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| | CNN.com - 'Annie' celebrates 25 years - April 25, 2002 |
 | | After a disastrous tryout in East Haddam, Connecticut, in 1976, Annie director Martin Charnin realized that unless he recast the lead role with a person who had "guts and street smarts," the show was sunk. |
 | | So he promoted Andrea McArdle, who was then turning 13, from her role as a bullying orphan to Annie. |
 | | McArdle, 38, now lives in New Rochelle, New York, with her husband, songwriter Edd Kalehoff, 56, and their daughter Alexis, 13, who acted with McArdle (playing Young Cosette to McArdle's Éponine) in a 1997 Philadelphia production of "Les Misérables." |
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