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The national tour of the beloved Broadway musical ANNIE will come to the North Charleston Performing Arts Center October 28 - 30, 2022. Tickets will go on sale Monday, September 12 at 10AM online at Ticketmaster.com and at the North Charleston Coliseum Advance Ticket Office. Ticket prices start at just $45 (plus applicable fees). For groups of 10 or more, email Groups@NorthCharlestonColiseumPAC.com.

The show is part of the 2022-2023 Best of Broadway series at the North Charleston Performing Arts Center.

This new tour of the iconic Tony Award-winning production is directed by Jenn Thompson, who at the age of 10 stepped into the role of "Pepper" in the Original Broadway production. Scenic designs for the touring production are by Wilson Chin, whose work was most recently featured on Broadway in the critically acclaimed production of Pass Over.

"This show, with its iconic title character, continues to delight generations of theatre-lovers old and new by joyfully singing directly into the face of great adversity with perseverance, guts and guile," said director Jenn Thompson. "For decades, ANNIE has continued to shine brightly, not only as an appeal to our better angels, but also as an example of the thrill of hope, hard-won: promising a better 'Tomorrow' not only for Annie herself, but for all who need her message now more than ever."

Troika Entertainment's COO and Executive Producer, Kori Prior adds, "We are thrilled and excited to have Jenn Thompson helm this new tour of ANNIE. She brings such admiration and connection to the material that we know this production will be fresh, new and full of the heart that makes ANNIE the show we all love."

A multi-week city tour schedule beginning in the fall of 2022, as well as the full design team, will be announced later this spring. For more information, visit AnnieTour.com. For tour booking inquiries, please contact booking@bondtheatrical.com.

Holding onto hope when times are tough can take an awful lot of determination, and sometimes, an awful lot of determination comes in a surprisingly small package. Little Orphan Annie has reminded generations of theatergoers that sunshine is always right around the corner, and now the best-loved musical of all time is set to return in this new production - just as you remember it and just when we need it most. This celebration of family, optimism and the American spirit remains the ultimate cure for all the hard knocks life throws your way.

Hailed by the Chicago Tribune as, "one of the best family musicals ever penned!", ANNIE features the book by Thomas Meehan, music by Charles Strouse and lyrics by Martin Charnin. All three authors received 1977 Tony Awards for their work.

By permission of Tribune Content Agency, LLC, ANNIE is based on Harold Gray's popular comic strip "Little Orphan Annie" which premiered in the 1920s in the New York Daily News and became one of the most widely read strips in the 30s and 40s. Lyricist-director Martin Charnin bought a coffee table book called "The Life and Hard Times of Little Orphan Annie" as a Christmas gift for a friend in 1970. The clerk at the bookstore was too busy to wrap the book, so Charnin took the book home to wrap it. Instead, he read it and fell in love with the strip and set out to secure the rights. The friend never got the book.

The original production of ANNIE had its world premiere on Aug 10, 1976 at the Goodspeed Opera House (Michael J. Price, Executive Director) and opened on Broadway on April 21, 1977 at the Alvin Theatre (Neil Simon theatre). It went on to win the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Musical, seven Drama Desk Awards including Best Musical, the Grammy for Best Cast Show Album and seven Tony Awards including Best Musical, Best Book (Thomas Meehan) and Best Score (Charles Strouse, Martin Charnin). It closed on Broadway after playing 2,377 performances. ANNIE was revived on Broadway in 1997 and again in 2014. It has been made into a film three times (1982, 1999, 2014) and was most recently featured as a live television production on NBC. The show remains one of the biggest Broadway musical hits ever; it has been performed in 28 languages and has been running somewhere around the world for 37 years.

The beloved score for ANNIE includes "Maybe," "It's the Hard Knock Life," "You're Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile," "Easy Street," "I Don't Need Anything But You" and the eternal anthem of optimism, "Tomorrow."

COLUMBIA, S.C. – Governor Henry McMaster, Lieutenant Governor Pamela S. Evette, and First Lady Peggy McMaster's schedules for the week of August 29 will include the following:

Sunday, August 28 to Tuesday, August 30: Gov. McMaster will participate in the Southern States Energy Board's (SSEB) energy conference, Charleston Marriott, 170 Lockwood Drive, Charleston, S.C.

Monday, August 29 at 9:00 AM: Gov. McMaster participated in an event with Nephron Pharmaceuticals, Nephron Hangar, 2695 Aviation Way, West Columbia, S.C.

Tuesday, August 30 at 9:15 AM: Gov. McMaster, Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, and former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant will hold media availability about the Southern States Energy Board's (SSEB) energy conference, Charleston Marriott, Blue Topaz room, 170 Lockwood Drive, Charleston, S.C.

Tuesday, August 30 at 11:45 AM: Lt. Gov. Evette will speak at the BMW Women’s Executive Leadership Luncheon, Greenville Convention Center, Ballroom, 1 Exposition Drive, Greenville, S.C.

Tuesday, August 30 at 2:00 PM: Gov. McMaster will oversee a State Fiscal Accountability Authority meeting, Room 252, Edgar Brown Building, State House grounds, 1100 Gervais Street, Columbia, S.C.

