The run closed January 2, 1983
- Opened
- April 21, 1977
- Closed
- January 2, 1983
- Performances
- 2,377
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Neil Simon Theatre
Of the 589 productions we hold that opened in the 1970s and record a performance count, this is the 5th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Annie 4 more that season
| 1978 | Victoria Palace Theatre Transfer | |
| 1997 | Martin Beck Theatre Revival · Peter Gennaro | 239 perf. |
| 2012 | Palace Theatre Revival · James Lapine | 487 perf. |
| 2017 | Piccadilly Theatre Transfer |
Who was in it93 named
Diana Barrows
Robyn Finn
Donna Graham
Janine Ruane
Steven Boockvor
Edwin Bordo
Donald Craig
Richard Ensslen
Bob Freschi
James Hosbein
Mari Mcminn
Sandy
Penny Worth
Allison Smith
Dolores Wilson
Jennine Babo
Tiffany Blake
Kathryn Boule
Stacey Lynn Brass
Randall Ann Brooks
David Brummel
Martha Byrne
Penny Marie Chaney
Keene Curtis
Caroline Daly
John Deyle
Dick Ensslen
Kim Fedena
Jodi Ford
Gary Gendell
Chris Jamison
Timothy Jecko
Lynn Kearney
Kathy Jo Kelly
Tara Kennedy
Anne Kerry
R Martin Klein
Annie Mcgreevey
Beth Mcvey
Mary Bracken Phillips
Lola Powers
Harve Presnell
Rhodes Reason
Jane Robertson
Larry Ross
Rita Rudner
Marianne Sanazaro
Karen Schleifer
John Schuck
Dorothy Stanley
Donna Thomason
Jenn Thompson
Alfred Toigo
Ann Ungar
Henrietta Valor
Richard Walker
Roxanne Dundish
Sherry Dundish
Richard Sabellico
Guy Stroman
June Havoc
Alyson Kirk
Ruth Kobart
Janet Aldrich
Dorothy Andres
Laura Baker
Kia Goodwin
Susan Hartley
Hally Mcgehean
Lauren Mitchell
Nicole Nowicki
Becky Snyder
Julie Stevens
Stephanie Vine
Lynne Wintersteller
25 of these 93 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 68 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Characters6 roles recorded
Andrea McArdle Annie
Stratford Johns Oliver Warbucks
Dorothy Loudon Miss Hannigan
Judith Paris Grace Farrell
Kenneth Nelson Rooster Hannigan
Barbara Erwin Lily St. Regis
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- Martin Charnin
- Choreographer
- Peter Gennaro
- Orchestrations
- Philip J. Lang
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Tony Awards 7 from 10 nominations
| Best Musical | Won |
Around this production
Sandy, the dog, was rescued from a Connecticut animal shelter the day before he was scheduled to be euthanized. He became one of Broadway\'s biggest stars.
Yeah, and your Hot Spot and Mata Hari and Annie 2, too.
Speaker not recorded. More Opening Nights On Broadway Steven Suskin, p. 488- The show was quickly adopted by theatregoers who made it the third longest running musical of the 1970s. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 240
- Breaux, Marc Kiss Me, Kate, 141 Annie, 247 Brisebois, Danielle Annie, 247 Broadway Musicals Show By Show Green Stanley Green Kay 5th Ed Rev and Updated By, p. 353
- Annie moved in from the Alvin across the street for one month, followed by the campy musical Oh, Brother!, based on Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors, with the action transferred to the contemporary Middle East. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 220
- Simon's play Fools, with John Rubinstein, had a brief run in 1981, followed by Annie, which moved in from another theatre. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 229
- Andrea McArdle as Little Orphan Annie is menaced by Dorothy Loudon, as Janine Ruane and Robyn Finn look on in Annie (1977). At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 292
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No recording is held for Annie at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.