Annie
the musical
(Play
for students of Secondary Education - Adapted from 1982 movie by
Kalliopi Sotireli)
Scene
1 - Setting: An orphanage room with beds
Annie:
Maybe
far away or maybe real nearby
he
may be pouring her coffee,
she
may be straightening his tie…
Maybe
in a house all hidden by a hill
she’s
sitting playing piano,
he’s
sitting paying the bills.
Betcha
they’re young, betcha they’re smart,
bet
they collect things like ashtrays and art,
betcha
they’re good, why shouldn’t they be?
Their
one mistake was giving up me…
So
maybe now it’s time and maybe when I wake
they’ll
be there calling me baby… Maybe…
Molly: Annie!
Annie!
Annie:
It’s okay. Everything’s gonna be all right. There, there. It was
only a dream, Molly. It’s all right.
Pepper:
Why do you treat her like a baby? And, how am I supposed to get any
sleep around here? (Gets
up and steps on girls’ heads and feet. They complain and get up
ready to attack her)
Annie:
It was only a dream. Everything’s all right.
Pepper:
Molly shouldn’t be in this room. She’s a baby. She cries all the
time. She wets the bed.
Molly: I
do not!
Duffy: (to
Pepper while attacking her on Sally’s bed)
You’re the one who shouldn’t be in here!
Sally: Stop!
We’re gonna get in trouble.
Nell: (also
attacks Pepper)
Go, Duffy! Go!
Tessie: Oh,
my goodness! Oh, my goodness!
Annie: Cut
it out! (tries
to stop them) I
mean it! Do you want Miss Hannigan to come in?
Go back to bed (Pepper
tries to intimidate her)
Now! Or you’ll have me to deal with.
Pepper:
Oh, buzz off!!!
Mary: Drop
it Pepper! Annie has spoken!
Annie: (goes
to Moly’s bed and hugs her)
Close your eyes. Think about your folks.
Molly: You’re
the only one who has folks. Mine are dead.
Annie: Think
of the folks who want to adopt you... because they want a little girl
with brown hair and
brown
eyes.
Betcha
he reads, betcha she sews,
Mary: maybe
she’s made me a closet of clothes.
Kate: Maybe
they’re strict as straight as a line…
Orphans: Don’t
really care as long as they’re mine…
Tessie: Oh,
my goodness.
Orphans: So
maybe now this prayer’s the last one of its kind…
Won’t
you please come get your baby?...
(Miss
Hannigan enters. They stop singing & cover up)
Miss
Hannigan:
Did I hear singing in here? All right. Fine. Since we’re all so
wide awake! (Uncovers
the girls
who have covered their heads). Get
up! Get out of bed! Clean up this mess! Get dressed! This room had
better be regulation before breakfast my little pig droppings. Or
kill, kill, kill!
Annie: But
it’s in the middle of the night.
Miss
Hannigan:
(mocking
Annie)
But it’s in the middle of the night… (grabs
Annie) And
if this floor don’t shine
like the top of the Chrysler Building… your backsides will.
Understand?
Orphans: (everyone
except for Annie)
Yes, Miss Hannigan.
Miss
Hannigan:
What do we say, Annie?
Annie: I
love you, Miss Hannigan.
Miss
Hannigan:
Why any kid would wanna be an orphan is beyond me.
(Annie
steps on her toes. Miss Hannigan leaves the room screaming)
Annie: It’s
the hard-knock life for us!
Orphans: It’s
the hard-knock life for us!
Instead
of treated we get tricked…
Instead
of kisses we get kicked,
it’s
the hard-knock life!
Kate: Got
no folks to speak of so,
Sally: it’s
the hard-knock row we hoe…
Orphans: Cotton
blankets instead of wool,
empty
bellies instead of full,
it’s
the hard-knock life!
Annie:
Don’t
it feel like the wind is always howling?
Duffy: Don’t
it seem like there’s never any light?
Kate: Once
a day, don’t you want to throw the towel in?
Orphans: It’s
easier than putting up a fight!
Nell: No
one’s there when your dreams at night get creepy…
Pepper: No
one cares if you grow or if you shrink
Tessie-Nell: No
one dries when your eyes get red and weepy,
Orphans: from
the crying you would think this place would sink! Oh, Ooohhh….
Empty
belly life,
rotten
smelly life,
full
of sorrow life,
no
tomorrow life…
Molly-Tessie: Santa
Claus we never see!
Annie: Santa
Claus, what’s that? Who’s he?
Nell: No
one cares for you a smidge
Mary: when
you’re in an orphanage!
Orphans: It’s
the hard-knock life!
It’s
the hard-knock life for us…
No
one cares for you a smidge
when
you’re in an orphanage!
It’s
the hard-knock life, it’s the hard-knock life,
It’s
the hard-knock life!
(Annie
gets in the laundry rail basket)
Annie: Cover
me up good.
Pepper: All
you ever do is run away.
Kate: How
far are you gonna go this time?
Tessie: Oh,
my goodness! Oh, my goodness!
Sally: She’ll
put you in the cellar.
Tessie: You’ll
get whipped again.
Pepper: You’re
gonna get us in trouble.
Molly: (starts
crying)
I will miss you!
Nell:
Molly, shut up!
Pepper: I’m
gonna tell.
Duffy: And
I’m gonna rearrange your teeth!
Sally: (Miss
Hannigan enters and whistles) If
she asks questions, I’ll stomp on her foot!
Miss
Hannigan:
What are you all just standing around here for? You’re supposed to
clean the bathroom and kitchen
before lunch, my little pig droppings. And if you skip the corners,
there will be no lunch. And… we’re not having hot mush today.
Orphans: Yeyyyy!!!
Miss
Hannigan:
(Whistles)
We’re having cold mush.
Orphans: Hewwwwwwwwww!!!
Yuuuuukk!
Miss
Hannigan:
What?
Orphans: We
love you, Miss Hannigan.
Miss
Hannigan:
Wonderful. Where’s Annie?
July: She
had to go bathroom.
Miss
Hannigan:
(mocking
July) She
had to go bathroom... (Mr
Bundles is calling from outside)
Mr.
Bundles: Miss
Hannigaaan!
Miss
Hannigan:
Mr. Bundles.
Orphans: Mr.
Bundles.
Miss
Hannigan:
(Mr.
Bundles enters)
Yoohoooo… Hello Mr. Bundles… My Italian laundryman!
Mr.
Bundles: Miss
Hannigan not today. I’m behind… my schedule, I mean.
Miss
Hannigan:
What are schedules in the storms of passion, Mr. Bundles? (tries
to kiss him)
Mr.
Bundles:
Miss Hannigan, please! (escapes
her, grabs the basket with Annie inside the sheets)
It’s heavy today. It’s a lot heavier than usual.
Miss
Hannigan:
It shouldn’t be. What’s in there? (the
orphans signal him. He understands)
Mr.
Bundles: Miss
Hannigan.
Miss
Hannigan:
Yes, Mr. Bundles?
Mr.
Bundles: You’re
my kind of woman.
(Starts
singing and flirting. Turns her away and dances with her till the
orphans take the basket out)
Oh,
your sweet face, my brightest sun! O
sole mio, the earth may stun! O
sole, O sole mio
The
earth may stun! My brightest sun!
