Surflight Theatre is opening its 2021 mainstage season on July 3 with a family favorite, “Annie.”
“Annie,” with music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin and a book by Thomas Meehan that relied on not only the long-running Harold Gray comic strip, but also an 1885 poem, “Little Orphant Annie” – that’s right, “Orphant” – and the effort to turn “Annie” into a Dickens-like show along the lines of “Oliver” opened on Broadway way back on April 21, 1977.
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