Annie occurs as musical based upon the popular Harold Gray comic strip Little Orphan Annie. A music is by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin, and a book by Thomas Meehan. Notable songs from either a musical comedy include "Tomorrow" & "It's A Hard Knock Life".

A story deals by owning an 11-season-old orphaned girl known as Annie, world health organization is chosen to spend fortnight by owning billionaire Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks. Though cold & distant initially, Warbucks comes to such as a girl & one of these days wants to adopt her. However Annie believes her parents come however alive. Warbucks so publicly announces that he might give the cash reward to her very parents. This prompts a plot to kidnap the girl per cruel orphanage manager Miss Hannigan, Hannigan's brother Cock, & his girfriend Lily St. Regis.

A original Broadway production opened at the Alvin Theatre on April 21, 1977 and ran for 2,377 performances. It starred Andrea McArdle as Annie, Reid Shelton as Daddy Warbucks, and Dorothy Loudon as Miss Hannigan. It was nominated for Eleven Tony Awards and won 7, including Best Musical, Best Score, and Best Book.

A film version, mass produced inside 1982 by Columbia Pictures, starred Aileen Quinn as Annie, Albert Finney as Daddy Warbucks, Carol Burnett as Miss Hannigan, Bernadette Peters as Lily, Ann Reinking as Grace, and Tim Curry as Rooster. It was directed by John Huston, his first & single film musical theater. A film's reviews ranged from either caring to highly hostile, & inside spite of a $57 milliin Usa pack professional require (making it 10th greatest grossing film of the month), the film however did non profit on its theatrical release.

2 stage sequels down the road appeared, ''Annie II: Miss Hannigan's Retaliation within 1990 and Annie Warbucks in 1993, and neither the single was a brobdingnagian hit.

The sequel to the 1982 film, Annie: A Royal Adventure!'' was processed for television inside 1995. A sequel starred Ashley Johnson, Joan Collins, George Hearn and Ian McDiarmid and involves an evil noblewoman's plot to blow higher Buckingham Palace.

The mass produced-for-TV moving picture version appeared around 1999 starring Kathy Bates as Miss Hannigan, Kristin Chenoweth as Lily, Victor Garber when Daddy Warbucks, and newcomer Alicia Morton as Annie. It was by The Walt Disney Company and received mixed reviews but high ratings.

The Broadway revival within 1997 starred Nell Carter as Miss Hannigan, but argument surrounded a casting of the nominal character. A original girl cast in the role, Joanna Pacitti, was fired and replaced by her standby in the period of rehearsals. Public sentiment seemed to side by owning Pacitti when she was the winner of the extremely-publicized contest to locate a fresh Annie sponsored per emporium Macy's. This super public incident, coupled by owning the like mixed reviews a freshly staging garnered, doomed it to a short do.