when was the musical annie written?
Annie (1977 original Broadway cast)
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 Musicals continued to dominate at the theatre in the post @-@ World War II period , including transfers of the successful Broadway productions Follow the Girls ( 1945 ; 572 performances ) and the Lerner and Loewe musicals Brigadoon ( 1949 ; 685 performances ) and Paint Your Wagon ( 1953 ; 478 performances ) . Leonard Bernstein 's West Side Story opened in December 1958 for a run of 1 @,@ 039 performances , transferring from Broadway via the Manchester Opera House . The London première of Fiddler on the Roof was on 16 February 1967 , starring Chaim Topol , and the production ran at Her Majesty 's for 2 @,@ 030 performances . Forty years after the original stage adaptation , André Previn 's musical adaptation of The Good Companions premièred on 11 July 1974 , followed by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Alan Ayckbourn 's initially unsuccessful collaboration , Jeeves , on 22 April 1975 , which has since enjoyed considerable success . 

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 A stage adaptation of the film with a book by Doug Wright and additional songs by Alan Menken and new lyricist Glenn Slater opened in Denver in July 2007 and began performances on Broadway January 10 , 2008 . 

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 Flower Drum Song was the eighth musical by the team of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II . It was based on the 1957 novel , The Flower Drum Song , by Chinese @-@ American author C. Y. Lee . The piece opened in 1958 on Broadway and was afterwards presented in the West End and on tour . It was subsequently made into a 1961 musical film . 

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 The musical was soon premiered in Australia , Japan , and throughout Europe . 

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 The show was under almost perpetual re @-@ write . Thirteen songs were added between the production at the Public Theater and Broadway , including " I Believe in Love " . " The Climax " and " Dead End " were cut between the productions , and " Exanaplanetooch " and " You Are Standing on My Bed " were present in previews but cut before Broadway . The Shakespearean speech " What a piece of work is a man " was originally spoken by Claude and musicalized by MacDermot for Broadway , and " Hashish " was formed from an early speech of Berger 's . Subsequent productions have included " Hello There " , " Dead End " , and " Hippie Life " – a song originally written for the film that Rado included in several productions in Europe in the 1990s . The 2009 Broadway revival included the ten @-@ second " Sheila Franklin " and " O Great God of Power " , two songs that were cut from the original production . 
