This should be interesting. I liked the film, and it's message. You rarely hear "daughters, your mother is sometimes right" from a story like this. Hell, the fact both parents are alive makes it an incredibly daring and subversive movie 

Hell, when I showed my sister Constantine, she said she enjoyed the romance between the male and female leads We see what we want to see.

I'm about a decade older than Eddie (bridging the gap between him and Trey), so my only exposure to the show was knowing the funding was partly local (WNED Buffalo). While I was into Sesame Street as a toddler and both my parents were teachers, I still remember the moment when I actually UNDERSTOOD reading. They had been having us go through "Sam I Am" books in Kindergarden. I was doing well, I assume, but my mind didn't connect it to anything. Then, one night, I got up out of bed, turned on the light, and got a Winnie The Pooh picture book off my bookshelf. I opened it... and I understood the words! They had meaning! For the FIRST time, everything my brain had been taking in worked together and provided understanding. I could open a book, alone, and have the story told to me by the printed words!

Life was never the same.

It was produced by the local Buffalo PBS station originally. I have no idea if they're involved in this at all.

Well, the rich man/ poor woman dynamic is your basic fairytale. Cinderella finds her Prince.

It's actually an Atheist musical. Judas is right, there are no miracles, etc. Writer Tim Rice intended it as such. The only time I've walked out of a touring Broadway show was at intermission of a version of Jesus Christ Superstar. It had the movie cast, and they had changed it so Judas was being tempted by demons. It destroyed the very POINT of the show.

Stage musicals seem to have become harder to adapt, especially if they're more experimental. You have to be willing to be different. When I saw the touring version of Jersey Boys, I thought it would be impossible to do a movie because of how it's structured: basically, the four leads take turns talking to the audience and telling THEIR version of events. The trailer for the new Clint Eastwood film adaptation is out, and, what do you know, he kept all that in.

I may even give it a chance, now.

Annie is one of those musicals which I think ONLY works live. When you see five young girls dancing on stage, it's fun and lively. If you have forty on a screen with lots of cutting because the kids can't really dance, it becomes lifeless.

Well, he was the "god" when it came to the universe he had created around him. The lack of irony might be a case of the actor/director missing what the writer intended (or, if it's a real quote, missing how Disney intended to be understood).