PEPPER: Shut up! Duffy: Can’t anybody get any sleep around here? Duffy, Kate, Pepper: so that when we come back for her you will know that she’s our baby.

Duffy is a supporting character in Annie. She was originally the second oldest of the orphans, being one year younger than 14-year-old Pepper, but in the current version of the musical, she is the eldest of the orphans along with July at age 13 and acts much more mature than the other orphans .

She has her recurring phrase Oh my goodness which she uses over and over. She must be a strong solo vocalist who sings solo lines in the songs. Both Kate and Duffy follow the lead of Pepper and July. They both must be strong solo vocalists who sing solo lines in the songs.

Home. The Orphans are supporting characters from Annie. Not counting the protagonist, Annie, there are only six of them known by name, who are Molly, Pepper, Kate, Duffy, Tessie, and July.

Warbucks learns that he is still rich and now doesn’t have to get married. However, he decides that he is not so old after all and finally asks Grace to marry him. They decide to adopt all of the orphans, and the wedding proceeds.

around 10 years old Tessie is one of the many orphans from the Broadway play and film adaptations of Annie. She is known for her catchphrase, Oh my goodness, Oh my goodness! and her constant mood swings from being happy one minute and worrisome the next. Tessie is around 10 years old.

July is the second oldest orphan. July is 13 years old. Marissa Rago as Pepper, the oldest orphan.

11-year-old Characters

Characters Description
Annie Bennett The title character. The spunky and optimistic 11-year-old orphan who is looking for her birth parents. She ends up getting adopted by Oliver Warbucks.
Grace Farrell Oliver Warbucks’ faithful secretary, who loves Annie from the start.

Hannigan has over 100 lines and sings in Little Girls and Easy Street. She is the loyal private secretary to Oliver Warbucks.

TESSIE is the sensitive one, age 10. Vocal Audition: It’s The Hard-Knock Life Page 2 SANDY is a stray dog that Annie adopts. Sandy has no lines but may earn spontaneous applause when he sings Tomorrow with Annie!

Lt. Ward is the policeman who questions Annie about Sandy, the stray dog. This is a non-singing role and great for a kid who can play an authoritative adult. This is also a great cameo role for a principal or well-known community member.

Pepper is a bully and one of the orphans from the Broadway show and film, Annie. … She was originally the oldest, but in the current version of the Broadway play, two other orphans, Duffy and July, are older than her. She is also the meanest and bossiest orphan especially towards Molly.

Sign Song Order Sign is a song sung by Oliver Warbucks and Miss Hannigan when Oliver asked her to sign. However, she doesn’t want to sign and wants to date Oliver Warbucks. By making him offers.

Annie the musical is based on Harold Gray’s comic strip Little Orphan Annie, which itself was based on an 1885 poem originally titled The Elf Child. At the poem’s third printing, poet James Whitcomb Riley decided to change its title to Little Orphan Allie to memorialize the real-life orphan that served as …

While Miss Hannigan is flirting with him, Annie climbs into the laundry basket and the orphans cover her up with the blankets. Once Miss Hannigan realizes she is gone, the other orphans express their frustration (Hard Knock Life (Reprise)). Annie successfully escapes, running into a friendly stray dog.

Before her punishment, Annie is taken away by Grace Farrell to live with Oliver Warbucks. Miss Hannigan disguises herself as Annie’s mother and tries to take Annie so she can get Oliver Warbuck’s reward money, but she is caught by President Roosevelt.

(ANNIE takes a crumpled note from her pocket, unfolds it and reads it to MOLLY) Please take good care of our little darling.Her name is Annie (Mockingly, she has heard this note read a thousand times before) She was born on October 28th. We will be back to get her soon.

In Meehan’s 1980 novelisation, Miss Hannigan shows no qualms whatsoever about Annie being killed. In both of these media, Miss Hannigan ends up being duly arrested along with Rooster and Lily at the Warbucks mansion.

Pepper is the meanest and feistiest out of the orphans aged 14 (movies, original version of musical, and novelization) or 12 (current version of the musical).

Miss Agatha Hannigan In the depths of the 1930s, Annie (Aileen Quinn) is a fiery young orphan girl who must live in a miserable orphanage run by the tyrannical Miss Agatha Hannigan (Carol Burnett).

Toni Ann Gisondi Toni Ann Gisondi is a former child actress, best known for playing Mollythe youngest orphanin the 1982 film version of the musical Annie.

Quvenzhan Wallis Quvenzhan Wallis as Annie Bennett, a 10-year-old child living in a foster home searching for her parents.

Punjab rescues Annie and reunites her with Warbucks and Grace. Rooster and Lily are arrested and Annie is officially adopted by Warbucks. At a party which the orphans, a redeemed Hannigan, and the Roosevelts attend, Warbucks gives Annie the new locket as they embrace.

Trivia. It is unknown what the liquid in the bottle is exactly, however atsuover has dubbed it T H E L I Q U I D. Specifically, it is not water, soda, or any alcoholic beverage. atsuover has stated that T H E L I Q U I D is just a carbonated drink.

Aileen now works as a theatre professor at Monmouth University in New Jersey, and is also the leading lady of Los Angeles-based rock band The Leapin’ Lizards.

Annie is friendly, good-natured, and usually positive. She lives in New York City, and resides in an orphanage until she is adopted by Oliver Warbucks. In the films, she was stated to have been born on October 28; the original comic strips state that she was born on February 29.

July is a mother figure to all. She is the sweetest while not exactly the prettiest. In the official novelization and the original version of the play she is said to be the third oldest of the orphans at age 12 (with only Pepper and Duffy being older than her).

After Beechman left Annie, the Star to Be was played by Shelly Burch, who would go on to originate the role of Claudia in Tommy Tune’s Tony-winning musical Nine, performing Maury Yeston’s haunting number Unusual Way. She also starred on the daytime soap One Life to Live as Delila Ralston.

The alcoholic caretaker of the orphanage in New York City, she despises children, particularly girls, but nonetheless loves her job.