


He currently lives in New York city and in Nantucket, Massachusetts. He received a Tony Award for Annie in 1977, for The Producers in 2001 and in 2003 for the musical Hairspray. He worked as a journalist for the New Yorker magazine and wrote comedy sketches for the satirical TV show, 'That Was the Week That Was'. Thomas Meehan was born in New York in 1929. The author THOMAS MEEHAN is the playwright of the original Broadway play and he has expanded the story of the plucky little orphan in this classic American tale. Will kind-hearted Annie find a way to escape her hard-knock life? So she runs away to find her parents - and along the way she rescues a friendly dog, meets millionaire Oliver Warbucks, and has a many scary and exciting adventures. But mean Miss Hannigan the headmistress is making Annie's life a misery. It's 1933 and for as long as she can remember, 11 year old Annie has believed that her mother and father would come back to her New York City orphanage to get her.

Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo The story of Annie - everyone's favourite orphan - with an introduction by writer, actor and comedian Miranda Hart. ROLL OF THUNDER, HEAR MY CRY by Mildred D.Also available on eBook for £4.99. GOODNIGHT MISTER TOM and BACK HOME by Michelle MagorianĬHARLOTTES WEB, STUART LITTLE and THE TRUMPET OF THE SWAN by E. He worked as a journalist for the New Yorker magazine and wrote comedy sketches for the satirical TV show, That Was the Week That Was. But mean Miss Hannigan the headmistress is making Annies life a misery. Its 1933 and for as long as she can remember, 11 year old Annie has believed that her mother and father would come back to her New York City orphanage to get her. Her adventures ran in newspapers in America for over 40 years before it was turned into a Broadway musical.

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