Wednesday, August 31 at 4:00 PM: Gov. McMaster will hold a School Resource Officer School Safety event, Lexington Two Innovation Center, 509 Bulldog Boulevard, Cayce, S.C.

Thursday, September 1 at 10:00 AM: Gov. McMaster will participate in the Governor’s Summit on Veterans’ Affairs, University of South Carolina Alumni Center, 900 Senate Street, Columbia, S.C.

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Gov. Henry McMaster’s Weekly Schedule: August 22, 2022

COLUMBIA, S.C. – Gov. Henry McMaster’s schedule for the week of August 22, 2022, included:

Monday, August 22

5:35 PM: Agency call.

Wednesday, August 24

9:45 AM: Gov. McMaster held a ceremonial bill signing for H. 4837 Optometry Mobile Units, North Charleston Elementary School, 4921 Durant Avenue, North Charleston, S.C.

11:30 AM: Gov. McMaster joined Wounded Nature-Working Veterans, the S.C. Office of Resilience, and the S.C. Department of Natural Resources to tour abandoned commercial and recreational vessels in our waterways, Wappoo Boat Ramp, Charleston, S.C.

2:00 PM: Media availability.

Thursday, August 25

Gov. McMaster was in the Office of the Governor for office hours, 1100 Gervais Street, Columbia, S.C.

11:00 AM: Gov. McMaster held a ceremonial bill signing for S. 11 Paid Family Leave, State House, first floor, 1100 Gervais Street, Columbia, S.C.

1:30 PM: Meeting with a local official.

2:00 PM: Policy meeting.

3:30 PM: Agency meeting.

4:30 PM: Policy meeting.

Friday, August 26

Gov. McMaster was in the Office of the Governor for office hours, 1100 Gervais Street, Columbia, S.C.

3:15 PM: Agency meeting.

4:00 PM: Gov. McMaster and First Lady Peggy McMaster presented the Order of the Palmetto to Shawn Elliott, Governor’s Office, 1100 Gervais Street, Columbia, S.C.

Sunday, August 28

Gov. McMaster participated in the Southern States Energy Board's (SSEB) energy conference, Charleston Marriott, 170 Lockwood Drive, Charleston, S.C.

3:30 PM: Gov. McMaster spoke at the Southern States Energy Board’s Executive Committee Meeting, Charleston Marriott, Crystal Ballroom ABC, 170 Lockwood Drive, Charleston, S.C.

5:00 PM: Policy meeting.

6:00 PM: Gov. McMaster spoke at the Southern States Energy Board’s Opening Reception and Dinner, The William Aiken House, Charleston, S.C.

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NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - So many people know the feeling of sliding on your first pair of glasses and finally being able to see a lot more clearly.

A new law is designed to bring that special moment to more children across South Carolina.

The legislation allows mobile optometry clinics to visit Title 1 schools, offering free screenings and eye exams and fitting and providing students with glasses, with parental consent.

“This will see that our children across the state — and I hope this spreads like wildfire — that they all are able to reach their full potential,” Gov. Henry McMaster said.

McMaster officially signed the new law earlier this year, but he commemorated it Wednesday at North Charleston Elementary School, where he was joined by other elected officials, Charleston County School District leaders and students, and representatives from the national nonprofit Vision to Learn.

The organization lobbied South Carolina’s legislature for the change in law, as its previous language had prohibited Vision to Learn from operating free mobile optometry clinics in South Carolina as it does in other states.

The General Assembly allowed Vision to Learn to operate on a trial basis over the last year before approving the permanent change in law. In that year, the nonprofit reports it provided more than 2,000 students from 17 schools in the Charleston County School District with eye exams, and 1,700 of those kids received free eyeglasses.

“Our program has found that the best way to solve this problem is by bringing access to students right here on campus,” Vision to Learn National Director Damian Carroll said.

District Director of Nursing Ellen Nitz said the new law removes barriers that may be keeping kids from reaching their full potential in the classroom.

“Many of our families will face either financial burdens, transportation issues, parents having to leave work to get to appointments, and then just not even realizing that you need glasses,” Nitz said.

During Wednesday’s event, four CCSD elementary school students received their first pair of glasses, including second grader Taila Sanders, who had selected frames in her favorite color, pink.

“Everything is like so different. It’s like not blurry anymore,” Sanders said.

With the change in law now in effect, Vision to Learn said its next goal is to bring this clinic to more districts across the state and help more South Carolina kids see.

“Our young students experienced unprecedented hardships during the recent pandemic, and now going forward, having access to quality eyecare and prescription glasses will not be one more thing that they or their parents have to worry about,” Rep. William Cogswell, R – Charleston, said.

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It was a crazy week of football in Spartanburg County. And the matchups were plentiful: Headlined by West Florence and Byrnes, as well as a Gaffney win over Fort Dorchester behind a big night from quarterback Grayson Loftis, and App State commit DJ Porter carried Dorman past River Bluff.

