NBC’s ‘Annie Live!’ Casts Annie

Emmy Award nominee Bernadette Peters fully supports the casting of young Black actress Celina Smithto lead NBC’s Annie Live!, a musical TV special with Smith portraying little orphan Annie.

We’re getting a mini Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt reunion!

Celina Smith is set to play Annie in NBC’s upcoming Annie Live! holiday production.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVNBC’s “Annie Live!” has booked Jane Krakowski as Lily St. Regis.Krakowski reunites with her “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” co-star Tituss Burgess in this live holiday musical, as she will play the sassy and sticky-fingered partner of his swindler, Rooster Hannigan.

Jane Krakowski is joining NBC’s Annie Live! in the role of the duplicitous Lily St. Regis, a part that will pair the actress with her Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt co-star Tituss Burgess.

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A star is born. NBC has announced Celina Smith will play the titular role in their live production of Annie.

has found its Annie!Following a nationwide search, the holiday production has cast 12-year-old Celina Smith to play the coveted title role. She'll be joining previously announced stars Taraji P.

Newcomer Celina Smith, who is 12 years old, has landed the role of Annie in NBC’s upcoming Annie Live musical!

Tituss Burgess as Rooster. The last high-profile African-American actress to be cast as “Annie” was Oscar-nominated Quvenzhané Wallis for a 2014 film that also starred Cameron Diaz as Miss Hannigan and Jamie Foxx as Daddy Warbucks. Unfortunately — and all too predictably — there was a racist backlash among some “Annie” fans over the fact that the famous orphan was no longer a freckled redhead, as portrayed by Andrea McArdle in the 1977 Broadway musical. “So this #Annie movie is all wrong.

Celina Smith is set to play Annie in NBC’s upcoming “Annie Live!” holiday production.

Twelve-year-old Celina Smith, a cast member of Tyler Perry’s Young Dylan on Nickelodeon, has landed the title role of NBC’s Annie Live!, the upcoming holiday production of the classic Broadway musical.

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Tituss Burgess is the latest star to join the cast of Annie Live!