Martin Charnin

Annie, the beloved seven-time Tony Award-winning Broadway sensation, comes to life like never before in a live musical event starring Harry Connick, Jr., Nicole Scherzinger, Tituss Burgess, Megan Hilty and Taraji P. Henson, with newcomer Celina Smith in the title role of Annie. The iconic musical follows smart and spirited little orphan Annie, whose whole life changes when larger-than-life billionaire Daddy Warbucks takes her away from an orphanage run by the mean Miss Hannigan. One of Broadway's all-time biggest hits, the stage production features such popular songs as "Tomorrow" and "It's the Hard Knock Life," which are adored by generations of audiences around the world.

携帯電話会社のCEOでニューヨーク市長候補のスタックスは選挙キャンペーン中、車にはねられそうになった少女を助ける。彼女の名はアニー。4歳のときにレストランに置き去りにされ、現在は横暴なハニガンが営む施設で暮らしていた。スタックスはそんな彼女の境遇を選挙戦に利用しようと、彼女を引き取り、超高層ビルのペントハウスで一緒に暮らし始める。最初は反りが合わなかった2人だが、いつしか固い絆が芽生えていく。

Women who have played orphans in "Annie" are brought together in this documentary.

Things seem pretty bad for a young girl living a "hard-knock life" in an orphanage. Fed up with the dastardly Miss Hannigan, Annie escapes the run-down orphanage determined to find her mom and dad. It's an adventure that takes her from the cold, mean streets of New York to the warm, comforting arms of bighearted billionaire Oliver Warbucks - with plenty of mischief and music in between.

1930年代、大恐慌下のアメリカ。身寄りのない少女アニーは、児童養護施設に暮らしながら、いつか両親が迎えに来ることを信じていた。そんなある日、施設に大富豪ウォーバックスの秘書というグレースが現われる。ウォーバックスは、世間から金の亡者と批判されがちな悪いイメージを改善するため、週末に施設の子どもをひとり屋敷に招こうというのだ。グレースは、一目見るなり気に入ったアニーを招待客に選ぶ。

A musical tribute to brothers George and Ira Gershwin

A musical tribute to brothers George and Ira Gershwin

Dames at Sea is a musical with book and lyrics by George Haimsohn and Robin Miller and music by Jim Wise. The musical is a parody of large, flashy 1930s Busby Berkeley-style movie musicals in which a chorus girl, newly arrived off the bus from the Midwest to New York City, steps into a role on Broadway and becomes a star. It originally played Off-Off-Broadway in 1966 at the Caffe Cino and then played Off-Broadway, starring newcomer Bernadette Peters, beginning in 1968 for a successful run. The television version was broadcast on the Bell System Family Theater on NBC on November 15, 1971. The cast had extra chorus girls and boys, and there were full production numbers, turning into the very thing it was spoofing. Ann Miller was singled out for praise, especially when "she was allowed to tap out her brassy...temperamental star..."

Based on the semi-hit Broadway musical of 1968 starring Joel Grey, this TV version has been re-fashioned in significant ways. The premise here is that a small group of modern-day performers have gotten together in a rehearsal studio to celebrate George M. Cohan's life and work. Joel Grey and Bernadette Peters (also from the original cast) and the other cast members are apparently playing themselves, with Austin Pendleton serving as a stage manager/director.

A CBS television special, renowned for its legendary "Yma, Ava....Yma, Uta... Yma, Oona" sequence. Annie: the Women in the Life of a Man (1970), won Anne Bancroft her only Emmy for her portrayal of 14 different woman in 14 musical and comedy sketches. Bancroft's husband Mel Brooks contributed to the script and also appears onscreen.