No more"Tomorrow" for Martin Chanin. "Annie" creator dead at 84

Cafe Society
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A moment of silence, please, for the man who helped give us this earworm:

Tomorrow
Tomorrow
I love you
Tomorrow
You’re always a day away.

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Almost a misleading title. Yeah, Annie, not Little Orphan Annie. The latter creator died in 1968. It would be amazing if the creator of strip that started in 1924 had just died.

Mrs. FtG has had the “pleasure” of attending a small school’s version of the musical. (We need a brrr/shiver emoticon.)

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Forbidden Broadway sent this up wonderfully by bring a much older Annie on stage, holding a stuffed “Sandy” and taking a long drag on a cigarette before bursting into

I’m thirty years old
Tomorrow

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I’m thirty years old
Tomorrow
And I haven’t work since I played Annie
When I was ten.
But maybe there’s hope
Tomorrow
Maybe Martin Charnin will bring Annie back again.

I don’t think so.