Warning, slight spoilers to the original Annie movie!
The first day of the trails for the play began, all the students meant to perform were in the hall, given copies of the script to read them before performing each scene. This scene was the start of the play, with the orphanage and the orphans along with the song 'Maybe' before being interrupted by their caretaker and forced to clean.
Cassandra Dusty, Penelope Lightblaze, Abby Filesh, Katie Greenway, Isabella Bluebelle, Brittany Alley, Ceria Dearm and of course Vanellope Foxtrot went onto the stage to read out the script to learn it. While Val would read her lines, Ceria would always glare at her with demon eyes. The other girls noticed and would shuffle away from her, even Millie. Ceria was mad, so she planned revenge.
Once the practice finished, everyone left to go back to class. However, when the teacher wasn't looking, Ceria carelessly pushed Vanellope down the stairs of the stage. Everyone was so busy talking and leaving for their classes that no one noticed. Vanellope whimpered and wiped her eyes to avoid crying.
Before she could get up, Ceria grabbed her red bowtie and pulled her towards her face. "Just listen here, as long as they're not looking, I can treat you as bad as this 'villian' I'm forced to play as until you give me the role I deserve."
"Well." Val started, glaring at her. "You don't need my help for that, you're already that role." And with that, she got up, grabbed her bag and went to leave; but she turned her head halfway and smirked. "But if you really want to hurt me, go ahead; you'll not only lose your education, but you'll be nothing but a bloody stain on a giant's high heel boot!"
Ceria laughed it off. "Yeah, but giants don't exist; I'll believe it when I see it." She sneered, before watching the innocent teen leave.
The next day, they performed the next scene. This was mainly a practice for the stage people to change the scenery from the girl's bedroom to the main hallway of the orphanage. This scene was the song sequence of 'It's the hard knock life' and the part where Annie gets snuck out of the orphanage in a laundry basket.
Ceria just secretly loved the scene to the song, watching Vanellope and Abby acting as slaves to her. Millie felt a little betrayed, seeing the pleasureful smirk of Ceria that her mind went into rethinking of being her friend. Even if she wasn't one of the orphans, she did feel sorry for them.
The third scene was when Annie met Sandy and sings the famous song, 'Tomorrow'. Even if it was a bit of late casting, Phillip was casted as the dog; he didn't mind since it meant that he wasn't left out. When Vanellope sang her solo, everyone clapped and cheered as they believed that it showed that the show was going to be a success, well, everyone clapped apart from Ceria of course who was giving dirty looks to both Val and Millie.
When the fourth scene came around, Tia was slightly nervous as it was her turn in the spotlight. But with a bit of encouragement from Sammy and Val, she managed to gain the confidence to perform the scene. This was when Grace comes to try and convince Miss Hannigan to allow her boss, Oliver Warbucks, to borrow one of the orphans to stay at his house. After much debate, she manages to gain the chance to borrow Annie to the billionaire, ending with the song 'Little Girls'. Ceria huffed after the practice, thinking that she would had made a better Annie since she would have the best performance being in the mansion.
Then the next few scenes came along, which at this point the costumes had come up; so everyone was wearing their costumes. The first scene in costumes was with Annie first arriving at the mansion with all the servants and Grace welcoming Annie to the song of 'I think I'm gonna like it here', with only Warbucks not wanting to be really welcoming to her because of the fact that Annie was a girl when he wanted a boy. After that, came the scene that took place a few weeks later. Warbucks tries to tell Grace to take Annie to the movies, but she convinces him to come along with them. After that, and during the song 'N.Y.C', he realizes that he has grown an effection for Annie and decides to adopt her properly. Sam did have a fun time acting, but he did feel bad for being mean to his friends,specially since one of them was his crush; but they forgave him knowing it was acting.
Soon came another scene with Ceria in it, along with Millie and Brandon for his first appearance in the play. In this scene, Miss Hannigan tells her brother and his girlfriend, Lily and Rooster, about the situation with Annie and her staying at the mansion; the three then express how they'll use this to gain some money in the song 'Easy street' before Act One ends. Ceria was starting to get exicted, waiting to see what her character would do to make Annie's life miserable which in turn would make Vanellope miserable. This made Brandon and Millie feel very uncomfortable.
After a little break from practicing on the stage, the students were brought back into the hall to practice Act Two.
The first scene of the Act was the proposal from Warbucks to allow him to adopt Annie, but she declines it as she is still on the search for her parents, revealing her locket to him. But Warbucks, rather than being upset, decides to help Annie find them. Vanellope thought it was confusing as she would have wanted to be adopted it by a rich family; then she remembered how Mettaton would probably kidnap her back.
Then, in the play, they went to a radio station to broadcast her to the city to bring light to her story and to help track down her parents with a reward of $50,000; when afterwards, Bert Healy (played by Nigel Creal) the radio host, sings a song with the band 'Boylan Sisters' to the song, 'You're never fully dressed without a smile'. Sam, Tia and Val couldn't help but slightly dancing to the song.
It then cuts to the three villains, Miss Hannigan, Lily and Rooster, listening to the radio hear about the reward for finding Annie parents. Miss Hannigan tells them that her parents are actually dead since they died in a fire, keeping it a secret from her for the time she's been there. So they make a plan, Rooster and Lily pretend to be her parents and collect the money, but then get rid of her so he doesn't suspect them as faker; they express this in a reprise of the song, 'Easy street'. However, the other orphans hear them and go to warn Annie, but Miss Hannigan overhears them and locks them up in the closet so they can't help Annie. Ceria finally began to enjoy the role, realizing that this is the best way for her to inflict pain onto Vanellope without getting in trouble, leaving Millie and Brandon feeling sick to their stomachs.
Before the evening, the following scene had Warbucks and Grace taking Annie to the president of the USA, Franklin Roosevelt, played by Jerry Mons, to give her a talk about it. He told her to always be optimistic during a reprise of the song, 'Tomorrow'. Vanellope actually teared up as she needed this advice just as much as Annie did in this story.
After that scene, once the characters return home, they find Rooster and Lily there, claiming to be Annie's parents. At first they are suspitous on them, but once they show legal documents of her birth and other things, including the other half of the locket. With that, Warbucks has to let her go; but once she enters the car, she finds that they're working with Miss Hannigan and are actually kidnapping her. Vanellope hearing this gets worried while Ceria got extremely excited.
Later on, they stop near a railroad track to leave her for dead. But they leave the door unlocked and Annie rushes out, Rooster chases her to the railroad tower as she starts to climb up it in order to try and escape while the two female adults try to escape only to be caught by the police. The police were sent in by the president and Warbucks to rescue her when they discover about her real parents and the evil plan from the orphans who escaped the closet with the help of Sandy. Annie gets into a helicopter and is saved while Rooster, Lily and Miss Hannigan get arrested. Luckily, with climbing up such a tall tower, the two students were attached with safety hooks so they would not fall off; however, the evil side of Ceria came though and she realized she could use this to get rid of her forever and make it seem like a TOTAL accident.
Then it was final scene, the whole cast singing the song 'I don't need anything but you' after Warbucks adopted Annie and proposes to Grace to marry her to make his family complete. Annie getting everything she wished for, parents, a home, a pet and giving her friends freedom. After the practice, everyone got excited, knowing that they were going to perform it in a few weeks, so they left to start memorizing their lines to make it perfect. Vanellope being exicted to invite Mettaton to it so he could see her perform while Ceria had a more sinister idea of what will happen in that production…
