Annie Jr. at Aventura Arts & Cultural Center

The show “Annie”, which places Annie, Daddy Warbucks and Annie’s mutt, Sandy, in New York City in the midst of the Depression, opened on Broadway on April 21, 1977

As an infant, Annie had been abandoned on the front steps of the New York City Municipal Orphanage with a note from her parents promising to return for her someday. Life in the orphanage had been rough under the strict hand of Miss Hannigan, but Annie’s life was about to change. Billionaire Oliver Warbucks invites Annie to spend Holidays with him in his mansion, and together, they each discover new happiness. Warbucks soon decides he wants to adopt Annie, but when he learns about her dream of finding her parents and the secret of the half-locket she has treasured for so long, he sets his own feelings aside and orders an exhaustive search for Annie’s parents.