Annie the Broadway musical is a musical that was created based on a popular comic strip in the 1920s called “Little Orphan Annie”, created by Harold Gray. “Little Orphan Annie”, is about a little girl named Annie, her dog and her supporter Oliver “Daddy” Warbucks. In “Little Orphan Annie”, the story opens up in a lifeless orphanage where Annie is usually abused by her sarcastic older woman named Miss Asthma. In the comic strip a wealthy couple Mr. and Mrs. Warbucks brings Annie into their house on a trial basis but Mrs. Warbucks decides early on that she does not like Annie. Once “Daddy” Warbucks returns home from a business trip he ends up taking a strong liking to Annie and is constantly thinking of her as his daughter. The Broadway musical