Till
next month, Miss Hannigan. (pushes
her back)
Miss
Hannigan:
I’ll be right here. (Mr.
Bundles goes out. Everyone leaves the stage.)
Scene
2 - Setting: a street
Annie: (from
inside the basket) Mr.
Bundles, I’m in here. (He
helps her out) Thank
you, Mr. Bundles.
Mr.
Bundles: Good
luck, Annie.
(Annie
walks on her own. A policeman starts following her. She walks faster
and he chases her. Annie gets off stage down the stairs and he goes
after her. She goes back up on stage on the other side. He can’t
find her and leaves through the aisle. Annie finds two boys chasing a
dog. She runs after them.)
Boy
1: Get
his tail!
Annie:
Poor dog. Leave him alone. What’s he ever done to you? (tries
to save the dog)
Boy
2: (pushing
her away)
Get lost! (She
stalls, then punches his face)
Annie: (to
the other boy) All
right, are you next?
Boy
1: Of
course! This is a man’s job! (he
also gets punched)
Annie: Want
some more?
Boy
2: Oh
man… That hurt!
Annie: Then
get lost.
Boy
1: (to
the other boy) Shake
a leg! Come on! Let’s hotfoot it! (they
leave)
Annie: (to
the dog) Hey,
you’re all right. (the
dog licks her) I
didn’t do anything a decent person
wouldn’t have done. Bye now…
(he
follows) Hey…
stop coming after me! (she
runs away but sees
the dog catcher ready to get the dog) Hey,
miss, that’s my dog!
Dog
catcher: Oh,
yeah? Where’s his license? Where’s his leash? He’s no more your
dog than I am
your mother.
Annie: I
left his license at home. Please don’t take him to the pound. My
father’s blind. This dog
leads him to work. If he doesn’t work,
we’ll starve.
Dog
catcher: Is
that so… What’s his name?
Annie: My
father’s name?
Dog
catcher: The
dog’s name.
Annie: Oh,
the dog’s name! (thinks
about it for a while) His
name’s Sandy. That’s it. Sandy.
Dog
catcher: Call
him.
Annie: Call
him?
Dog
catcher: Yeah…
call him! Go over there and call him.
Annie: You
mean by his name?
Dog
catcher: By
his name. The dog’s name.
Annie: Sandy!
Come here, Sandy. (the
dog doesn’t respond. She tries again) Sandy!
Come here…Come
here, Sandy. (the
dog goes)
Ohhh…
Come
here! Good old Sandy!
Dog
catcher: You’ve
got yourself a dog. Get him a collar and a leash.
Annie: Yes,
mam!!!
(Annie
pats the dog happily when the policeman grabs her ear and pulls her
up. He takes her to Miss Hannigan. Pepper opens the door.)
Pepper: Miss
Hannigan! Miss Hannigan!
Miss
Hannigan:
(comes
out dizzy and upset) What?
(in
an angry tone) Annie!
Policeman: Look
what I found under a paving stone.
Miss
Hannigan:
(realizes
that the policeman is there and changes her tone) Oh,
Annie! Annie, my little peach
fuzz, are you all right? I was worried sick.
Policeman: I
knew you would be. A big-hearted woman like you.
Miss
Hannigan:
How can I ever thank you... enough? (she
flirts with him)
Policeman: I’m
sure we can think of something if we get our heads together. (they
approach their heads)
Pepper: Kissy,
kissy, kissy.
Miss
Hannigan:
Kill! Kill! (they
both go in and the policeman leaves)
Scene
3- Setting: An orphanage room with a desk and a closet
(The
orphans play with Sandy)
Tessie: Oh,
my goodness! Oh, my goodness! He smells.
Sally: What’s
his name, Annie?
Annie: Guess.
Molly: Fifi?
Pepper: That
ain’t a name for this mutt.
Kate: So
how about Champion
Nell: Champion,
you’re anything but!
Mary: We
could call him Tiger…
Duffy: But
there's no bite in him!
Pepper: Tiger!
Prrrr…
Kittens
would frighten him!
Sally: (loudly)
Rover!
When you think it over!
Tessie: Shhh!
Orphans: (except
for Annie) Rover
is the perfect name
for
this dumb-looking dog! Rover!
Annie: Sandy,
Sandy's his name if you please!
If
you don't believe me,
ask
any one of the fleas
residing
on Sandy
true
he ain't pedigreed,
Orphans: Sandy!
There ain't no better breed,
Moly-Mary: and
he really comes in handy,
Tessie-Kate: especially
when you're all alone in the night,
Nell: and
you're small and terribly frightened,
Orphans: it’s
Sandy, Sandy who’ll always be… there!
(They
hear Miss Hannigan and seem worried)
Nell: She’s
coming. She’s coming.
July: Oh
no… Poor dog! She will send him to the dog catcher!
Sally: Hide
him. (they
throw a sheet on Sandy)
Tessie: Oh,
my goodness! Oh, my goodness…
(Miss
Hannigan enters. Annie tries to hide the dog)
Annie: I
love you, Miss Hannigan.
Miss
Hannigan:
And you will love the paddle closet, Annie! And this… (uncovers
Sandy) will
love the sausage
factory.
Orphans: No,
Miss! / Please…. / Oh noooo!
Miss
Hannigan:
What?
Orphans: We
love you, Miss Hannigan.
Miss
Hannigan:
Shut up. Now, get lost! (they
all run away. Annie and Sandy too)
Not so fast Annie! You are
spending the day in the closet! (She
puts Annie and Sandy in the closet. The doorbell rings. Pepper opens
the door. Grace enters)
Grace: Miss
Hannigan, I’m Grace Farrell. The New York Board of Orphans sent me.
Miss
Hannigan:
My goodness, won’t you come in? (pushes
Pepper back when Grace doesn’t look) Right this
way. Well, welcome to our happy home. (the
orphans get in to see Grace)
Grace: Thank
you.
Miss
Hannigan:
(politely
to the girls while Grace is looking) Ladies!
(kicks
them out of the room when Grace
is no longer looking) And
your name was?
Grace: Grace
Farrell. I’m here to inquire about an orphan?...
Miss
Hannigan:
(upset)
Look,
Grace, I can explain the whole thing. What happened was the child
bribed Mr.
Bundles to smuggle her out of here. I should’ve called Mr.
Donatelli, but the truth is I just saw red, so I called the cops
instead. Anyway, she’s back, everything’s fine. All’s well that
ends well. No harm, no foul, my little scissors legs?
Grace: What
are you talking about?
Miss
Hannigan:
(changes
her tone of voice) Look
lady… Are you peddling beauty products? I don’t need beauty
products. If that’s what you’re doing, peddle yourself right out
of here.
Grace: I
am the private secretary to Oliver Warbucks.
Miss
Hannigan:
The Oliver Warbucks? Oliver Warbucks the millionaire?
Miss
Hannigan:
Holy Mary, Mother of God.
Grace: Mr.
Warbucks would like to invite an orphan to spend a week with him. I’m
here to select
one.
Miss
Hannigan:
(searching
her papers) That’s
just wonderful. What kind of orphan did he have in mind?
(Annie
takes her head out of the closet and signals Grace)
Grace: Well...
friendly. (Annie
smirks)
Intelligent…
Annie: (whispering)
M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I.
Grace: …
and happy…
Annie: (loudly)
Hahahahaha!
