‘Annie’ Auditions Coming Up

DAYTON - Touchet Valley Arts Council Productions, the team that has produced many musicals for Dayton's Liberty Theater stage, is staging the family favorite "Annie" this fall. Elizabeth Arabelos Jagelski will direct the hit musical, based on Harold Gray's comic strip "Little Orphan Annie" that debuted in the New York Daily News in 1924.

An informational meeting will be held at the theater on May 22 at 6:15 p.m. to cover the audition process and schedule. Anyone interested in performing onstage or helping out behind the scenes is welcome to attend.

"Annie," with its standout musical numbers "Tomorrow" and "It's the Hard Knock Life," premiered in 1976 at the Goodspeed Opera Houses in East Haddam, Conn. It opened at the Alvin Theatre on Broadway in 1977, where it won the Tony Award for Best Musical and ran for nearly six years.

Touchet Valley Arts Council is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing cultural enrichment opportunities for residents of Dayton and its neighboring communities.

In 2001, following an extensive renovation, it opened the historic Liberty Theater. For more information, contact the Liberty Theater at (509) 382-1380 or by email at info@libertytheater.org.