The musical Annie, that ran for almost six years on Boradway, setting a record for the Neil Simon Theatre, is based on the comic strip Little Orphan Annie, by Harold Gray - with music by Charles Strouse. It's based on a book by Thomas Meehan, lyrics by Martin Charnin.
An eleven year old Annie is part of an orphanage under charge of Miss Hanigan (Carol Burnett), who bullies over girl orphans ("It's the hard Knock Life"). And like all other orphans, these girls are in the constant hope that they would get to their parents some day ("Maybe"). Annie decides to set out on the endavour to go find her her parents - runs in to a friendly dog Sandy ("Tomorrow" ) and other people made homeless as a consequence of the Great Depression ("We'd like to thank ou Herbert Hoover"). But what came to be was that Annie was returned to the orphanage. Grace Farrell, Warbucks' assistant picks her to live in Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks' platial home for the Christmas holidays (" I think I'm going to like it over here").
An initial tension betwwn them soon leads to Annie and Daddy Warbucks coming to love each other (" You won't be an orphan for long"). Warbucks intends to adopt Annie, while she still believes it possible to get to her parents in future. So Warbucks offers a reward for the parents ("You're never fully dressed without a smile"). Miss Hannigan, Rooster and his girlfriend plot a scheme to pretend to be Annie's parents, and collect the reward ("easy street"). They do infact, and claim the prize. But it is soon found out that Annie's parents had died some time back, and Warbucks and Annie become a family ("I don't anything but you").
The film was released in 1982 as a part of the Columbia Pictures, with Albert Finney starring as Daddy Warbucks, Carol Burnett as Miss Hannigan, Ann Reinking as Grace Farrel, Tim Curry as Rooster, Bernadette Peters as Lily.