Miss
Hannigan:
(closes
the door slightly) How
old?
Grace: Well,
age doesn’t really matter. (looks
at Annie who sticks her head out and makes gestures)
Eight…
Nine… Ten… Eleven? Yes, eleven is just fine.
Miss
Hannigan:
Eleven? (Annie
shows her hair color)
Grace: I’m
sorry, I almost forgot. Mr. Warbucks prefers red hair.
Miss
Hannigan:
An eleven-year-old redhead? Nope. Sorry, ain’t got it.
Grace: (takes
Annie out of the closet) What
about this child?
Miss
Hannigan:
Annie?
Grace: Yes.
Miss
Hannigan:
You don’t want Annie.
Grace: Why
not?
Miss
Hannigan:
She’s... She’s a drunk.
Grace: Oh...
hilarious… Annie, how would you like to spend a week with Mr.
Warbucks at his
house?
Annie: Oh,
boy! I would love to. I would really, really love to.
Miss
Hannigan:
Wait! Slow down! Hold on there! You can have any orphan in the whole
orphanage except Annie.
Grace: Why?
Miss
Hannigan:
She’s got it coming to her and I don’t mean a week of luxury.
She’s got to learn to know her
place.
Grace: Her
place?
Miss
Hannigan:
Annie is entirely too cheeky.
Grace: Mr.
Warbucks likes cheeky orphans.
Miss
Hannigan:
Tough!
Grace: I
assume your resistance has to do with Mr. Donatelli and the Board of
Orphans.
Miss
Hannigan:
Don’t assume nothing, sweetheart.
Grace: Mr.
Warbucks knows Mr. Donatelli.
Miss
Hannigan:
Is that a fact?
Grace: Yes,
it is. It’s also a fact that he said how many people he had lined
up for your job.
Miss
Hannigan:
Is that a fact?
Grace: Yes.
It’s awful to be out of work, isn’t it, Miss Hannigan?
Miss
Hannigan:
Just terrible.
Annie: Leaping
lizards!
Miss
Hannigan:
(sarcastically)
Leaping
lizards.
Grace: The
limousine is waiting.
Annie: (Annie
stalls) My
dog.
Grace: What?
Annie: Here,
Sandy. Come here. He’s really nice. Really good.
Grace: He’s
a very sweet dog, but really, I don’t think Mr. Warbucks…
Annie: (sad)
Then
I’m not coming.
Grace: What?
Annie: She’s
going to send him to the sausage factory. She said so herself.
Miss
Hannigan:
I’m not zoned for dogs.
Grace: We’ll
take the dog.
Annie: Oh,
boy!
Orphans: Bye,
Annie!
Annie: I’ll
be back. I’ll bring everybody presents. Bye, Molly. See you soon.
Bye, Pepper. Bye,
Duffy.
Orphans: Bye!
/ We’ll miss you! / See you in a week!
Scene
4- Setting: Mr. Warbucks’s house
(The
staff is in place. They look surprised. Moreover, a photographer is
there and takes pictures all the time)
Annie: Is
this a train station? Are we going on a train?
Grace: No,
this is Mr. Warbucks’ house.
Annie: Leaping
lizards.
Grace: This
is Punjab. He and the Asp, here, are Mr. Warbucks’ bodyguards. Come
along. Let’s get
you settled.
The
Asp: Nice
to meet you, young lady!
Miss
Drake: (sneezes)
Been
to the zoo, Miss Farrell?
Grace: Not
recently, Miss Drake. I need an update, please!
Mrs.
Pugh: The
organ has been tuned perfectly. Music to my ears!
Grace: Mrs.
Greer?
Mrs.
Greer: The
pool has been heated… medium warm… Plus, hor d’ oeuvres are in
place!
Grace: Perfect!
Miss Drake?
Miss
Drake: The
tennis net is up. The uniforms all set for the next game.
Grace: Thank
you. French doors fixed?
Mrs.
Pugh: Yes.
And the elevator is oiled. Oh… its mirror was also replaced as
ordered.
Grace: Good!
Typewriter repaired?
Miss
Drake: Yes!
Mrs.
Greer: And
the second teletype installed.
Grace: (Miss
Drake sneezes again)
Are
you allergic to dogs, Miss Drake?
Miss
Drake: No…
filth!
Grace: Is
dinner under way, Mrs. Pugh?
Mrs.
Pugh: Yes,
Miss Farrell. I’m preparing his favorite. Texas grapefruit,
Virginia ham, Idaho
potatoes, Wisconsin cheese, Washington apples and
baked Alaska.
Grace: Great!
I have an announcement to make, everybody. This is Annie, and she’ll
be staying with
us for a week.
Mrs.
Greer: Welcome
Annie!
Grace: This
is her dog, Sandy.
Annie: He’ll
be staying with me.
Mrs.
Greer: May
I take your sweater, miss?
Annie: Will
I get it back?
Mrs.
Greer:
Of course, miss!
Grace: What
would you like to do first?
Annie: (looks
around) The
windows… then the floors… that way if I drip…
Grace: You
don’t understand. You don’t have to do any cleaning here.
Annie: I
won’t? How am I gonna earn my keep?
Grace: You’re
our guest, Annie.
Ms.
Pugh will pick out all your clothes.
Mrs.
Pugh: Blue
is her best color. No, red, I think.
Grace: Your
bath is drawn by Mrs. Greer.
Mrs.
Greer: Soap.
No, bubbles, I think.
Grace: Miss
Drake comes in to make your bed!
Miss
Drake: The
silk? No, the satin sheets, I think.
Annie: I
think I’m gonna like it here!!!
Grace: The
swimming pool is down the stairs…
Annie: Inside
the house? Oh, boy!
Grace: The
tennis court is in the rear…
Annie: I
never even picked up a racket.
Grace: What?
Have
an instructor here at noon!
Miss
Drake: Certainly
ma’am!
Annie: I
think I’m gonna like it here!
Mrs.
Pugh: When
you wake, ring Miss Drake… She will bring your tray.
Miss
Drake: When
you’re through Mrs. Pugh comes to take it away!
Mrs.
Greer: No
need to pick up any toys.
Annie: That’s
okay, I haven’t got any anyway.
Grace: No
finger will you lift, my dear!
Staff: We
have but one request, please put us to the test!
Annie: I
know I’m gonna like it here!
Used
to room in a tomb
where
I’d sit and freeze!
Get
me now, holy cow!
Could
someone pinch me, please?
(Mrs.
Greer pinches her) Ouch!
Miss
Drake: She
didn’t mean it!
Staff: We’ve
never had a little girl!
Annie: I’m
very glad to volunteer!
Grace: I’m
glad she’s glad to volunteer!
Staff: We
hope you understand,
your
wish is our command!
Annie: I
know I’m gonna like it here!
Staff: We
know you’re gonna like it here!
Welcome!
Grace: (Honk
of a car is heard. The personnel go to their posts) It’s
Mr. Warbucks. Don’t worry now
(to
Mr. Warbucks) Welcome
home, sir.
Mr.
Warbucks:
(entering)
Did
the painting arrive?
Grace: Here
it is, sir. (Miss
Drake and Mrs. Pugh show the Mona Lisa to Mr. Warbucks)
Mr.
Warbucks:
I don’t like it. Send it back. (the
women hold it back and start leaving) Any
messages?
