Annie Warbucks

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Original cast recording
Original cast recording

Annie Warbucks, a sequel to the 1977 Tony Award-winning hit Annie, is a musical with a book by Thomas Meehan, music by Charles Strouse, and lyrics by Martin Charnin. Developed in a workshop at the Goodspeed Opera House, the production opened - after numerous delays - on August 9, 1993 at the off-Broadway Variety Arts Theatre, where it ran for 200 performances. The cast included Harve Presnell, Donna McKechnie, and Kathryn Zaremba in the title role, under the direction of Charnin.

The show begins immediately after Annie ended, on Christmas morning in 1933, when Child Welfare Commissioner Harriet Doyle (replacing the original's Miss Hannigan as the villain of the piece) arrives on the scene to inform Daddy Warbucks he must marry within sixty days or else the child will be returned to the orphanage. Warbucks' whirlwind search for a fitting bride uncovers not only a plot by Doyle and her daughter to strip him of his fortune, but also his true feelings for his long-time assistant, Grace Farrell. A gaggle of cute little girls seeking parents and President Franklin D. Roosevelt return to take part in the shenanigans.

Despite a strongly positive review from the New York Times, the show - unlike its predecessor, which ran for 2377 performances - failed to attract an audience, although it has become a popular choice for high school, community theater, and summer stock productions.

Annie Warbucks was the second attempt at an Annie sequel. The first, entitled Annie 2: Miss Hannigan's Revenge, opened on December 22, 1989 at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. to universally dismal reviews. Extensive efforts to get it into shape for a Broadway opening failed, and the project was abandoned.

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  • Annie Just Ain't Annie Anymore
  • Above the Law
  • Changes
  • The Other Woman
  • That's the Kind of Woman
  • A Younger Man
  • But You Go On
  • I Got Me
  • Love
  • Somebody's Gotta Do Somethin'
  • Leave It to the Girls
  • All Dolled Up
  • It Would Have Been Wonderful
  • When You Smile
  • I Always Knew

New York Times review

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