EDITOR: Leapin’ lizards. Did Erika Grinch, I mean Erika Milvy, wear a
button saying, ”I hate ‘Annie’,” when she went to review the show?
I earnestly hope she didn’t push a moppet down the stairs or burst a tyke’s
balloon with one of her talons rushing out of the theater. ”Annie,” as Milvy
undoubtedly knows, is an American musical classic geared toward family
audiences and therefore has always been filled with smiley-faced
encouragement.
Did she really expect a Jay-Z rapper ghetto version she so bluntly wishes
this ”toothache” (her word) were?
And speaking of words, have you noticed the other cheap-shot adjectives she
used in describing the show, ”frustrating,” ”oppressively cute,”
”interminable,” ”syrupy,” ”toothless” and ”cloying” (twice).
Then the divine Milvy takes the poor little orphan to task for that
”tight-curled ‘fro and the god-awful red and white dress.” Marissa
O’Donnell, in the title role, would look silly wearing a green Mohawk,
studded, black leather mini, and see-through tube top.
With all the heartbreak caused by Hurricane Katrina, the death and carnage
in Iraq and the ”war president” who is responsible for it, don’t you think
some of us deserve a couple of hours of ”sunny-side-up optimism”?
BOB CANNING
Petaluma
