{"id":347348,"date":"2026-09-15T13:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T13:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/347348\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T13:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T13:48:08","slug":"sam-pinkleton-to-direct-50th-anniversary-annie-revival-on-broadway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/347348\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Pinkleton to direct 50th-anniversary \u2018Annie\u2019 revival on Broadway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Oh, Mary! Tony Award winner will stage the seven-time Tony Award-winning classic musical in fall 2027.<\/p>\n<p>We think we\u2019re gonna like it here! Sam Pinkleton will stage a Broadway revival of the beloved musical Annie in NYC in fall 2027, celebrating the 50th anniversary of its 1977 Broadway premiere.<\/p>\n<p>The Tony Award-winning director of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorktheatreguide.com\/show\/37743-oh-mary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oh, Mary!<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorktheatreguide.com\/show\/43905-the-rocky-horror-show-on-broadway\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Rocky Horror Show<\/a> named Annie as his favorite musical on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DKdxGMmM8b9\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><br \/>\nInstagram<\/a> in 2025, leading fans to speculate whether he\u2019d soon stage the production himself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you ask any of my closest friends what I love more than anything on the planet, everyone will have the same answer: Annie,\u201d Pinkleton said in a statement today. \u201cAnnie is everything I love about New York City: gutsy, fearless, and funny as hell. It\u2019s a perfectly constructed musical comedy that my collaborators and I will run toward with joy and abandon \u2014 with open hearts and total adoration for this legendary show that has made generations fall in love with musicals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Annie tells the story of a fearlessly optimistic orphan who, while waiting for her parents to retrieve her, finds a new family with a stern millionaire. The show features a book by Thomas Meehan and a score by Charles Strouse (music) and Martin Charnin (lyrics), including famous songs like &#8220;Tomorrow&#8221; and &#8220;It&#8217;s the Hard Knock Life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The original 1977 production won seven Tony Awards, including Best Musical, and Annie was last revived on Broadway in 2012. A touring production, starring Whoopi Goldberg as Miss Hannigan, also briefly stopped in NYC in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Casting, additional creative team members, a venue, and exact dates for Pinkleton\u2019s Annie have yet to be named.<\/p>\n<p>Check back for information on Annie tickets on New York Theatre Guide.<\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: Sam Pinkleton. (Photo by Andy Henderson)<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Oh, Mary! Tony Award winner will stage the seven-time Tony Award-winning classic musical in fall 2027. We&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-347348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}