Rosanne Sorrentino

Rosanne Sorrentino (Annie) Annie is a dream come true for 12-year-old Rosanne who is making her professional stage debut in this production. The young Long Islander auditioned with numerous other fledglings for the title role in the most popular Broadway musical of the decade. She was in fifth grade at the time, and was not only teacher's aide but assisted the speech therapist as a tutor. In 1976 she was bitten by the acting bug when she played a schoolgirl in the American Academy of Dramatic Arts' summer workshop production of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, which she recently learned was written by Jay Presson Allen, the wife of Lewis Allen, one of Annie's producers. Rosanne was also a member of the school chorus and it was under the direction of her music teacher, Liz Costa, that she developed her love for singing.