Surflight Theatre went with a couple of oldies but goodies to open up its 2021 main stage season with “Annie” and “A Chorus Line.” That made total sense. The two shows, after all, had won a combined 16 Tony Awards, with both earning Best Musical honors and the latter tacking on a Pulitzer Prize for Drama. They ran for 8,514 Broadway performances between them in their original runs. They surely would put fannies into seats at Surflight and did.

But as members of the Monty Python’s Flying Circus troupe used to say, “And now for something completely different.”