Grace: President
Roosevelt called three times. He said it was urgent.
Mr.
Warbucks:
Everything’s urgent to a Democrat. What else? (looks
at painting again) Wait!
There’s something
interesting in that woman’s smile. I might learn to like her. Hang
her in my bathroom. No time for dinner tonight. Send out for an
American cheese sandwich. Come, let’s get started. (the
photographer keeps taking pictures and flashes on his face. Mr.
Warbucks pushes him back and throws his camera down. He is upset)
Aaahhh!
What on earth is going on here?
Grace: Ohhh!
This is the press representative.
(Meaningfully) Your
image.
Mr.
Warbucks:
Oh, yes. Pick him up, Punjab. Get him another camera.
Punjab: It’s
alright, sir. Let me help you.
Mr.
Warbucks:
Why do I smell… dog?
Annie: It
is Sandy, sir.
Mr.
Warbucks:
(showing
Annie) What’s
this?
Grace: This
is Annie, the orphan who will be staying with us.
Mr.
Warbucks:
What are you talking about?
Grace: They
wanted to take photographs of you sharing your home with an orphan.
Don’t you
remember, sir? It’s only for a week.
Mr.
Warbucks:
This doesn’t look like a boy! Orphans are boys.
Grace: Oh,
you didn’t say a boy, sir. You just said an orphan, so I got a
girl.
Mr.
Warbucks:
I want a boy!
Annie: I’ve
got an interesting smile too, sir. Don’t you think, maybe, you
could learn to like me too,
sir? Hang me in the bathroom?
Mr.
Warbucks:
Take them back now.
Grace: Sir,
she just got here.
Annie: That’s
okay, Miss Farrell. We’ll be okay. It was nice meeting you anyhow.
I sure do like your
place.
Mr.
Warbucks:
Thank you, Annette.
Annie: Annie.
I’ve had a swell time. I’ve already had enough fun to last me for
years. It’s a really
swell idea to have an orphan for a week. A
really terrific idea. Even if it is only for your image, even
if I’m
not the orphan... I’m glad you’re doing it.
Mr.
Warbucks:
I’m glad you approve. Let’s get to work!
Grace: Are
you sure you needed a boy, sir? Couldn’t she stay? It’s only for
a week!
Mr.
Warbucks:
Whatever, but just for the week. (Grace
signals Annie happily. They both smirk)
Scene
5- Setting: An orphanage room
(The
orphans are all around Miss Hannigan. She tries to get rid of them.
When they leave, she starts singing)
Miss
Hannigan:
(screaming)
Get
awaaaaay! (During
the song, girls appear making fun of her. She drinks)
Little
girls, little girls
everywhere
I turn
I
can see them!
Little
girls, little girls
night
and day
I
eat, sleep and breathe them!
I’m
an ordinary woman
with
feelings!
I’d
like a man to nibble on my ear
but
I’ll admit, no man has bit,
so
how come I’m the mother of the year?
How
I hate little shoes, little socks
and
each little bloomer…
I’d
have cracked years ago
if
it weren’t for my sense of humor!
Some
women are dripping with diamonds!
Some
women are dripping with pearls!
Lucky
me, lucky me look at what I’m dripping with…
little
girls! (the
girls come in and make fun of her. She sends them away)
Little
cheeks, little teeth,
everything
around me is little!
If
I wring little necks, surely I would get an acquittal!
Someday
I’ll step on their freckles,
some
night I’ll straighten their curls,
send
a flood, send the flu, anything that you can do
(she
notices the girls and kicks them away)
to
little, little, little, little, little, little…little
girls!
Someday
I’ll end in the nuthouse
(Rooster
and Lily sneak into the room)
with
all the nuts and the squirrels!
There
I’ll stay, tucked away till the prohibition of…
little
girls!
Rooster:
(crows
like a rooster)
Kikerikiiii!!!!!
Miss
Hannigan:
(surprised and scared) Rooster!
Rooster: Sis.
Miss
Hannigan:
You’re supposed to be in jail.
Rooster: They
let me out early.
Lily: For
good behavior.
Rooster: I
want you to meet a friend of mine. Lily Saint Regis.
Lily: Named
from the hotel.
Miss
Hannigan:
Room service.
Rooster: This
afternoon, I put ten bucks on the nose of a beautiful horse at eight
to one. Sure enough, the scum-bum took off and whipped the pack.
Miss
Hannigan:
No kidding?
Rooster: The
thing is, I got delayed and… the cashier closed and I didn’t have
time to cash in.
Eighty bucks, sis, first thing in the morning,
guaranteed. All I need is five to tide me over.
Miss
Hannigan:
Not even a nickel for the subway.
Rooster: Come
on, sis.
Miss
Hannigan:
I bet Miss Sticky-Fingers here can loan you a lousy five bucks.
(She
turns to Lily. In the meantime, Rooster steals her money from her
purse)
Lily: I
beg your pardon, I’m sure. But I don’t stoop to what you’re
incinerating.
Miss
Hannigan:
Give me back my goods, lady. (pulls
necklaces out of Lilly’s blouse) Okay,
Rooster. If
I loan you 5 bucks, will you take this dumb hotel out of here?
Rooster: I’m
sorry, sis. Lily. Not even a nickel for the subway.
Lily: You
and her have the same mother? (they
leave)
Miss
Hannigan:
(she
looks in her purse and realizes she has no money left) Rooster!
Scene
6- Setting: Mr. Warbucks’s house
(Annie
and Mr. Warbucks are on stage. Also the Asp and Punjab. The staff
randomly enters in a little while)
Annie: I
can’t believe it’s been almost a week! Mr. Warbucks… like my
new dress?
Mr.
Warbucks:
(working
and writing something down) What?
Oh, yes.
Annie: Miss
Farrell picked it out.
Mr.
Warbucks:
Never thought I’d get used to a girl.
Annie: Girls
are easier to get used to. Like Miss Farrell… She does all the work
around here and you
don’t know her first name.
Mr.
Warbucks:
I do. It’s Grace.
Annie: She
thinks you’re the greatest thing since sliced bread was invented.
Mr.
Warbucks:
I beg your pardon.
Annie: I
know it’s none of my business, but you never notice anything.
Mr.
Warbucks:
(shakes
his head) Sliced
bread...
(Grace
enters. She has her hair down and wears a fancy dress. She sees Annie
distracting Mr. Warbucks)
Grace: Oh,
here you are! I am sorry, sir. Annie, Mrs. Greer is waiting for you
in the swimming pool.
Along with a brand-new swim suit!
Annie: Swell!
See you later Mr. Warbucks!
(Grace
walks her out. Annie notices her hair)
Annie: You
should leave your hair down more often. It is very beautiful!
Grace: No,
I couldn’t.
Annie: Miss
Hannigan says a man doesn’t look at your brains.
Grace: Oh,
really? My goodness! Off you go now! (Annie
leaves. Grace approaches Mr. Warbucks)
Sir,
I really wanted to thank you for yesterday night! It meant a lot to
Annie that you came with us to
the movies.
Mr.
Warbucks:
Well, I had fun too. I’ve been meaning to ask you… How did you
learn what you did yesterday?
Grace: Learn
what?
Mr.
Warbucks:
You put her to bed.
Grace: You
put her to bed too.
Mr.
Warbucks:
I did?
Grace: Yes,
you did.
Mr.
