Whoopi Goldberg will be at Madison Square Garden this holiday season with a tour of the hit musical Annie. She will play the villainous Miss Hannigan, who runs an orphanage and terrorizes Annie and the other little girls.
Whoopi Goldberg Joins Cast of Musical 'Annie' Details
Goldberg joins the show in the second week of its five-week engagement at The Theater at Madison Square Garden. The new tour begins with a November run at Chicago's The Chicago Theatre before arriving at MSG. Earlier reports incorrectly stated that Goldberg was part of the Chicago cast, but she will appear exclusively in NYC from December 11 to January 5.
Goldberg, the host of ABC's The View, is no stranger to the New York stage. She has appeared on Broadway seven times, from her groundbreaking 1984 solo show Whoopi Goldberg to her most recent Sister Act in 2011.
As Miss Hannigan sings the second biggest showstopper number of the entire show (after “Tomorrow,” of course): Along with a few criminals she recruits, Hannigan celebrates the dark plan with “Easy Street.”
