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Annie is a musical with music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin, and a book by Thomas Meehan. It is based on the 1924 comic strip Little Orphan Annie by Harold Gray (which in turn was inspired from the poem Little Orphant Annie by James Whitcomb Riley). The original Broadway production opened in 1977 and ran for nearly six years ...
Following this in 1966 was Strouse’s first comic-strip musical, It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s Superman, which was a disappointment despite three Tony® nominations. Four years later, Lauren Bacall took the lead in Applause, and Strouse and Adams had the smash hit they had been working for since Birdie.
Strouse's first Broadway credit came in 1960 with the musical "Bye Bye Birdie," which he co-wrote with lyricist Lee Adams. The show was a smash hit, running for over 600 performances and earning ...
For this show, Strouse won his first Tony Award in the category of best musical. [ 4 ] Strouse's next show was All American (1962), with a book by Mel Brooks and lyrics by Adams; it was not a success, closing after 80 performances, [ 5 ] but it produced the standard “ Once Upon a Time ” (recorded by Perry Como , Eddie Fisher , Al Martino , Tony Bennett , Frank Sinatra , and Bobby Darin ...
Annie Warbucks. Annie Warbucks is a musical with a book by Thomas Meehan, music by Charles Strouse, and lyrics by Martin Charnin. A sequel to the 1977 Tony Award -winning hit Annie, based on Harold Gray 's Little Orphan Annie comic strip, it begins immediately after Annie ends.
Seven years later Strouse, with Martin Charnin, turned another comic strip character, Little Orphan Annie, into his third Tony Award-winning musical, the spectacular hit Annie, and Broadway's eleventh-longest-running book musical of all time. Future attempts at success on Broadway and in London proved elusive.
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Charles Strouse (born June 7, 1928) is a three-time Tony Award, and a two–time Grammy and Emmy Award winning American composer and lyricist. Strouse was born and raised in New York City, the son of Ira and Ethel (Newman) Strouse. A graduate of the Eastman School of Music, Strouse studied under David Diamond, Aaron Copland and Nadia Boulanger.