Warbucks:
Good heavens. Well, it was a wonderful evening.
Grace: Glad
you thought so, sir… Sir, about Annie.
Mr.
Warbucks:
What about Annie?
Grace: Could
we keep her? You haven’t seen that horrible orphanage. I can’t
bear to send her back there.
Mr.
Warbucks:
(surprised)
Get
a hold of yourself. What’s come over you?
Grace: She
wouldn’t be a bother. I’ll take care of her. The staff adores
her. And you have plenty of room here. We could take her on as…
like… as your ward.
Mr.
Warbucks:
Absolutely not. I love money. I love power. I do not now, nor ever
will, love children!!!
Grace: (sad
and sceptical) Watching
you with her last night, I thought maybe... (she
walks slowly
away)
Mr.
Warbucks:
Grace… Wait! (he
holds her hand and pulls her back)
I just noticed something. You’re awfully
pretty when you argue with me.
Grace: Thank
you, sir.
Mr.
Warbucks:
Oliver.
Grace: (she
smirks) Do
you really just love money, power and capitalism? They’ll never
love you
back.
Mr.
Warbucks:
Your teeth are crooked.
Grace: I’ll
have them fixed.
Mr.
Warbucks:
I like them crooked.
Grace: I’ll
leave them.
Mr.
Warbucks:
Thank you.
Grace: I
could have the papers signed this morning.
Mr.
Warbucks:
Grace…
Grace: Oliver…
Mr.
Warbucks:
It means a great deal to you.
Grace: Yes,
it means a great deal to me.
Mr.
Warbucks:
Then I’ll do it myself.
Grace: (excited)
I
could just kiss you! (realizes
what she just said and shies away from looking at
him)
Mr.
Warbucks:
(he
calls her) Grace,
get her a little gift.
Grace: That’s
a good idea.
Mr.
Warbucks:
Something from Tiffany’s. A new locket.
Grace: Oh…
Oh and you… You be careful when you go to that orphanage. That
woman’s got claws
and fangs.
Mr.
Warbucks:
Hahaha… (He
leaves. Grace is excited and spreads the news to the staff)
Grace: We
got Annie.
The
Asp: We’ve
got Annie?
Grace: Yeah!
She’s
like a shine on your shoes
or
hearing a blues that’s great!
Makes
you relax like a big tax rebate!
We
got Annie!
Staff: We
got Annie!
Mrs.
Pugh: She’s
like a cab in the rain,
candy
that melts in mouth!
Makes
you laugh all the way north to south!
Grace: We
got Annie!
Punjab: We
got Annie!
Staff: We
got Annie!!!
Scene
7- Setting: An orphanage room
Orphans: (Marching
around. Molly and Duffy are not walking in line. Duffy is holding
something)
It’s
a hard-knock life for us… It’s a hard-knock life for us… No one
cares for you a smidge… when
you’re in an orphanage.
Miss
Hannigan:
(to
Molly and Duffy) What
are you doing? Why aren’t you marching in line with the rest of them?
Duffy, come here. Come on. You’re hiding something from Miss
Hannigan behind your back.
Duffy: No.
Miss
Hannigan:
Let me have it. (Duffy
gets a mouse out and puts it in her robe. She screams) Get
inside!
(The
orphans flee. The doorbell rings and Mr. Warbucks enters)
Mr.
Warbucks:
Hannigan, I presume?
Miss
Hannigan:
Yes. (flirty)
Mr.
Warbucks… I saw your picture in the newspaper the other day…
Mr.
Warbucks:
I want to talk to you about Annie.
Miss
Hannigan:
You want to return her and forget it or trade up?
Mr.
Warbucks:
I want to adopt her.
Miss
Hannigan:
Would you excuse me for a moment? (turns
her back, hides under a scarf and screams. She
then goes back to Mr. Warbucks) You
were saying…?
Mr.
Warbucks:
Miss Hannigan… (Miss
Hannigan interrupts him before he manages to speak)
Miss
Hannigan:
(she
flirts with him) Mr.
Warbucks, for a Republican, you are sinfully handsome.
Mr.
Warbucks:
Thank you.
Miss
Hannigan:
I go absolutely weak in the knees over men like you. (he
gives her his pen and papers. She looks
at the pen carefully). My
God, is that thing real?
Mr.
Warbucks:
Just sign the papers.
Miss
Hannigan:
Would you like to see the bedroom, my billiard ball?
Mr.
Warbucks:
Sign.
Miss
Hannigan:
I
make a very dry martini...
Mr.
Warbucks:
Right here.
Miss
Hannigan:
I
make a very smooth souffle…
Mr.
Warbucks:
Just your name.
Miss
Hannigan:
Don’t
be so mean, you mean o’ meanie.
Mr.
Warbucks:
Come, my dear.
Miss
Hannigan:
Let's
you and me make… Why shouldn't we make hay?
Mr.
Warbucks:
I have an appointment at one. Sign!
Miss
Hannigan:
I am not signing!
Mr.
Warbucks:
(takes
a file out) File
from my private eye… You
spend your evenings in the shanties…
Miss
Hannigan:
You had me followed?
Mr.
Warbucks:
Imbibing
quarts of bathtub gin…
Miss
Hannigan:
Bronchitis.
Mr.
Warbucks:
You
lock the orphans in the closet…
Miss
Hannigan:
They love it.
Mr.
Warbucks:
You
sell their Christmas souvenirs!
Miss
Hannigan:
Drink?
Mr.
Warbucks:
You
steal the funds you should deposit…
Miss
Hannigan:
(treats
him a drink) It’s
fresh.
Mr.
Warbucks:
You
make kids starve and you buy heavy drinks!
(she
tries to hug him)
Miss
Hannigan:
Must you upset me? Why don’t you pet me? You want a smoochie?
Mr.
Warbucks:
You are going to jail! Just sign! (with
a loud voice) Sign!
Miss
Hannigan:
Why didn’t you say so in the first place? Swine!!! (he
leaves)
Scene
8- Setting: Mr. Warbucks’s house
(Mr.
Warbucks is on stage. He seems troubled and anxious)
Mr.
Warbucks:
Women! Does it take this long to get to Tiffany’s and back? (Grace
enters)
Ah, here you are.
What took you so long?
Grace: Here.
I got it. (she
gives him the box and notices that he is nervous) Don’t
be nervous.
Mr.
Warbucks:
I’m not. (he
gives the box back to her) You
give it to her.
Grace: It
was your idea. (gives
him the box)
Mr.
Warbucks:
She likes you more than me. (gives
her the box)
Grace: Oliver,
will you pull yourself together! (gives
him the box. Annie enters)
Here you are! I’ll
leave you two alone.
leave you two alone.
Mr.
Warbucks:
I want to talk to you about something very serious.
Annie: You
don’t want me anymore.
Mr.
Warbucks:
On the contrary, I do. (hesitates)
Good
Lord! Can we have a man-to-man talk?
Annie: Sure.
Mr.
Warbucks:
What I’m proposing would involve a long-term agreement. Actually,
maybe you ought to know
more about me before you make up your mind.
Annie: Okay.
Mr.
Warbucks:
Well, I was born in Liverpool. My brother died of pneumonia because
we didn’t have money
for medicine. I decided then and there that one day I would be very
rich.
Annie: Good
idea.
Mr.
