Track Listing

1. Maybe (Annie)--Alicia Morton
2. Hard Knock Life--Alicia Morton, Marissa Rago, Danelle Wilson, Nanea Miyata, Lalaine, Erin Adams, and Sarah Hyland
3. Hard Knock Life (Reprise) --Marissa Rago, Danelle Wilson, Nanea Miyata, Lalaine, Erin Adams, and Sarah Hyland
4. Tomorrow (Annie)--Alicia Morton
5. Little Girls--Kathy Bates
6. I Think I'm Gonna Like It Here--Audra McDonald and Alicia Morton
7. NYC--Victor Garber, Audra McDonald, Alicia Morton, and Andrea McArdle
8. NYC (Reprise/Lullaby)--Victor Garber
9. Easy Street--Alan Cumming, Kathy Bates, and Kristin Chenoweth
10. You're Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile (radio version)--Jerry Whitman, Bobbi Page, Linda Harmon, and Edie Lehmann-Boddicker
11. You're Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile (cast version)--Danelle Wilson, Marissa Rago, Sarah Hyland, Erin Adams, Lalaine, and Nanea Miyata
12. Easy Street (Reprise)--Alan Cumming, Kathy Bates, and KristinChenoweth
13. Something Was Missing--Victor Garber
14. I Don't Need Anything But You--Victor Garber and Alicia Morton
15. Maybe/Tomorrow (Reprise)--Audra McDonald
16. Little Girls (Reprise)--Kathy Bates
17. Finale/I Don't Need Anything But You (Reprise)--Victor Garber, Audra McDonald, and Alicia Morton

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #36705 in Music
• Released on: 2006-04-03
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .22 pounds
• Running time: 90 minutes

From Amazon.com
The cast of Disney's 1999 television production of Annie reads like a who's who of Tony winners: Grace is played by Audra McDonald (Ragtime, Carousel, Master Class), Rooster is Alan Cumming (Cabaret), and Lily is Kristin Chenoweth (You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown). Add Alicia Morton (Young Cosette in Broadway's Les Misérables) in the title role and Victor Garber (Sweeney Todd, Assassins) as Daddy Warbucks, and you have a cast that is refreshingly not driven by Hollywood box office, other than Kathy Bates as Miss Hannigan.

Resumés aside, how is the soundtrack? Well, McDonald might be a touch operatic and Garber a little young, but these are minor quibbles with a cast that is effective throughout (even Bates). Morton might not be the belter Andrea McArdle was in the original cast, but she's very good, and if anything the difference makes her sound like the little girl she is. Perhaps the best moment is McArdle--still sounding great at the ripe old age of 35--making a brief cameo as the star-to-be in "N.Y.C." Longtime fans of the show will notice that, in order to fit a two-hour prime-time window, the production had to leave out most of the historical context of the FDR administration ("A New Deal for Christmas," "We'd Like to Thank You, Herbert Hoover"), as well as some other familiar numbers ("You Won't Be an Orphan for Long," "Annie"). This soundtrack is thus best considered a souvenir of the television production or a complement to, rather than a replacement for, the original cast recording. --David Horiuchi