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Plus theres a very cute dog!
That moment Harry Connick Jr. had to deliver an awkward line about being glad Broadway is back?
The sentiment is real, though.
Itisnice to see these strange, often uneven, always fascinating live musicals come back to TV.
She was joined by a lot of fellow orphans from the Disney Channel school of shout your lines!
theater kid-isms, which forAnnieis just right.
Make us feel like proud parents in the school auditorium rooting you all on!
Give us faces, poses, and a few more seconds for those jokes to hit!
The only drawback is that once you see one, you really wantallof them to be that way.
Give us the weird eye drops done with radio sound effects!
She plays the big goofy reprise scenes well and is great at all the super thirsty character beats.
She holds her own in the duet with Daddy Warbucks, too.
Her desperation isnt quite naked enough.
(Plus N.Y.C is easily three times better than the 1982 movies Lets Go to the Movies number!)
HIGH: Tituss Burgess and Megan Hilty walking in.And the whole audience going okayyes, lets DO IT.
ThisAnnies version tapped out at pleasant warmth.
More beard guy, yo.
HIGH: Nicole Scherzingers kicks as Grace.Like, literally very high.
Her performance was mostly mugging at the camera and kicking, but hey, good kicking!
LOW: The many commercials offering us contradictory information about whatever happens inSing 2.A singing competition?
And also a story about a young pig facing her fears?
And also the importance of family?
Unclear, but it seems loud.
All cute endings, but yeah, so many endings.