Warbucks:
America was the land of opportunity. I signed on a ship as cabin boy
when I was twelve. By
the time I was twenty-one, I had made my first million. In the next
10 years, I turned that into 100 million. In those days that was a
lot of money. I was ruthless. Making money was all I ever cared
about, up to now. (hesitates
again)
Well… recently it has occurred to me that no matter how many houses
I have… how much money… they all mean nothing unless I have
someone to share it with… I might as well be broke, without someone
to love and care about… Understand what I’m trying to say?
Annie: Sure...
(thinks
for a while) Kind
of.
Mr.
Warbucks:
Kind of?
Annie: I
guess not.
Mr.
Warbucks:
Damn! Oh, excuse me.
Annie: You’ve
given me so much already.
Mr.
Warbucks:
I have the papers. It’s official.
Annie: What
is? (he
takes the locket out of the box and gives it to her) It’s
so pretty but…
Mr.
Warbucks:
Let me put it on you.
Annie: No...
It’s a swell locket, but if it’s all the same, I’ll keep my old
one.
Mr.
Warbucks:
It isn’t all the same. Your old one’s broken. This one is
engraved. (reads
the inscription) “To
Annie. With love from Daddy Warbucks.”
Annie: (sad)
When
my folks left me at the orphanage 10 years ago, they left a note
saying they
would come back to get me. They kept the other half of this locket so I would know them when they
came. I’m going to find them someday and have a regular mother and father... like a regular kid! I
am! I don’t mean to hurt your feelings. You’ve been nicer to me than anyone. But I’ve been
dreaming of my folks for as long as I can remember. I’ve just got to find them.
would come back to get me. They kept the other half of this locket so I would know them when they
came. I’m going to find them someday and have a regular mother and father... like a regular kid! I
am! I don’t mean to hurt your feelings. You’ve been nicer to me than anyone. But I’ve been
dreaming of my folks for as long as I can remember. I’ve just got to find them.
Mr.
Warbucks:
And I’ll help you.
(he calls names and people appear and leave immediately) Grace,
get me the
president on the phone! Miss Drake, get me the chief of police! Asp,
call the Red Cross. Punjab get me Radio Station! And, Mrs. Pugh…
get me a drink!
Scene
9- Setting: Orphanage room
(The
orphans listen to the radio. Backstage, the voices of the radio
presenter and Annie are heard)
Radio
presenter:
So, Annie, as we come to the end of another program, we’ d like to
thank you!
Annie: Thank
you Mr. Healy!
Sally: It’s
Annie on the radio!
Pepper: Who
cares…
Molly: Shh…
Be quiet!
(Miss
Hannigan enters. She walks to the middle of the stage and when she
hears “fifty thousand dollars” she trips as though she is
fainting and walks back)
Radio
presenter:
…and remember all of you out there, Oliver Warbucks is offering
fifty thousand dollars to the
couple who can prove they are Annie’s parents.
Tessie: Fifty
thousand dollars?
Radio
presenter:
For all of you, our smiles family, this is Bert Healy saying...
“Smile, cause you are never fully
dressed without a smile!”
Pepper: (pushes
Duffy and turns radio off) Good
riddens!
Duffy: Why
did you do that?
Tessie: He
is my favorite!
Pepper: You
are a bunch of saps! Who cares if Annie is on the radio?
Sally: I
do!
Duffy: Me
too!
Sally: I
think it is fun to be on the radio!
Kate: (imitating
Healey)
Indeed it is… And as Bert Healy is saying…
Hey, hobo man!
Hey, Dapper Dan!
You both got your style
Hey, hobo man!
Hey, Dapper Dan!
You both got your style
Orphans: but,
brother, you’re never fully dressed
without a smile!
without a smile!
Duffy-Sally: Your
clothes may be Beau Brummelly!
They stand out a mile
They stand out a mile
Orphans: but,
brother, you’re never fully dressed
without a smile!
without a smile!
Pepper: (Pepper
gets in and pushes the others) Who
cares what they’re wearing
on Main Street or Savile Row!
on Main Street or Savile Row!
It’s
what you wear from ear to ear
and not from head to toe that matters!
and not from head to toe that matters!
Orphans: So,
senator, so, janitor,
so long for a while
remember you’re never fully dressed,
though you may wear your best,
you’re never fully dressed
without a smile, smile, smile
smile… without your smile! (Miss Hannigan enters again)
so long for a while
remember you’re never fully dressed,
though you may wear your best,
you’re never fully dressed
without a smile, smile, smile
smile… without your smile! (Miss Hannigan enters again)
Miss
Hannigan:
Do I hear happiness in here? (Tessie
steps on her toes. The orphans leave running. Miss Hannigan
screams in pain) They
never miss! Ahhh… fifty thousand dollars… fifty thousand dollars…
Ahhh! (leaves
stage screaming)
Scene
10- Setting: Mr. Warbucks’s house
(Grace
and Mr. Warbucks are on stage. The staff is around the stage doing
chores)
Grace: (pretends
to look out on the road) Thousands
of people are waiting outside all claiming to be
Annie’s parents! We can’t expose her to this. I interviewed eight hundred and sixty-five couples.
None of them knew about the locket.
Annie’s parents! We can’t expose her to this. I interviewed eight hundred and sixty-five couples.
None of them knew about the locket.
Mr.
Warbucks:
All these liars! I never realized how many dishonest people there are
in New York. No wonder
our world is falling apart!
(Annie
enters)
Annie: Any
good news yet? Have my parents come for me? Have they brought me a
brother or
sister?
sister?
Grace: Oh,
honey, no… unfortunately not… We haven’t found them.
Annie: (sad)
They’re
dead for sure… I guess… I’ve known that deep down for a long
time.
Mr.
Warbucks:
I’m not giving up yet! You shouldn’t give up either!
Annie: I
guess I didn’t want to be just another orphan. I wanted to be
special.
Mr.
Warbucks:
You are special! Never stop believing that… Is there anything we
can do to cheer you up?
Annie: Not
much really… Thanks anyway… There’s a song I used to sing in
the orphanage when I
was sad. It always cheered me up. I might as well try singing it… (the staff listens and comes closer)
The sun will come out tomorrow,
bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow, there ‘ll be sun!
Just thinking about tomorrow
clears away the cobwebs and the sorrow
till there’s none!
When I’m stuck with a day that’s gray and lonely
I just stick out my chin and grin and say (she starts smirking)
The sun ‘ll come out tomorrow
so you gotta hang on till tomorrow
come what may!
Tomorrow, tomorrow I love ya, tomorrow
you’re only a day away!
was sad. It always cheered me up. I might as well try singing it… (the staff listens and comes closer)
The sun will come out tomorrow,
bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow, there ‘ll be sun!
Just thinking about tomorrow
clears away the cobwebs and the sorrow
till there’s none!
When I’m stuck with a day that’s gray and lonely
I just stick out my chin and grin and say (she starts smirking)
The sun ‘ll come out tomorrow
so you gotta hang on till tomorrow
come what may!
Tomorrow, tomorrow I love ya, tomorrow
you’re only a day away!
Mr.
Warbucks:
Everyone sing!
Everyone: When
I’m stuck with a day that’s gray and lonely
I just stick out my chin and grin and say, ooohh…
The sun ‘ll come out tomorrow
so you gotta hang on till tomorrow
come what may!
