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Musicals Based on Comic Strips: Annie, the Addams Family, You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, It's a Bird...it's a Plane...it's Superman
Paperback. Books LLC 2010-05-04.
ISBN 9781155463841
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Annie, the Addams Family, You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, It's a Bird...it's a Plane...it's Superman, Snoopy!!! the Musical, Doonesbury, Li'l Abner, Annie Warbucks. Excerpt: Annie Annie is a Broadway musical based upon the popular Harold Gray comic strip Little Orphan Annie , with music by Charles Strouse , lyrics by Martin Charnin , and the book by Thomas Meehan . The musical ran for nearly six years on Broadway, setting a record for the Alvin Theatre (now the Neil Simon Theatre ). It spawned numerous productions in many countries, as well as national tours, and won the Tony Award for Best Musical. The musical's songs "Tomorrow" and "It's the Hard-Knock Life" are its more popular pieces. Plot synopsis It is 1933 and eleven-year-old Annie is in the Municipal Girls Orphanage, along with Molly, who is six, Kate, who is seven, Tessie, who is ten, July, who is thirteen, Pepper, who is twelve and Duffy, who is thirteen. When Molly awakes from a bad dream at 3:00AM, Annie comforts her. Molly then asks her to read the note her parents gave her in 1922, when she was left at the doorstep of the orphanage. The note says that her parents will come pick her up, so Annie is always hopeful that they are still out there ("Maybe"). Annie decides to escape to find her parents, but is caught by the orphanage supervisor Miss Hannigan, who is currently suffering from a hangover. Miss Hannigan is angered by this and forces all the girls to vigorously clean the orphanage ("It's the Hard Knock Life"). Shortly after, Mr Bundles, the laundry man, comes in to pick up the blankets. While Miss Hannigan is flirting with him, Annie climbs into the laundry basket and the orphans cover her up with blankets. Once Miss Hannigan realizes Annie is gone, the other orphans express their frustration ("It's the Har
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