Daddy Warbucks is in serious trouble. The egg-bald guardian of that ageless comic-strip carrot top, Little Orphan Annie, has been railroaded into a private insane asylum run by one Dr. Le Quaque.

The latest national tour of “Annie,” at the Shubert Theatre in New Haven through Sunday ... “Annie” that knows that “Little Orphan Annie” was a comic strip first, and that its young ...