No one’s there when your dreams at night get creepy No one cares if you grow or if you shrink! No one dries when your eyes get wet an’ weepy! From the cryin’, you would think this place’d sink! Ohhhhhhhh! Empty belly life! Rotten, smelly life! Full-‐of-‐sorrow life! No tomorrow life! Santa Claus, we never see.  Song: It’s the Hard Knock Life (company) All Orphans: It’s the hard-‐knock life for us! It’s the hard-‐knock life for us! ‘Steada treated -‐ We get tricked! ‘Steada kisses -‐ We get kicked! It’s the hard knock life! Got no folks to speak of, so, It’s the hard-‐knock row we hoe! Cotton blankets ‘Steada wool Empty bellies ‘Steada full! It’s the hard knock life! Don’t it feel like the wind is always howlin’? Don’t is seem like there’s never any light? Once a day, don’t you wanna throw the towel in? It’s easier than puttin’ up a fight. (MISS HANNIGAN enters and catches her) Miss Hannigan: Aha! Caught you! Get up and do your chores! Make this dump shine like the top of the Chrysler Building. Kate: Annie, what are you doing? Annie: Runnin’ away. Narrator 2: We’re smack dab in the middle of the Great Depression in the city of New York. Writing in The World of Musical Comedy, author Stanley Green has said, '.she has unquestionably taken her place as Broadway's most beloved waif of all times.Annie, Junior Practice Script Book by Thomas Meehan -‐ Music by Charles Strouse Lyrics by Martin Charnin _ Scene 1: The New York City Orphanage Narrator 1: The time is 1933. It also won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Musical.

Warbucks soon decides he wants to adopt Annie, but when he learns about her dream of finding her parents and the secret of the half-locket she has treasured for so long, he sets his own feelings aside and orders an exhaustive search for Annie's parents.Īnnie went on to win seven Tony awards and became the third longest running musical of the 1970s with 2,377 performances.

Billionaire Oliver Warbucks invites Annie to spend Christmas with him in his mansion, and together, they each discover new happiness. Life in the orphanage had been rough under the strict hand of Miss Hannigan, but Annie's life was about to change. The show, which places Annie, Daddy Warbucks and Annie's mutt, Sandy, in New York City in the midst of the Depression, opened on Broadway on April 21, 1977.Īs an infant, Annie had been abandoned on the front steps of The New York City Municipal Orphanage with a note from her parents promising to return for her someday. The idea of turning Harold Gray's 'Little Orphan Annie' into a musical comedy was the inspiration of lyricist-director Martin Charnin, who convinced Charles Strouse and librettist Thomas Meehan to join in creating it.

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