Annie Oakley and the Princess Cafe at Santa Monica Playhouse

Santa Monica Playhouse presents Annie Oakley and the Princess Café, a heart-warming rhythm and boos musical comedy that offers great audience interaction as they boo the villain and cheer the heroine in the true spirit of the American Melodrama. Annie Oakley coming back to life in 2017? Impossible. But that's exactly what happens as the legendary heroine comes to the aid of a single mom, Kat, and her daughters, struggling to find a balance between the bottom-line temptations of modern living and the comforting solid roots of tradition. Should "Annie's Place," the local gathering-place celebrating wild-west tradition, passed down through the generations of women in Kat's family, become the new-fangled, modernized "Princess Café?" That's exactly what wealthy land-owner Mable Q. Moneypots wants! But is the "out with the old, in with new" Moneypots mentality the right one? Should Kat sell her family café? Should Princesses replace Cowgirls? Or is there a way to unite the old and the new? Audiences help Annie, Kat and her daughters hold their own against smarmy villain Mable Q. Moneypots, and create a whole new family tradition.