Elizabeth Croyle as Annie and Cassidy Bowser as Miss Hannigan rehearse a scene from the musical “Annie.” Allegheny-Clarion Valley High School will present the musical at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday in the high school auditorium.

FOXBURG — Allegheny-Clarion Valley High School will present the musical “Annie” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday in the high school auditorium, 776 Route 58

The show is under the direction of Julie Powell and Jenny Lowrey with Sydney Palmer as the stage manager.

Other crew members include Roe Baum, Destiny Hunt and Kenzy Kellogg.

PLOT SYNOPSIS

It's 1933 the country is in the depths of the Depression. Annie, 11, is living in the Municipal Orphanage on New York's Lower East Side.

Miss Hannigan is the principal in charge of the orphanage and needs no lessons on being compared to the Wicked Witch of the West. Annie decides to escape and try and find her parents. Naturally this proves unsuccessful.

However, Grace Farrell, secretary to the millionaire Oliver Warbucks, is searching for an orphan that she might invite back to the Warbucks' household to celebrate Christmas.

Despite Warbucks' initial disappointment that Grace has not found a boy, Oliver takes to her and institutes a nationwide search to try and find the little girl's real parents.

Miss Hannigan interferes and primes her brother, Rooster, and his girlfriend, Lily, suggesting that they claim Annie as their daughter and thus the reward that goes with the information.

Meanwhile Annie is in Washington cheering up the president, Franklin D Roosevelt. However, Rooster and Lily turn up at the Warbucks' and claim Annie — and the reward.

Grace, however, has seen Rooster at Miss Hannigan's office and smells a rat. Subsequently the couple's fraudulent claim is exposed — at the same time it is discovered that Annie's parents had, in fact, died some time ago.

Warbucks plans to adopt Annie, and her fellow orphans are invited back to the Warbucks' home to share in the festival of Christmas — just as America looks forward to future prosperity in the wake of the depression.

FOR TICKETS

Tickets are $5 for students and $8 for adults and are available at the door.

CAST

Elizabeth Croyle, Annie; Braden Murray, Oliver Warbucks; Sierra Verostek, Grace Farrell; Cassidy Bowser, Miss Hannigan; Brent Hetrick, Rooster;

McKenna Armagost, Lily St. Regis; Jonathan Powell, Burt Healy; John Healy, Drake; Jimmy Powell, President Roosevelt; Karly King, Audra Lykins; Bella Hunt, the Boylan Sisters;

Marissa Fisher, Pepper; Abby Barris, Duffy; Cejae Wyman, July; Nicole Sherry, Tessa; Raelyn Fletcher, Kate; and Ivy Black, Molly.

ORPHANS

Madalyn Dehart, Abigail Griebel, Aubrie Griebel, Adalynn Hartzell, Alivya Hartzell, Gianna Louise, Isabella Mason, Madilyn Myers, Malia Page, Cora Weigle, Evann Jenkins, Natalie Myers, Rayane Sherry and Roni Shaffer.

ENSEMBLE

Anthony Palmer, Austin Eaton, Caleb Penny, Mady Hetzler, Emilee Klingler, Kaylee Merwin, Damon Weaver, Lily Preston, Madilyn Dittman, Abri Forsyth, Summer Young, Andrew Verostek, Allison Lewis, Gina Rhoades, Colleen Verostek, Rylee Bowser, Kaitlyn Madden, Shania Whitmer and Kylee Cartwright.