{"id":1721,"date":"2016-11-29T04:00:45","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T04:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/?p=1721"},"modified":"2018-08-24T14:57:13","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T14:57:13","slug":"the-island-of-misfit-plays-annie-2-miss-hannigans-revenge-1989","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/the-island-of-misfit-plays-annie-2-miss-hannigans-revenge-1989\/","title":{"rendered":"The Island of Misfit Plays: Annie 2: Miss Hannigan’s Revenge (1989)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Island of Misfit Plays: Annie 2: Miss\u00a0Hannigan’s Revenge<\/em>\u00a0(1989)<\/h3>\n \"\"<\/a><\/span>

Written by Clark Levi<\/p>\n

November 28, 2016<\/p>\n<\/font>

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Welcome back to\u00a0The Island of Misfit Plays, where forgotten plays and musicals are rediscovered\u00a0and forgotten no more. Broadway flops and vanished greats, plays you might not have heard of, abandoned projects \u2014 you name it! It\u2019ll be covered. <\/span>Today, we\u2019ll be looking at one of the great bizarre flops of (wannabe) Broadway history, <\/span>Annie 2: Miss Hannigan\u2019s Revenge.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Yes. This is a thing that happened.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Six\u00a0years after the closing of the wildly successful Annie<\/em>, rehearsals began for what was sure to be the best musical sequel of all time (the bar has been set pretty low for that, but those shows are for another day). The creators, mostly composed of the same team behind the original musical, were attempting to create \u201ca real grown-up show\u201d, according to musical author Thomas Meehan. So what did they come up with?\u00a0<\/span>Well, here\u2019s one of the songs to explain most of it:<\/span><\/p>\n