Annie

A perennial audience and family favorite, this 1977 Broadway hit based on the popular comic strip heroine garnered seven Tony Awards, along with a Theatre World Award for Andrea McArdle in the title role. Set in 1933 Depression-era America, Annie follows a spunky young orphan as she searches for her parents, a journey which takes her from a dreary New York City orphanage to an opulent, loving new home with billionaire Oliver Warbucks and his staff. Along the way, she foils an evil plot hatched by embattled orphanage director Miss Hannigan, helps President Franklin Roosevelt put the finishing touches on the New Deal, and leaves everyone she meets “fully dressed” with a smile and an optimistic outlook.

Martin Charnin and Charles Strouse’s tuneful score includes “Tomorrow,” “It’s the Hard Knock Life,” “You’re Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile,” “NYC,” “Easy Street,” “I Don’t Need Anything But You,” “Little Girls,” and “Something Was Missing.”