Tomorrow, tomorrow I love ya, tomorrow
you’re only a day away!
I just stick out my chin and grin and say, ooohh…
The sun ‘ll come out tomorrow
so you gotta hang on till tomorrow
come what may!
Tomorrow, tomorrow I love ya, tomorrow
you’re only a day away!
Mr.
Warbucks:
Tomorrow it is then, Annie… Tomorrow it is!
Scene
11- Setting: Orphanage room
(Doorbell
rings. Rooster and Lily enter disguised)
Rooster: Excuse
me. Are you the lady who runs this establishment?
Miss
Hannigan:
Unfortunately…
Lily: Ten
years ago, we left our little baby girl on the front steps.
Rooster: We
were starving. There was a job, managing a hotel in Main, but only if
we had no children.
Miss
Hannigan:
Wrap it up. I’m busy… listening to the radio!
Lily: We
never meant to leave… our little Annie.
Miss
Hannigan:
(surprised)
Annie???
Rooster: Now
we have a hardware store in New Jersey. We can take care of her.
Lily: We’ve
always loved her.
Miss
Hannigan:
You’re Annie’s parents?
Lily: Our
place isn’t fancy but we call it a home… We live over the store.
Rooster: There’s
a yard out back.
Lily: And
we have chickens.
Rooster: And
a rooster. (takes
off his disguise and crows like a rooster) Kikiriki!
(Lily
takes off her disguise too)
Miss
Hannigan:
Rooster? My God! I never would have recognized you. (checks
around for orphans)
Rooster: Sis,
if we can fool you, we can fool ‘Big Bucks’.
Lily: Fifty
thousand smackers.
Miss
Hannigan:
Sssssssssshhhhhhhhhh! You are gonna be the death of me, Rooster!
Rooster: Oh,
come on sis… this is going to be the best bunco job ever. All we
need is details.
Lily: About
Annie. Specifics.
Miss
Hannigan:
(mocking)
… specifics…
(becomes
serious) What’s
in it for me?
Rooster: Money!
A three-way split of the fifty thousand dollars.
Miss
Hannigan:
I want half!
Lily: Heeeyyyyyyyyy!!!
Rooster: All
right, half!
Lily: Rooster!
(Molly,
Tessie and Kate enter the stage. They eavesdrop and hear what is
being said)
Rooster: All
right! Twenty-five grand for me and Lil, twenty-five grand for you.
Lily: Why
don’t we wait and see what she’s got! See if it’s worth
twenty-five grand.
Miss
Hannigan:
You want details? I’ve got details. I’ve got specifics on every
kid in this dump. It’s just a question
of finding the right box. Annie wears a locket around her neck. It’s
a broken locket.
She says her parents saved the other half to, some day, come and claim her with it. Years ago,
her parents were killed in a fire. The cops brought me all their junk. Well, my darling baby brother... if Annie’s parents can claim her with that locket, so can we.
She says her parents saved the other half to, some day, come and claim her with it. Years ago,
her parents were killed in a fire. The cops brought me all their junk. Well, my darling baby brother... if Annie’s parents can claim her with that locket, so can we.
Lily: Fifty
thousand smackers!
Rooster: The
kid… we’ll drop in the river.
(The
girls hear and get worried. While the adults look for the locket in
boxes, they speak slowly)
Tessie: They’re
going to do something bad to Annie!
Kate: They
will drop her in the river. Let’s tell the girls. We’ve gotta
warn Annie!!!
Molly: Oh,
my goodness! (they
leave)
Miss
Hannigan:
It’s in an envelope… a sealed envelope.
Rooster: It
ain’t fair how we scrounge for three or four bucks…
Miss
Hannigan:
…while
she gets Warbucks… the little brat.
Look in those!
Lily: It
ain’t fair this, here, life is driving me nuts…
Miss
Hannigan:
Make yourself useful!
Lily: …when
we get peanuts…
Miss
Hannigan:
…she’s
living fat!
Lily: Maybe
she holds the key that little lady
to getting more bucks…
to getting more bucks…
Rooster: Right!
…instead
of less.
Miss
Hannigan:
It’ll have her name on it.
Rooster: Maybe
we fix the game with something shady…
(Lily
holds a bracelet in one hand and looks at it. In her other hand she
has the sealed envelope. The other two see it)
Lily: Where
does that put us?
Rooster: (grabs
the envelope) Give
you one guess!!!
Miss
Hannigan:
Open it.
Lily: Hurry.
Rooster: (takes
the locket out of the envelope) Easy
Street!
Everybody: Easy
Street!
Lily: Better
get there soon…
Everyone: Yes,
sirree!
Yes,
sirree! Yes, sirree!
Miss
Hannigan:
Easy
Street!
Everyone: Easy
Street!
Rooster: Where
you sleep till noon…
Miss
Hannigan:
Easy
Street!
Everybody: Easy
Street!
Miss
Hannigan:
Annie
is the key!
Everyone: Yes,
sirree!
Yes,
sirree! Yes, sirree!
Easy Street! Easy Street!
That’s where we’re gonna be!!!!!!
Easy Street! Easy Street!
That’s where we’re gonna be!!!!!!
Miss
Hannigan:
Here is her birth certificate too…
Rooster: Let’s
go grab the bonus!
Lily: Fifty
thousand smackers. (they
leave)
(The
orphans enter. They play. A while afterwards Molly, Tessie and Kate
enter worried)
Kate: Duffy,
Sally! They’re going to do something to Annie!
Duffy: Who
is?
Tessie: Miss
Hannigan!
Sally: What?
Molly: Oh,
my goodness!
Sally: We
should go warn Mr. Warbucks!
Pepper: How
on earth are we going to find any house in New York?
Duffy: We
will! We gotta save Annie! She would never let anything bad happen to
us!
Kate: Oh…
Miss Hannigan will be so mad if she catches us.
July: So
what? Stop thinking about yourselves!
Tessie: We’ll
be in so much trouble!
Pepper: We’re
never going to make it.
Duffy: She
lives on the Fifth Avenue. Number one is just around the corner…
Pepper: Yeap…
and we’ve gotta go to nine hundred and eighty-seven…
Tessie: Oh
my goodness, oh my goodness…
Sally: Move
it, already! By the time we get there, Annie will be gone! (they
leave running)
Scene
12- Setting: Mr. Warbucks’s house
(Grace,
Rooster, Lily, the Asp and Punjab are on stage. Lily and Rooster lie
to Grace)
Lily: We
were starving. We needed the job…
Rooster: That’s
why we left our little girl…
Lily: Wrapped
in a newspaper...
Rooster: On
the steps of the orphanage…
(Mr.
Warbucks and Annie enter)
Mr.
Warbucks:
What’s this?
Grace: Mr.
Warbucks, this is Ralph and Shirley Mudge from Hoboken, New Jersey.
Lily: (pretentious)
Annie!
Ralph, look! She still has the locket. (she
takes the other half out and puts
it next to Annie’s half. She and Rooster look at each other emotionally) We finally found you!
it next to Annie’s half. She and Rooster look at each other emotionally) We finally found you!
Mr.
Warbucks:
I suppose you heard about the reward on the radio.
Rooster: Reward?
Lily: We
don’t have a radio.
Mr.
Warbucks:
In the paper?
Rooster: Paper?
What paper?
