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Old 01-28-2009, 12:14 AM
BetteDavisEyes BetteDavisEyes is offline
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Originally Posted by deadbear80 View Post
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Joanna Pacitti the girl who a number of years ago won the right (through a Macy's contest) to be Annie on Broadway and then as the show was in 'tryouts' out of town was replaced? I feel like her name sounds familiar. If this is the girl I'm thinking of, her family sued saying she had the right to be Annie since she won the contest. I believe they eventually settled. And if I'm also remembering correctly, the producers felt like she just didn't have enough charisma to carry the show the way they felt it should have been carried.

/end random hijack


You are correct. Barbara Walters even did a boo-hoo sob story in her defense saying she should have been Annie.
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