🎄 It’s 1977, and the cast of Broadway’s hottest new musical is taking drastic measures to convince 4 different unions keep the theater open for a Christmas party because they forgot to book a venue.

Join the original Broadway cast of “Annie” as somewhere in between themselves and their characters in a unique TV Christmas special which may very well have been many TV viewers’ first exposure to the musical.

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Guy Hutchinson (Pointless Nostalgia, GuyHutchinson.com).

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1. Watch “The Annie Christmas Show” on the Internet Archive.

2. The original Broadway version of “Annie” ends on Christmas; the 1982 movie ends on the 4th of July.

3. Andrea McArdle in “Christmas at Walt Disney World.” (Full Episode)

4. Danielle Brisbois (Molly) in “All in the Family,” and she was a founding member of the band New Radicals.

5. “It’s Christmas” on the Annie 30th Anniversary Production Cast Recording, featuring multiple Annies and Miss Hannigans.

6. “I Don’t Care” in “In the Good Old Summertime” and “Back to the Future: The Game.”

7. “There’s a Broken Heart for Every Light on Broadway” in “Bullets Over Broadway.”

8. Today’s TV Trope: I Have a Family.

9. Ethel Merman sings “Tomorrow” in “A Special Sesame Street Christmas.” (Full Episode)

10. How The Twelve Days of Christmas’ days 9 through 12 got reordered.

11. Members of the cast reunited in 2019 to perform this Christmas special.

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Kinney Shoes (1977)

Fotomat (1977)

Festive Foreign Film Fans, a podcast covering festive movies and music from around the world.

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“The Annie Christmas Show” © 1977 Martin Charmin Productions / NBC Universal Network.

Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.
Full show notes and social links at adventcalendar.house.