Annie

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Annie is a Broadway musical based on the well-known comic strip "Little Orphan Annie" and features such well-known songs as "Tomorrow" and "It's A Hard Knock Life". It is about an 11-year old orphan named Annie, who thinks her birth parents are still alive, but has to live at an orphanage run by the cruel Miss Hannigan. Annie is than selceted by Grace, the assitant of Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks, a billionare, to spend two weeks with him. Warbucks at first does not like Annie, but soon grows to love her and wants to help her. Hearing that she wants to find her parents, he sets up a cash reward. This leads to a plot to kidnap Annie, by Miss Hannigan, her brother Rooster, and his girlfriend, Lily St. Regis. The play opened in 1977 and was really popular. In 1982 it was made into a movie starring Aileen Quinn, Albert Finney, Carol Burnett, Tim Curry, and Bernadette Peters.