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.

Annie é uma jovem órfã que vive em um orfanato comandado com mão de ferro pela senhora Hannigan. Sua vida muda ao ser escolhida para passar alguns dias na mansão de um milionário político, onde acaba fazendo amizade com seus funcionários e sendo usada para fins eleitoreiros.

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

Adaptação feita para a TV de um musical da Broadway, filmado anteriormente em 1982 por John Huston, e baseado em quadrinhos de Harold Gray - com pequena participação da atriz Andrea McArdle, que interpretou Annie na Broadway. O centro das atenções é a órfã Annie, que vive em um orfanato comandado pela terrível Senhorita Hannigan. Annie não gosta do lugar e odeia a Senhorita Hannigan, assim, quando o famoso e excêntrico bilionário Oliver; Warbucks escolhe Annie para passar o Natal na mansão dele, ela comemora. O charmoso Warbucks pretende adotar Annie, mas ela reluta, por acreditar que seus pais um dia irão voltar. Querendo agradá-la, o bilionário oferece uma recompensa para quem encontrar os verdadeiros pais de Annie e a Senhorita Hannigan, vendo a possibilidade de ganhar dinheiro fácil, arma um esquema para que seu irmão Rooster e sua namorada Lily passem-se pelos pais perdidos de Annie.

Annie é uma órfã que sonha com uma nova vida longe do orfanato. Seu desejo se torna realidade quando ela é selecionada para passar alguns dias na casa de um milionário e ele a ajuda a procurar pelos pais.

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.