Bet your bottom dollar.

Lila Crawford in NYTimes
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What with Britain slipping into the first double-dip recession since the thirties, storm clouds hanging over Europe and America's economic malaise lingering and malingering--in short when we seem very close to reaching that bottom dollar-- what better time to announce, with fanfare on the Today Show this morning, the star for this fall's Broadway revival of "Annie."  The comic strip about the orphan with the oddly empty eyes premiered in the twenties; creator Harold Gray despised Roosevelt, the New Deal, labor unionists and Communists, who rotated with Nazis to play bad guy to the heroic and, not incidentally uber-rich, Daddy Warbucks and the plucky little orphan who never stooped to a "handout." 

The musical, more hard knocks than hard right, first opened in 1977, and has over the years starred a number of plucky young actresses, including Sarah Jessica Parker.  Here's a link to a New York Times article about a former Annie's 2006 documentary about her sister-Annies, who can, regardless of their feelings about the show, still sing their hearts out that "The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow."  http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/09/theater/09burt.html?pagewanted=all