Based on "Little Orphan Annie" by Harold Gray; "Little Orphan Annie" used by permission of Chicago Tribune - New York News Syndicate, Inc. Leapin’ lizards! The popular comic strip heroine takes ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Broadway's original Annie, Andrea McArdle ...

You know his songs, from "It's the Hard Knock Life" to "Those Were the Days," the theme from All in the Family.

and Annie (1977) What she's said: "[I] watched Andrea [McArdle, the original Annie] and assumed I would never be in Annie," Parker shared. "I would certainly never play Annie, and I wouldn't be ...

He wrote some of the most enduring musical theater numbers of his era and earned three Tony Awards, a Grammy and an Emmy.