When the Playbill Vault launched in December 2011, it included information on over 10,000 shows and 120,000 actors, creative teams and crew members who have worked or are currently working o…
After thirty-five years, one 1997 revival and thousands of school productions, Depression-era musical, Annie returns to Broadway. The family musical, starring Lilla Crawford in the title rol…
The sun came up yesterday. Just like Annie said it would. And then it went down and evening came. And then Annie opened.
Last night, November 8, the company of ANNIE celebrated their opening night with the Gypsy Robe ritual with the company's recipient- Merwin Foard. BroadwayWorld was on hand for the event an…
Annie, the new production of the Tony Award-winning musical, began previews October 3, 2012 and opened last night at the Palace Theatre Broadway at 47th Street. BroadwayWorld was there for a…
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In honor of the latest revival of "Annie" opened at the Palace Theater on Thursday night, we look back on the many actors that have taken on the musical's iconic roles onstage over the years…
Merwin Foard receives the Gypsy Robe on the Opening Night of ANNIE A peek at the opening-night tradition of the Gypsy Robe ceremony! On the opening night of a Broadway show, the chorus memb…
"Annie" first leaped from newspaper comics pages to the Broadway stage in 1977, not pretending to be anything but a cartoon come tunefully to life. Director James Lapine's new revival of the…
The bitch is back. OK, technically speaking “Sandy” in Annie is a boy dog but…you get the point. And with a spanking new Broadway revival — which opened last night…
Annie, the 1977 show that introduced generations of children to the tuneful optimism of traditional Broadway musicals, opened in a new production on Broadway Nov. 8 following previews from O…
Annie, the new production of the Tony Award-winning musical, began previews October 3, 2012 and opened last night at the Palace Theatre Broadway at 47th Street. BroadwayWorld was there for a…
When I was a little girl and not the kind Miss Hannigan sings about, I spent my afternoons dancing around the living room to my mothers tape as intape of Hard Knock Life while developing the…
Annie, the new production of the Tony Award-winning musical, began previews October 3, 2012 and opened last night at the Palace Theatre Broadway at 47th Street. BroadwayWorld was there for a…
There were two Sandys in town last week — there was the mongrel who attaches himself to Annie Warbucks in Annie  at the Palace and of course there was the hurricane that attacked Br…
Do critics think the sun has come up again with "Annie"?
No little orphan girl could wish for a more wonderful Daddy than Anthony Warlow . . . Read More
NYC could use a little TLC and this show fits that bill perfectly. It satisfies that little voice that says 987 Fifth Avenue, if it existed, would be a perfect place to live, and that hot a…
Yes, the sun will come up tomorrow, but it sure doesn’t shine as brightly in the new Broadway revival of Annie. James Lapine’s staging of this clockwork-perfect musical somehow m…
The timing seem ideal for a Broadway revival of "Annie,"  and director James Lapine is attempting a timely approach to this story of optimism triumphing in a bleak era. Lapine's "Anni…
Annie, the 1977 show that introduced generations of children to the tuneful optimism of traditional Broadway musicals, opened in a new production on Broadway Nov. 8 following previews from O…
On November 8, just a day after a snowstorm blanketed
You could not count me an "Annie" aficionado before I saw its third Broadway production, which has opened tonight. "Annie" to me conjured up nothing but "Tomorrow" sung badly by generations …