Eisenhower Jr. High School Presents Annie Jr.

Mrs. Puja Ramaswamy and The EJH Choirs performed Annie Jr. March 20th - 22nd at Eisenhower Jr. High School.  Over 80 students ranging from Grades 4-8 helped contribute to the production.  Annie, Jr. is  a story about an orphan (Kayla O'Donnell/Jenna Neufeldt)  who charms everyone she meets despite a next-to-nothing start in the Depression-era New York City of the 1930s.  She is determined to find her parents, who abandoned her years ago on the doorstep of an orphanage run by the cruel, embittered Miss Hannigan (Nandini Sadagopan/Mia Sannasardo).  When billionaire Oliver Warbucks (Sam Hanson) decides to invite an orphan to his mansion for Christmas, Annie gets her chance to experience NYC anew outside the confines of the orphanage.  Despite Miss Hannigan's evil machinations, Annie befriends President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Andrew Goldbranson/Bobby Smid)  and finds a new home alongside Warbucks, his personal secretary Grace Farrell (Amber Kulpinski), and a lovable mutt named Sandy (Sarah Balle).