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“One of the reasons I wanted to do ‘Annie’ was that it was going to be, for sure, one of the last great big blockbuster Hollywood musicals,” Curry explains. “Not that it found a blockbuster audience, but I wanted to see what it was like to work on one of those dinosaurs. As it was, ‘Annie’ proved that particular animal extinct.”
It was the film’s ridiculous size that made ‘Annie’ such a fascinating experience.
“It was huge fun,” he admits. “An example of that is the ‘Easy Street’ sequence, my one number in the film. It took two or three weeks to shoot and six weeks to rehearse. There were 50 extras and 50 dancers, jugglers and people on stilts and stuntmen – more people than a Mafia funeral. After it was done, they scrapped the whole thing and just shot Bernadette Peters, Carol Burnett and me doing the song in an office because they realised the big number was like riding a mastodon to Hell. And it was a rather intimate little number, which they finally realised. At the same time, it was wonderful shooting it – at a quarter million dollars a day. It’s terrific to be part of that. If we’re talking about fantasies, that was certainly one of mine – to be in a gigantic Hollywood production.”
📸: Tim Curry, Bernadette Peters and Carol Burnett filming the original, never-used version of ‘Easy Street’ - ‘Annie’ - 1982
