Leapin' Lizards! The popular comic strip heroine takes centerstage in one of the world's best-loved musicals.

"Annie" is a spunky Depression-era orphan determined to find her parents, who abandoned her years ago on the doorstep of a New York City Orphanage run by the cruel, embittered Miss Hannigan. In adventure after fun-filled adventure, Annie foils Miss Hannigan's evil machinations, befriends President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and finds a new family and home in billionaire Oliver Warbucks, his personal secretary Grace Farrell and a lovable mutt named Sandy.

"Annie" has proven a sure-fire crowd-pleaser, as its record-breaking Broadway run, star-studded motion picture version, hit 20th anniversary Broadway revival and national tour, and countless productions around the globe each year attest.

The original production, inspired by Harold Gray's Little Orphan Annie" comic strip (which premiered on August 5, 1924 in the New York Daily News), began at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Connecticut, before moving to the Kennedy Center in Washington and opening on Broadway to immense success. Produced by illustrious film director Mike Nichols (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Graduate), the Broadway production ran for an astonishing 2,377 performances, making it the third-longest running musical of the '70s.