“Annie” occupies a special place in the heart of director David Janssen, who is directing his third Sioux Center Arts ...

When the curtain opens on the Te Paske Theatre stage in Sioux Center early next month, the lights will illuminate an iconic ...

Award-winning composer and songwriter Charles Strouse has died. He was 96. Strouse, an Emmy and Tony winner and a member of the American Theater Hall of Fame, is best known for writing the music to ...

In a career that spanned more than 50 years, Strouse wrote more than a dozen Broadway musicals, as well as film scores and sitcom theme songs.

Broadway composer Charles Strouse, creator of the hit musicals Bye Bye Birdie, Applause and Annie, died at his home in New York City on Thursday.

Chronicling the Depression-era adventures of the celebrated comic strip character Little Orphan Annie, the musical featured lyrics by ... and “The Night They Raided Minsky’s” (1968). One of Strouse ...

The final panels of the comic strip had Annie ... the artist who came up with the cartoon idea for the newspaper comic strip "Little Orphan Annie" in 1924, was from Kankakee.

That’s because the musical, based on the “Little Orphan Annie” comic strip that debuted in 1924 ... classic Broadway choreography. “Annie” last played the Lied Center in 2017.

About a century ago, a comic strip called “Little Orphan Annie” began its decades-long run in newspapers. It was followed by radio programs, movies, and eventually a massively successful ...

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.

stars as Little Orphan Annie. The role is a reprisal for the young actor: She has portrayed Annie more than 230 times in a national tour of the show. Based on the popular comic strip, the musical ...