The children are enjoying the play Tomorrow based on the movie Annie at the Summer Reading Program at my hometown public library.

Kilmichael Public Library

Kilmichael, MS

Script for Reading Theatre: Tomorrow (Annie)

By: Jo Stewart Wray

                                                Tomorrow

(Kids are on pallets.)

JEAN:  Mommy, Daddy, where are you? (crying)

TOMMI:  Hush up!

PAULIE: We can’t get any sleep around here.

JEAN: Mommy, Daddy, where are you?

PAULIE: I said to hush up, Jean. (pushes Jean.)

TOMMI: I said to hush up, Jean.

JAN: Oh, stop picking on the poor child. She hasn’t done anything to you.

TOMMI: She’s keeping us awake.

PAULI: What if I give you a fat lip? (Tommi and Jan wrestle.)

TAMMY: Oh my goodness, Oh my goodness. Stop wrestling or we won’t

 get any sleep tonight. Oh my goodness, oh my goodness.

ANNIE: Quite down all y’all. Or you are gonna wake Ms. Hannigan.

(to JEAN) It is alright. It was only a bad dream. Annie’s here.

JEAN: Annie, sing me your song until I go back to sleep.

ANNIE: Again?

JEAN: Please. Please sing Tomorrow.

(ANNIE puts her arm around JEAN and sings.)

ANNIE: (sings) The sun’ll come out

                        Tomorrow

                        Bet your bottom dollar

                        That tomorrow

                        There’ll be sun!

TOMMI and PAULIE: (sing in a mocking tone)

                        Just thinkin’ about

                        Tomorrow

                        Clears away the cobwebs

                        And the sorrow

                        ‘Til there’s none.

TAMMI: Oh my goodness, oh my goodness. Now, they are singing instead of fighting.

JEAN: Thanks, Annie. I feel better now. Maybe tomorrow I won’t be an orphan anymore.

Part 2

 A clock chimes in the background. It is 4:00 A.M. ANNIE begins putting her things into a bag.)

PAULIE:  Annie, are you going somewhere?

TAMMIE: Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness.

ANNIE: My parents are never going to come to get me. I must go find them.

TOMMI: Annie, you know Miss Hannigan will find you.

ANNIE: No matter. I’m leaving here.

ALL EXCEPT TOMMI: Good luck, Annie.

TOMMI: Good bye, Annie. You know she’s going to catch you.

(ANNIE slips across the stage. As she reaches the outside door. MISS HANNIGAN opens

the door.)

MISS HANNIGAN:  Annie, caught you! (ANNIE falls to the floor.)

(ANNIE stands up.)

ANNIE: Yes, Miss Hannigan.

MISS HANNIGAN: Rotten orphan.                                                              

ANNIE: I’m not an orphan. My parents are coming back for me.

They said so when they left me.

MISS HANNIGAN: That was twelve years ago. (MISS HANNIGAN blows her whistle.)

Get up! Orphans! All of you! For this dirty trick, you will all get down on your knotty

knees and clean this dump until it shines like the top of the Chrysler Building.

(All the kids get out of bed.)

TAMMIE: But it is four o’clock in the morning.

MISS HANNIGAN: Get to work!

ANNIE AND OTHERS: Yes, Miss Hannigan.

MISS HANNIGAN: Why any kid would want to be an orphan is beyond me.

Part 3

(A POLICEMAN enters.)

POLICEMAN: Hey you! Little girl. Come here.

ANNIE: Yes, officer?

POLICEMAN:  That dog you’ve got there. Is he a stray?

ANNIE: Oh no, officer. He is my dog.

POLICEMAN: If he’s your dog, what’s his name?

ANNIE: His name. Oh, his name. Why, his name is Sandy.

POLICEMAN: Okay. Call him.

ANNIE: Call him? Well, I just got him and he might not…

POLICEMAN: Call him!

ANNIE:  Come here, Sandy! Here, boy. Here Sandy.

(Sandy crosses over to ANNIE.)

Good, Sandy! Good old Sandy.

POLICEMAN:  Next time you have him out, he better be on a leash or he goes to the dog pound.

ANNIE: Yes, Sir. We understand; don’t we Sandy.

POLICEMAN: Now, get back inside before you become sick.

You aren’t wearing a coat and it is cold out here.

Part 4

(Someone knocks at the door.)

MISS HANNIGAN: Yeah. Come in.

(POLICEMAN enters with ANNIE.)

POLICEMAN:  Good evening, Miss Hannigan. We found your runaway.

MISS HANNIGAN:  Oh, my poor darling, out in this freezing weather in that thin sweater.

 Thanks so much, officer.

POLICEMAN: It’s my job. Good afternoon, Miss Hannigan.

(POLICEMAN exits. Miss Hannigan acts like her normal self.)

MISS HANNIGAN: Well, Annie. Are you glad to be back here?

ANNIE: Yes, Miss Hannagin.

MISS HANNIGAN: Didn’t I teach you never to tell a lie?

(GRACE enters.)

GRACE:  Good afternoon, Miss Hannigan.

MISS HANNIGAN: Yes. What can I do for you?

GRACE: I’m Grace Farrell, private secretary to Oliver Warbucks.

MISS HANNIGAN: The Oliver Warbucks? The millionaire?

GRACE: Mr. Warbucks wants to invite one of your orphans to spend the Christmas

Holidays at his house.

(ANNIE smiles ear to ear.)

MISS HANNIGAN: What kind of orphan does he have in mind?

(ANNIE points to herself.)

GRACE: What about this one here? (GRACE points to ANNIE.)

MISS HANNIGAN: Annie? No, No! You can’t take, Annie.

GRACE: Annie, would you like to spend Christmas at Mr. Warbuck’s house?

ANNIE: I would love to.

GRACE: Miss Hannigan, if you would get her coat, I’ll take her today.

MISS HANNIGAN: She doesn’t have a coat!

GRACE: Then we’ll buy her one. (to MISS HANNIGAN.) Merry Christmas.

(to Annie)

Come along, Annie.

(All kids sing.)

The sun’ll come out

Tomorrow

Bet your bottom dollar

That tomorrow

There’ll be sun.

(ALL actors and actresses bow.)

                                                The End