Ageless ‘Annie’ Delights Broadway; ‘Sorry’: Jeremy Gerard
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Beware the child who says “Aw, gee!” with a plaintive sigh. There’s cunning at work behind those words that can reduce even a hard-shell capitalist like Oliver Warbucks to mush.
The words are uttered by orphan Annie, in the person of Lilla Crawford, a spindle-legged trouper with a Merman-size voice and an irresistible glint of show-biz hunger in her eyes.