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Martin Charnin (November 24, 1934 – July 6, 2019) was an American lyricist, writer, and theatre director. Charnin's best-known work is as conceiver, director, and lyricist of the musical Annie . Life and career
Jul 8, 2019 · Martin Charnin, the writer who adapted the comic strip character Little Orphan Annie for the stage, has died at the age of 84. Charnin wrote the lyrics for the hit musical's best-known songs ...
Jul 8, 2019 · Martin Charnin in his office in Manhattan in 1983. On the wall is a painting of Little Orphan Annie, the comic-strip character who inspired “Annie,” the long-running Broadway musical that Mr ...
Martin Charnin was a Tony- and Emmy-winning writer, director and producer who turned a Depression-era comic strip into Annie, the hit Broadway musical about a freckle-faced orphan with a “hard ...
Jul 7, 2019 · Updated 4:00 PM PDT, July 7, 2019. NEW YORK (AP) — Martin Charnin, who made his Broadway debut playing a Jet in the original “West Side Story” and went on to become a Broadway director and a lyricist who won a Tony Award for the score of the eternal hit “Annie,” has died. He was 84. He died Saturday at a White Plains, New York ...
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Jul 7, 2019 · Martin Charnin, the Tony-winning lyricist, writer and librettist best known for creating and directing the sensationally successful Broadway musical Annie, has died. He was 84. He was 84.
Annie (musical) Annie. (musical) Annie is a musical with music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin, and a book by Thomas Meehan. It is based on the 1924 comic strip Little Orphan Annie by Harold Gray (which in turn was inspired from the poem Little Orphant Annie by James Whitcomb Riley). The original Broadway production opened in 1977 ...
