The “Annie” musical, with music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin, and a book by Thomas Meehan, premiered at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam in 1976. It opened on Broadway ...

That dialogue, of course, is filled with humor and sweetness in the spirit of the long-running comic strip “Little Orphan Annie” on which the musical is based. Harold Gray created the strip in ...