Here is a roundup of all the action from Week 5 of high school football in Spartanburg County:

Note: The stats and roundup below reflect information submitted to 864Huddle@Gannett.com and jdandron@greenvillenews.com by 11:30 a.m. Saturday.

Gaffney 35, Fort Dorchester 31: Loftis's 32-yard touchdown pass to Drew Medley with under seven minutes left in the game was the difference. All three of the Duke commit's touchdowns came in the second half. Quashon Tate, Jaiden McDowell and Loftis all rushed for touchdowns. Medley and Emazon Littlejohn caught touchdowns and combined for 14 receptions for 201 yards.

Spartanburg 35, Mauldin 3: Spartanburg improved to 2-3 with the win over Mauldin. The Mavericks are reeling after opening their season with a commanding win over Boiling Springs.

Broome 27, Woodruff 20: Broome junior quarterback Kamajay Brackett-Brannon led the Centurions to a big win over Woodruff to improve to 3-3. Bracket-Brannon had over 250 total yards of offense and two touchdowns. Jaylen McGill scored twice on the ground for Broome and Carlos Cohen caught a touchdown. Kory Scott had nine catches for 67 yards and a touchdown for Woodruff.

Blue Ridge 53, Landrum 21: Blue Ridge (3-3) got back on track with a win as Landrum falls to 2-3.

West Florence 22, Byrnes 19: On the last play of the game, West Florence quarterback Deuce Hudson's TD pass to Darren Lloyd gave West Florence the win. WF scored 15 fourth-quarter points to hand Byrnes its first loss. The Rebels mustered 178 total yards of offense, led by RJ Livingston's 111 rushing yards and a touchdown. Byrnes quarterback Colby Shaw was 9-for-23 passing for 79 yards and a score. Will Fowler had 4.5 total tackles and 2.5 tackles for loss.

Chapman 31, Union County 6: After an 0-2 start, Chapman is now 2-1 in its last three games -- with the lone loss coming against undefeated Clinton.

Colleton Prep 48, Spartanburg Christian 14: SCA fell to 2-3 with the loss to CPA. Asante Jenkins has been the player to watch for the Warriors, as he's approaching the 500-yard mark rushing.

Clover 26, Boiling Springs 0: After beating Greer last week, the Bulldogs were shutout by a Clover team that's shown signs of improvement from a year ago.

Dorman 39, River Bluff 23: Dorman remains undefeated after a commanding win over River Bluff. The Cavs have won each game this season by multiple scores. DJ Porter had a 66-yard receiving touchdown to open the game and rushed for over 200 yards for Dorman. Demarius Foster scored twice on the ground and quarterback Hudson Talley was 5-for-11 passing for 101 yards and a TD. Kendell Lewis rushed for 64 yards and a touchdown; Matthew Karban had a 35-yard field goal.

Didn't play this week: Chesnee and Blacksburg

Missing score: Oakbrook Prep

Joe Dandron covers high school sports for The Greenville News, Spartanburg Herald-Journal and 864Huddle.

A real estate investment firm and property management company have teamed up for a multifamily development planned for North Charleston.

New York City-based CP Capital, a real estate manager specializing in multifamily investments, and Greystar, a Charleston-based real estate company with a background in investment management, development, and property management, will develop Montague Corners — a 336-unit development in North Charleston, according to a news release.

Montague Corners will be located off Interstate 526, just southwest of the soon to be expanded Interstate 26/I-526 interchange, the release stated. The community located two miles from Charleston International Airport, one mile from the North Charleston Coliseum and Performing Arts Center, and three miles from Joint Base Charleston, according to the release.

The project is expected to break ground in October 2022, the release stated, and the first units are anticipated to deliver in Q1 2024, with construction expected to be completed during the summer of 2024.

“Charleston has displayed incredible economic resilience since the start of the pandemic, benefiting from consistent in-migration resulting in impressive job and population growth,” Paul Doocy, co-head of CP Capital, said in the release. “We are proud to continue our partnership with Greystar to deliver Montague Corners and consistently generate value for both our partners and the communities where we invest.”

Montague Corners will feature a pool with outdoor entertainment, co-working spaces, a fitness center, and lounge areas as well as upscale interior finishes such as stainless-steel appliances, stone-surface countertops and vinyl wood flooring, the release stated.

The three-story community will also be located in proximity to the Tanger Outlets and the Park Circle area, where Jamestown plans to redevelop a 45-acre site into a mixed-use project consisting of 1.2 million square feet of office space, residences, shopping, dining and a concert hall, the release stated.

“We are thrilled to continue developing multifamily spaces in the high-performing Charleston market, and could not ask for a better partner in CP Capital,” Ben Liebetrau, Greystar managing director, Carolinas, said in the release. “Montague Corners’ combination of a convenient, central location and best-in-class amenities will provide renters with the perfect environment for their modern lifestyle, and allow the Greater Charleston area to continue its already impressive growth.”

CP Capital, formerly known as HQ Capital Real Estate, has partnered with Greystar on five development projects in the past, most recently the Brighton Park Apartments in Brighton, Colorado, according to the release.

Financial costs of the project were not disclosed.