Annie is a charming classic musical at the Dolby Theatre through May 18th.  This touring production of Annie has a fantastic ...

The Broadway composer of Annie and Bye Bye Birdie died Thursday at 96. Tony Award-winning Broadway composer Charles Strouse ...

In an interview with the Tribune in 2011, Strouse was asked if he had any idea that the Broadway show would be such a hit.

He wrote some of the most enduring musical theater numbers of his era and earned three Tony Awards, a Grammy and an Emmy.

The prolific writer's work included musical standards like "Tomorrow," "Put On a Happy Face" and the theme song from the CBS ...

It opened in 1960 and, even though the New York Times panned it ... he won a Tony Award for best score, with Annie, based on the comic strip "Little Orphan Annie." He said the best-known song ...

Charles Strouse, the renowned composer behind dozens of beloved Broadway songs, has died aged 96.Strouse died at his New York ...

Strouse died at his New York City home on Thursday ... Thomas Meehan on the adaptation of Harold Gray’s comic strip, “Little Orphan Annie.” Annie (1977) would become his biggest success ...

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.

His opening theme for the groundbreaking sitcom “All in the Family” also became part of the American musical canon.