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"ANNIE" ~ Synopsis
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New York City during the Depression. Annie, an orphan determined to
find her parents, escapes from an orphanage, but is found and returned
just as Grace Farrell, secretary to wealthy Oliver Warbucks, is there on
her annual visit to choose a boy whom Warbucks can host for the
Christmas holidays. Miss Hannigan, the scurrilous orphanage head, is
furious when Annie charms Grace into choosing her, and more angry still
when Warbucks takes to the young girl. (Grace comes to tell a furious
Miss Hannigan that Annie will be staying a bit longer, bumping into
Hannigan's brother Rooster and his doxy Lily on her way out.) The
entrepeneur eventually becomes so taken with Annie that he wants to
adopt her - but to his surprise, she doesn't accept, for she still wants
to find her real parents. Warbucks loves her enough to offer a
fifty-thousand-dollar reward to anyone who can prove they're Annie's
real parents. That's when Rooster and Lily, fortified with information
about Annie that only Hannigan knows, decide to impersonate Annie's
parents. The ruse seems to work - until Rooster again bumps into Grace
and jogs her into remembering where she's seen him before. It's
discovered that Annie's parents died some time ago, so she and Warbucks
become father and daughter by curtain fall.
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