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Former Annie Kids Deal with "Life After Tomorrow" on Showtime



"Life After Tomorrow," a documentary by original Annie cast member Julie Stevens — about how the musical forever changed the lives of the show's orphans — debuts on Showtime Dec. 24. Sarah Jessica Parker, Martin Charnin and Charles Strouse appear in the film.

Stevens — who closed the original Broadway run as orphan Pepper — co-directs the film with Gil Cates, Jr. The film has run a film-festival circuit (Malibu International, Newport Beach, Palm Beach International, Phoenix) and made its New York debut at the Museum of Television and Radio Oct. 21.

The film airs on Dec. 24 at 8 PM and will rerun on Showtime Dec. 25 at 3 PM. (All times ET.) Check your local listings.

"Life After Tomorrow" is billed as "a personal journey" of Stevens, who with Cates, Jr., "spoke with over 40 women who played orphans in the show during its original run on Broadway, from 1977-1983. The film explores the life-changing repercussions of child performers in Annie as many orphan cast members revisit their experience in the show, their childhood, family support structure, what happened when they left the show and tried to resume a 'normal' childhood, and what they are doing today."

In addition to Annie creators Charnin and Strouse, the film also features "fans, agents, adult cast members and a new generation of Annie orphans." Arguably the most well-known Annie alum, Parker is included in the film along with MSNBC anchor Dara Brown, recording artist Joanna Pacitti, actresses Martha Byrne and Alison Smith and songwriter Danielle Brisebois. (Original Broadway Annie Andrea McArdle and the 1982 film's star Aileen Quinn do not appear.)

Chris Kelly and Motty Reif serve as executive producers. Thomas M. Harting is the director of photography, Steven J. Escobar is editor and Megan Cavallari provides music.

A revival of Annie is currently enjoying a limited engagement through Dec. 30 at The Theater at Madison Square Garden.

For more information, visit the documentary's website at lifeaftertomorrow.com.

UPCOMING AIRINGS (All times ET/PT.)
Showtime Too
Fri. Dec. 29 7:00 PM
Showtime
Sat. Dec. 30 12:35 PM
Showtime Showcase
Sun. Dec. 31 7:45 AM
Showtime Showcase
Sun. Dec. 31 7:45 PM

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[info]vilain_garcon 30th-Dec-2006 01:29 am (UTC)
It's a hardknock life...
[info]conorchu 30th-Dec-2006 01:30 am (UTC)
Dammit now I have that song by Jay-Z stuck in my head.
Wish I had it.

All child stars have it rough one way or another.
[info]xcited4apathy 30th-Dec-2006 01:47 am (UTC)
I have much love for your icon.
[info]whiteout55x 30th-Dec-2006 01:32 am (UTC)
I heard about this, and how their life's were fucked up after.
[info]writish303 30th-Dec-2006 01:40 am (UTC)
I was Annie when I was little! lol can't say it changed my life though...
[info]xcited4apathy 30th-Dec-2006 01:46 am (UTC)
My music teacher's told me horror stories about how a lot of former Annies get vocal nodes and ruin their voices.
:-p
[info]m0shim0shi 30th-Dec-2006 01:52 am (UTC)
When I was in fifth grade and we had to watch the puberty films, the one I had to watch was hosted by the girl who played Annie in the '80s movie.
[info]ev1lkitkat 30th-Dec-2006 11:02 pm (UTC)
YES
That movie was so bizarre
[info]asouthernthing 30th-Dec-2006 01:54 am (UTC)
I cannot believe how many people I know who have not seen Annie in some incarnation. National tragedy.
[info]prairie_chica 30th-Dec-2006 01:56 am (UTC)
But I don't understand why/how they're having an Annie documentary without either McArdle or Quinn... It just seems wrong, somehow.
[info]mrmidwest 30th-Dec-2006 02:50 am (UTC)
Apparently McArdle had some issues with what the film was going to end up being like and whether the tone would be negative or not.
[info]breathesymphony 30th-Dec-2006 02:59 am (UTC)
McArdle had issues with the negativity of the show. She disagreed with the woman making it. In fact, the woman who made it lied to Sarah Jessica Parker and only got her involved by saying Andrea McArdle was doing it, despite McArdle already turning it down. Apparently. SJP is pissed to all hell now.

[info]version20 30th-Dec-2006 03:54 am (UTC)
Eh. Who cares. It was still good.
[info]annainnycalps 30th-Dec-2006 02:01 am (UTC)
LOL @ the women who are still in love with their ten year old selves.

The creepy guy, Jon Merrill or whatever (the grown man who's an Annie expert who's supposedly interviewed in this) yelled at me one time. LMAO. He's so weird.

I don't get Showtime though, so I'll have to wait :-(
[info]ykanttori 30th-Dec-2006 02:32 am (UTC)
sjp looks terrifying in this.
[info]cindel 30th-Dec-2006 02:55 am (UTC)
I don't get it. Their lives fell into drug addiction or what?

[info]breathesymphony 30th-Dec-2006 03:01 am (UTC)
If you notice, only the former cast members who grew up to a) have shitty lives or b) are still convinced they are amaaaazing because they were in Annie a million yrs ago are involved in this. Andrea McArdle had issues with the negativity of the show and refused to be interviewed for it. She disagreed with the woman making it. In fact, the woman who made it lied to Sarah Jessica Parker and only got her involved by saying Andrea McArdle was doing it, despite McArdle already turning it down. Apparently. SJP is pissed to all hell now. Both she and McArdle have very pleasant memories of Annie and have made statements about this documentary.
[info]misscrystal 30th-Dec-2006 03:20 am (UTC)
Oh man. I JUST watched the version with Tim Curry and Carol Burnette a couple days ago. My 8 year old cousin made me watch it. It was like three hours long and the girl playing Annie was ugly as hell.
[info]indie_lauper 30th-Dec-2006 09:12 am (UTC)
she was the BEST annie though.
[info]_m3_ 30th-Dec-2006 04:32 am (UTC)
Took me quite a while to figure out Annie was NOT blowing someone hidden behind the curtain and the face above is actually the O.

no pun.

Awful art. They really could have done better.
[info]yogaspazz 30th-Dec-2006 05:54 am (UTC)
Was Sarah Jessica Parker Annie or a different orphan? And are there pictures of this?
[info]mrmidwest 30th-Dec-2006 08:24 am (UTC)
Oh, there's more than just pictures. There's audio and video. :-)

http://www.annieorphans.com/CastLists/BroadwayCast/SarahJessicaParker.htm

http://www.annieorphans.com/Sounds_Videos/sounds_videodefault.htm

I believe she played both Annie and July.
[info]yogaspazz 30th-Dec-2006 06:09 pm (UTC)
Oh wow...she looks and sounds exactly the same! And makes the same faces. It seems strange, although I guess it isn't really.
[info]whitterby 30th-Dec-2006 07:10 pm (UTC)
She played another orphan first and then was Annie. I watched this last night and got all worked up. I fucking loved Annie when I was little. Oh, and SJP and the other ex-orphans were talking about how they went to Studio 54. The youngest girl was 7 at the time.
[info]caitinlv 30th-Dec-2006 06:10 am (UTC)
Andrea McArdle = Annie. Period.
[info]discostare 30th-Dec-2006 07:48 pm (UTC)
a little orphan girl once told me that the sun would come out tomorrow. her adopted father was a powerful billionaire so i suppressed the urge to laugh in her face, but now, by gum, i think she may have been on to something!
[info]vyctorya 30th-Dec-2006 08:17 pm (UTC)
Why is she walking through a giant vagina?
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