Annie
Shows · Annie
Annie (Andrea McArdle), an 11-year-old foundling at the Municipal Orphanage, yearns for her parents to rescue her from the clutches of mean-spirited, bibulous Agatha Hannigan (Dorothy Loudon), the orphanage’s matron. Presently, a miraculous parent-figure does show up in the person of billionaire Oliver Warbucks (Reid Shelton) whose secretary, Grace Farrell (Sandy Faison), has invited Annie to spend Christmas with him…
- Opened
- 1977
- Performances
- 2,377
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Revolution
Won the Tony Award for Best Musical, 1977.
Productions5 on Broadway
| 1977 | Alvin Theatre Original. April 21, 1977 · Martin Charnin | 2,377 performances · 7 Tony wins |
| 1978 | Victoria Palace Theatre Transfer. | |
| 1997 | Martin Beck Theatre Revival. March 26, 1997 · Peter Gennaro | 239 performances |
| 2012 | Palace Theatre Revival. November 8, 2012 · James Lapine | 487 performances |
| 2017 | Piccadilly Theatre Transfer. July 2, 2026 |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 16 albums held
Licensing 1 entry
| US | Music Theatre International Annie matched on title alone: a lead, not a confirmed licensor |
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54 passages naming Annie, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
The show was quickly adopted by theatregoers who made it the third longest running musical of the 1970s. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p240
Breaux, Marc Kiss Me, Kate, 141 Annie, 247 Brisebois, Danielle Annie, 247 book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-green-stanley-green-kay-5th-ed-rev-and-updated-by#p353
Annie moved in from the Alvin across the street for one month, followed by the campy musical Oh, Brother!, based on Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors, with the action transferred to the contemporary Middle East. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p220
Simon's play Fools, with John Rubinstein, had a brief run in 1981, followed by Annie, which moved in from another theatre. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p229
Andrea McArdle as Little Orphan Annie is menaced by Dorothy Loudon, as Janine Ruane and Robyn Finn look on in Annie (1977). book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p292
Martin Charnin, Thomas Meehan, and Charles Strouse's musical adaptation oi the popular comic strip "Little Orphan Annie" played at the AJvin for almost five years before moving to another theatre. It received Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Book, Best Score, Best Sets, Best Costumes, Best Choreography, and Best Actr… book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p293
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