Grace: How
did you know Annie was here?
Rooster: That
kind lady at the orphanage told us.
Lily: I
have her birth certificate right here. I’ve kept it close to my
heart all of these years. (gives
it)
Mr.
Warbucks:
(takes
certificate and reads) Ann
Marie Mudge. October eighteenth, nineteen twenty-two.
Annie: (kind
of sad) I’ll
go pack.
Lily: Do
you want me to help, baby?
Annie: No,
thanks... Mom…
(Annie
and Grace leave. Mr. Warbucks writes the check and shows it to
Rooster and Lily. Rooster tries to take it but Mr. Warbucks holds it
back. Rooster eventually takes it)
Rooster: A
certified check! Oh, sir… We’re just so thrilled to have found
Annie. We don’t need
money.
money.
Mr.
Warbucks:
I’ll take it back.
Lily: (grabs
it) Of
course, we are poor people. It would help us a lot. We could buy her
milk, a warm
blanket.
blanket.
Mr.
Warbucks:
Put it in your pocket, Mrs. Mudge.
(Annie
and Grace enter. Annie hugs Grace and Mr. Warbucks. Rooster and Lily
take her. Annie sings from the stairs)
Annie: Betcha
my life is gonna be swell
looking at them it’s easy to tell…
And maybe I’ll forget how nice he was to me
and how I was almost his baby… (they leave, but not far away – they go in front of the audience. Annie goes back to Mr. Warbucks to hug him. Lily gets her back.)
looking at them it’s easy to tell…
And maybe I’ll forget how nice he was to me
and how I was almost his baby… (they leave, but not far away – they go in front of the audience. Annie goes back to Mr. Warbucks to hug him. Lily gets her back.)
Mr.
Warbucks:
It’ll
be fine nothing to fear!
She’ll be as happy as she was here…
Things have worked out much better than planned,
it makes you smile when fate takes a hand!
And I know I’ll forget how much she meant to me
and how she was almost my baby… Maybe! (he and Grace leave the stage)
She’ll be as happy as she was here…
Things have worked out much better than planned,
it makes you smile when fate takes a hand!
And I know I’ll forget how much she meant to me
and how she was almost my baby… Maybe! (he and Grace leave the stage)
(On
the left staircase Miss Hannigan is waiting. Some time lapses.)
Miss
Hannigan:
Did you get it?
Rooster: (showing
Lily) She
has it.
Miss
Hannigan:
Let me see it. (grabs
it) I’d
better keep it.
Lily: Over
my dead body.
Miss
Hannigan:
That’s the brightest thing I’ve ever heard you say.
Rooster: Ladies!
Ladies! (they
take off their disguise)
Annie: (looks
at Miss Hannigan and realizes what happens) Help,
Mr. Warbucks! Help!
Rooster: Shut
up, kid…
(Rooster closes her mouth and they leave through the left aisle.)
(The
orphans enter from the back door on the right aisle.)
Duffy: We’ve
been walking for 100 years!
Pepper: We’re
never going to get there.
Tessie: But
we have to.
Sally: Hey,
look! That’s it! That’s the house!
Kate: Nine
hundred and eighty-seven! Thank God!
(They
go up the stairs and find the Asp. They all ask for help at the same
time)
Orphans: Sir,
please help us / We are desperate / We need your help / Please, sir /
Is Annie gone?
The
Asp: Quiet
down, girls. You want to see Mr. Warbucks?
Tessie: Yes.
Please… we are in a hurry!
The
Asp: All
right, wait here.
(Warbucks
enters. He notices the girls)
Mr.
Warbucks:
What now?
Sally: Sir…
Kate: I
think he’s a highness…
Sally: Your
Highness… We’re friends of Annie’s.
Mr.
Warbucks:
Annie’s gone.
Orphans: Oh
no…
Mr.
Warbucks:
Her parents took her away.
Duffy: But
they weren’t her parents.
Molly: They
were bad people.
Mr.
Warbucks:
Leaping lizards! (picks
up the phone)
Chief of Police? Warbucks here. Orphan Annie has been
kidnapped. I want every G-man on this in the next 20 minutes. (they
all leave)
(Rooster,
Lily, Miss Hannigan and Annie come in through the back-right door.
They go to the stairs)
Annie: I’ve
really got to go to the bathroom, Miss Hannigan. I mean it. When
you’ve got to go,
you’ve got to go.
you’ve got to go.
Miss
Hannigan:
Make it fast. (Annie
grabs check) Rooster,
grab her! She’s got the check! (Annie
tears it)
Rooster: Come
back here, you, lousy kid! I’ll kill you. (He
chases her)
Miss
Hannigan:
Rooster! Rooster, stop! Rooster, she’s a baby. Come back here.
(The
police and everyone else arrive. The policeman, Punjab and the Asp
attack and capture the felons. Mr. Warbucks and Grace hug Annie and
kiss each other)
Scene
13- Setting: Mr. Warbucks’s house
(The
staff and the orphans are on stage all dressed up for a party)
Miss
Drake: Thank
God all this is over! Our little Annie will stay with us!
Unbelievable!
Mrs.
Pugh: I
got her favorite menu all set up for tonight! It’s gonna be a
memorable party!
Mrs.
Greer: Indeed!
Annie’s adoption and… the engagement of Mr. Warbucks and Miss
Farrel!
Mrs.
Pugh:
Come on girls! The party is about to begin!
Mrs.
Greer:
Here, I see them coming.
Miss
Drake: Oh,
I am so excited!
(The
orphans are excited. everyone claps as Grace, Mr. Warbucks and Annie
enter and sing)
Annie: Together
at last, together forever!
Grace: We’re
tying a knot they never can sever!
Annie: I
don’t need sunshine now
to turn my skies to blue…
to turn my skies to blue…
A-G-W: I
don’t need anything but you!
Mr.
Warbucks:
You’ve
wrapped me around that cute little finger…
Grace: You’ve
made life a song, you’ve made me the singer
A-G-W: I
don’t need sunshine now
to turn my skies to blue…
I don’t need anything but you!
to turn my skies to blue…
I don’t need anything but you!
Annie: Yesterday
was plain awful…
Mr.
Warbucks:
You
can say that again!
Annie: Yesterday
was plain awful
A-G-W: But
that’s not now! That’s then!
Annie: I’m
poor as a mouse…
Mr.
Warbucks:
I’m
richer than Midas…
A-W: But
nothing on earth could ever divide us!
And if tomorrow I’m an apple seller too…
I don’t need anything but you!
And if tomorrow I’m an apple seller too…
I don’t need anything but you!
(Mr.
Warbucks puts the new locket on Annie. She reads the inscription)
Annie: “To
Annie. With love.” I love you, Daddy Warbucks. (she
hugs him)
Everyone: The
sun ‘ll come out tomorrow
so you gotta hang on till tomorrow
come what may!
Tomorrow, tomorrow
I love ya, tomorrow
You’re only a day away
Tomorrow, tomorrow
I love ya, tomorrow
You’re only a day away!
so you gotta hang on till tomorrow
come what may!
Tomorrow, tomorrow
I love ya, tomorrow
You’re only a day away
Tomorrow, tomorrow
I love ya, tomorrow
You’re only a day away!
(Adaptation/addition of lines, lyrics and roles from 1982 movie ‘Annie’: Kalliopi Sotireli)
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