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2	* CutSong: There were several, with the songwriters' demo recordings featured as bonus tracks on the Original Broadway Cast Album:
3	** "Apples": An opening number highlighting the Depression era setting, with several apple sellers on the street singing about how they used to be rich. This was cut because it delayed Annie's introduction too long; its sentiments were transferred into "We'd Like to Thank You, Herbert Hoover."
4	** "We Got Annie": Sung by the customers at the beanery where Annie works about how much they love her. This was cut after the plot line of Annie working at the beanery was cut, but it was reinstated for [[Film/Annie1982 the 1982 film]] and in later stage productions too (including the Creator/{{NBC}} telecast), sung by Warbucks' staff instead.
5	** "Just Wait": The original version of "Little Girls," with the then-named Miss Asthma singing to Annie about the sadistic ways she'll punish her after she's brought back to the orphanage. "Little Girls" uses the same tune with a completely different lyric.
6	** "That's the Way It Goes": Sung by Miss Asthma and her brother Al (Rooster), complaining about how the rich always get richer while the poor get poorer; later replaced by the more upbeat "Easy Street."
7	** "The Parents": A comic number at the Warbucks mansion with several couples of different ethnicities trying to pass themselves off as Annie's parents.
8	** "I've Never Been So Happy": A solo for Annie where she frantically tries to convince herself she's happy that the "Mudges" are her parents; this was replaced by the "Maybe" reprise.
9	* DawsonCasting: Both Kristen Vigard and Andrea [=McArdle=] were 14 when they played the 11-year old title character in the original 1977 musical production, though this is more or less averted in some of the later productions, notably with Lilla Crawford who was around Annie's age in the 2012 revival. The 1982 film and the 1997 20th Anniversary revival both even [[AgeLift lowered Annie's age]] to 10, because their Annies, Aileen Queen and Brittny Kissinger, were respectively 10 and 8 years old and clearly not 11 yet.
10	* DisabledCharacterDisabledActor: ''Annie Live!'' has real-life polio survivor Alan Toy portray President Roosevelt.
11	* DisownedAdaptation: Martin Charnin, the musical's lyricist and original stage director, has openly expressed dislike for all three film versions, as well as the 2012 stage revival directed by James Lapine -- in short, any version where the attempts at freshness stray too far from his original vision.
12	* FilmedStageProduction: Creator/{{NBC}} aired a live performance of the musical as ''Annie Live!'' in 2021.
13	* ThePeteBest:
14	** Kristen Vigard played Annie for one week in out-of-town previews, but then the creative team decided she was too sweet in the role and replaced her with Andrea [=McArdle=], who had been playing [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Pepper]] and gave off a more believably tough, streetwise vibe. Vigard became her understudy.
15	** Joanna Pacitti was the highly-hyped newcomer cast for the 1997 Broadway revival, but was fired during the pre-Broadway tour due to bronchitis and replaced by Brittny Kissinger. (This became fodder for a ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' bit via a "Weekend Update" segment.)
16	* RealitySubtext: Creator/{{NBC}}'s live production adds a new line for Warbucks; when he invites Annie to see a Broadway show with Grace, he comments, "I'm glad to see Broadway getting back on its feet, in spite of the hard times." At the time the telecast aired, Broadway had recently reopened following its lengthy hiatus during the UsefulNotes/CovidPandemic.
17	* SelfAdaptation: The play's writer, Thomas Meehan wrote its novelization.
18	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
19	** The musical was originally intended to have been longer and more of a GenderFlipped ''Literature/OliverTwist''-esque tale, but this was cut as it would make the show unnecessarily long; this was later reinstated and expanded upon in the novelization. Among the cut scenes were a prologue showing Annie's parents leaving her on the orphanage doorstep as a baby and a plot line of Annie working at a beanery after running away from the orphanage.
20	** The now-infamous "Tomorrow" was originally intended for an unrelated musical called ''Charlie and Algernon'', which was based on the sci-fi short story ''Flowers for Algernon''. Problems "during its out-of-town engagement in Washington D.C." was cited as the reason for the song to be used in Annie, and it since became firmly associated with the musical and the franchise in general, becoming a staple in children's music.
21	** Miss Hannigan was originally going to be called Miss Asthma like her counterpart in the comic strip, Rooster was named Al Asthma, and Grace Farrell was called Grace Fair.
22	** Early NBC casting announcements credited Creator/JaneKrakowski as Lily St. Regis, and Andrea [=McArdle=] as Eleanor Roosevelt. However, Krakowski contracted COVID-19 before the airing, resulting in Creator/MeganHilty replacing her. Meanwhile, [=McArdle=]'s father ended up in the hospital, and her character was not recast while she tended to him.

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