Apparently there are a lot of people around who are sicker of Annie than I am. The 1977 musical based on the comic-strip moppet, which won seven Tony Awards and ran for nearly six years, has been ...

Jenn Thompson is living proof the sun truly does come out tomorrow. After originating the role of Pepper during the inaugural 1977 Broadway run of “Annie,” the actress — who returned to the musical ...

About a century ago, a comic strip called “Little Orphan Annie” began its decades-long run in newspapers. It was followed by radio programs, movies, and eventually a massively successful Broadway ...

While we were in elementary school, friend Ann Scamerhorn held a distinction among her classmates in 1980. Her parents had driven the nearly two-hour trek to Chicago for her to see the national ...

When it comes to comfort food, the occasional tasty surprise is always welcome, but for the most part we want what's worked for us before. "Annie," the endlessly tuneful and familiar musical about the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Three-time Tony Award-winner Charles Strouse, Broadway’s industrious, master melody-maker who composed the music for such classic musical theater hits as “Annie,” “Bye Bye Birdie” and ...

Charles Strouse, a Tony Award-winning composer whose Broadway hits “Bye Bye Birdie” and “Annie” and opening theme for the groundbreaking sitcom “All in the Family” became part of the American musical ...