Grace Farrell, the assistant to the billionaire Oliver Warbucks, comes to the orphanage, asking for an orphan to spend Christmas at his mansion.
The shanty town is broken up by the cops, who take Annie back to the orphanage.Īt the orphanage, Miss Hannigan vents her frustration at being surrounded by children (" Little Girls"). They sarcastically toast the former president ("We'd Like to Thank You, Herbert Hoover").
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Later, Annie and Sandy stumble upon a Hooverville, a shanty town full of formerly well-off people suddenly rendered homeless by the Great Depression.
She fools a police officer into believing he is her dog, named Sandy. She tells him of better days to come (" Tomorrow"). The other orphans cheer her on, but await punishment when Hannigan returns ("Hard Knock Life (Reprise)").Īnnie escapes, running into a friendly stray dog. Miss Hannigan realizes she's gone and chases after the truck. Later on, Bundles the laundry man comes in to pick up the blankets, allowing Annie to escape in his truck. To punish Annie's behavior, she forces all the girls to clean, and they lament the terrible conditions of the orphanage (" It's the Hard Knock Life"). Annie decides to escape to find her parents, but is caught by Miss Hannigan, the cruel keeper of the orphanage. When six-year-old Molly wakes up from a bad dream, Annie comforts her by singing about her own parents even though they abandoned her at the orphanage as a baby, she holds on to the hope that they will come back for her ("Maybe"). In 1933 in New York City, eleven-year-old Annie sleeps in an orphanage with several other girls her age. Meehan's book was accepted by Charnin and Strouse, but considerable material had to be trimmed out – material which Meehan would later restore for his novelization. Meehan saw the character of Annie as a 20th-century American female version of the titular orphan characters created by Charles Dickens in works such as Oliver Twist and David Copperfield, with the mystery of Annie's abandonment and unknown parenthood as consistent with a strand of mysteries in Dickens' tales. As all three of Meehan, Charnin and Strouse were from New York, and given what he saw as the downbeat mood of the then-current Nixon era and Vietnam War, Meehan set his story in New York during the similarly downbeat Great Depression. Meehan researched by re-reading prints of the comic strip, but was unable to find any satisfactory material for a musical other than the characters of Annie, Oliver Warbucks, and Sandy, so he decided to write his own story.
The original Broadway production opened in 1977 and ran for nearly six years, setting a record for the Alvin Theatre (now the Neil Simon Theatre). Annie is a Broadway musical based upon the popular Harold Gray comic strip Little Orphan Annie and loosely based on the 1885 poem Little Orphant Annie written by James Whitcomb Riley, with music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin, and book by Thomas Meehan.
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