Come On, Lotta! We're Going to Annie!

**Come On, Lotta! We're Going to Annie!** is an upcoming film. It is also a *Harvey Girls Forever!* and *1982 Annie* crossover film.

## Trivia

* In this film, Lotta meets Annie and befriends her.
* The Horn-A-Corns make a cameo appearance during "It's the Hard Knock Life for Us".

## Plot

The Harvey Girls are in 1933, during the Great Depression, and Lotta meets a young orphan named Annie, who lives in the Hudson Street Orphanage in New York City which is run by Miss Hannigan, a cruel alcoholic who forces the orphans to clean the building daily ("It's the Hard Knock Life for Us"). With half of a locket as her only possession, Audrey, Lotta, Dot and Annie remain optimistic that her parents, who left her on the doorstep as a baby, will return for her ("Maybe"). Audrey sneaks out with help from a laundry man named Mr. Jules Bundles and adopts a stray dog which Annie names Sandy ("Dumb Dog"). Unfortunately, Annie is returned to the orphanage shortly after by a police officer ("Sandy").

Grace Farrell, secretary to billionaire Oliver Warbucks, arrives to invite an orphan to live with Warbucks for a week in order to improve his public image. Annie is chosen and she, the Harvey Girls and Sandy travel to Warbucks's mansion where they meet his many servants and two bodyguards Punjab and the Asp ("I Think I'm Gonna Like It Here"). Initially dismissive of Annie due to her being female, Warbucks is charmed into letting her stay to which he takes Annie, Lotta and Grace to the Radio City Music Hall to watch a movie Camille while beginning to develop affection for Annie ("Let's Go to the Movies"). Grace urges him to adopt Annie ("We Got Annie") and he meets with Miss Hannigan, convincing her to sign the adoption papers while Hannigan drunkenly tries to seduce him ("Sign").

Warbucks reveals his plans to Annie, even offering her a new locket, but she declines. She explains the purpose of her broken locket and her hope that her parents will return with the other half. Warbucks and Lotta appear on Bert Healy's radio show and offers $50,000 to find Annie's parents ("You're Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile"). This causes mass hysteria with many would-be parents appearing to claim the money. To escape the madness, Warbucks flies Annie and the girls to the White House and introduces her to President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his wife Eleanor. Roosevelt informs them of his plan to introduce a social welfare program to help America's impoverished and asks Warbucks to head it; Audrey, Lotta, Dot and Annie encourage him to help ("Tomorrow"). Upon returning home, Annie is disheartened when Grace reveals none of the potential parents knew about the locket.

Miss Hannigan is visited by her con artist brother Rooster and his girlfriend Lily St. Regis; they plot to pose as Annie's parents to gain the reward. The trio search the orphans' belongings and Miss Hannigan reveals Annie's real parents died in a fire years ago; therefore she (Hannigan) possesses the other half of the locket ("Easy Street"). Annie's friends overhear the conversation and try to sneak out, but are caught and locked away. Rooster and Lily succeed with the ruse and Audrey, Lotta, Dot and Annie are kidnapped minutes after leaving the mansion ("Maybe (Reprise"). However, her friends ultimately reach Warbucks and tell him the truth; he informs the FBI and the police, who begin a citywide search.

Audrey, Lotta, Dot and Annie convince the felons to pull over, only to escape and destroy Warbucks's check. Driven insane with fury, Rooster chases Annie up a raised railroad bridge in an effort to kill her; Miss Hannigan never wanted Annie hurt and attempts to stop Rooster, but her own brother knocks her out. Punjab is able to rescue Audrey, Lotta, Dot and Annie, reuniting them with Warbucks and Grace. Rooster and Lily are arrested while Audrey, Lotta, Dot and Annie is officially adopted by Warbucks ("I Don't Need Anything But You"). At a party in which the orphans, a redeemed Miss Hannigan and the Roosevelts attend, Warbucks gives Annie the new locket and she embraces her new father. Warbucks also kisses Grace (reciprocating the feelings she secretly harbors for him) implying that the two will eventually marry. The fireworks as in the ending credits crackle overhead and write Annie and Lotta's names.