When author Kristen Martin lost her own parents to cancer as a child, her experience as an orphan was nothing like that.

The current national tour of “Annie,” a musical which had its world premiere in Connecticut nearly 50 years ago, is coming to the Oakdale Theatre in Wallingford Jan. 25 and 26.

Well, he was an orphan himself, abandoned and as Annie tells him ... was fighting to keep scenes that established the time period, like the Hooverville scene with the people who are out ...