My Children and the Arts.....Kind of

I found the musical "Annie" from 1982 On Demand tonight and forced my children and their friends to watch it.  Here's how that worked out for me:

Middle Child:  Wow, that girl can really sing good!  They can ALL sing good.  Why can they sing so good?  Why is that lady so mean?

Me:  She hates kids.

Middle Child:  But why??  Is she a bad guy?

Me:  She just doesn't like them.  Shhhh.  Watch.

Friend:  Why is that girl so happy?  Why is she smiling all the time?

Me:  Because she is an orphan and gets to live with a billionaire.  Wouldn't you be happy if you had a million bajillion dollars?

Friend:  That's what my mom says.  Hey, that guy looks familiar.

Me:  The bald guy?

Friend:  Yeah.  He looks so familiar.

Me:  That's because he looks like the guy off Star Trek.  Jean Luc Picard.

Friend:  That's it!

Me:  Yeah, it's not him.  Shhh.  Watch.  This guy is a bodyguard.  He does tricks and likes 7-Up.  Watch.

Middle Child:  Hey!  How's he make that airplane do that?  Why does he get to have special powers?

Me:  Don't know.

Second Grader:  This is dumb.  I'm watching Pokemon. 

And then they all left me.....except for Baby Girl.  We watched until Daddy Warbucks gave the locket to Annie and then we turned it off so she could go to bed.

The end.