie as a 13 year old?

What does bloomer mean?

Why with her great voice has she not really made it?

Wow. She wasn’t bad at all. Love all the theater critics here.

Annie something was missing xx

I adore her, but I honestly don't feel like this role was right for her, her voice sounds too youthful and pretty for Hannigan.

Someone should tell Andrea that she's in a cartoon, not Hedda Gabbler! There's nothing funny about her meanness. Way too serious.

funny she ain't

The Industry can be kind of perverted in its eagerness to dispose of child stars, writing them off as somehow not having earned their club card when they’re adults.

This might sound incredibly mean, so let me say one thing: I think Andrea McCardle is a stunningly talented singer. Her voice is phenomenally gorgeous and I love it. One of the best belters we have, for sure. Okay? Okay. But her talent is kind of a problem - she's so good that she almost seems like a robot. Her physical performance never matches the exalted emotional heights that her singing evokes. So in a weird way, she always seems kind of lifeless - she doesn't seem to really interpret her roles, she just sings the notes. Impeccably and gorgeously - but without any real personality. I never really believe that she feels anything, or that she's embodying a character other than herself. Maybe I'm full of shit and being unreasonable - she did work with the original Miss Hannigan after all ! And it is incredible that her voice sounds pretty much the same here as it did in the seventies - how is that possible? But I think I prioritise enthusiasm over technical proficiency. I saw a video of Jane Lynch performing Little Girls, and she is not really a singer, but she really camped it up and was hammy and silly and clearly having the time of her life. She was in the moment. I wish McArdle's performance had been a little bit more like that.I love listening to Andrea McArdle's singing - her version of Wherever He Aint is one of my favourite songs of all time - but watching her perform always leaves me a bit - underwhelmed.

I see someone PCed the nuthouse line out of the song, whatever. So I thought Andrea would get more comic mileage from having worked with Dorothy Loudon every night - but she doesn't seem to know how to angle a word for laughs.

She has an incredible voice and I think she works very well as a cabaret singer. If anything she should do a touring cabaret of her life story. But she just doesn’t have the acting chops attached to it. She’s portraying Miss Hannagan in a way that reads Annie as a viewer.

Ms. Hannigan= Carol Burnett

I'm sure she wouldn't have dropped out of Annie live if she was playing Miss Hannigan.

God she was awful in this

Great voice but doesn't understand this character at all. Miscast 4 sure