In the morning, Bundles, the laundry man, comes to make a pick-up from the orphanage. As they clean, they complain about the difficult circumstances ("It's the Hard-Knock Life"). Miss Hannigan makes all the Orphans get up to scrub floors and strip beds to "pay" for Annie's misbehavior. She packs a bag and starts to leave when the villainous director of the orphanage, Miss Hannigan, discovers her. Thinking about her parents inspires Annie to run away from the orphanage and search for them. Annie pulls Molly close and sings about the parents she imagines, but has never known. Pepper reminds the group that they also left Annie one-half of a silver locket and kept the other half with a promise to reclaim her one day. Annie, who is eleven, comforts Molly, who begs her to read a note that Annie's parents left when they abandoned her. The other orphans wake up and begin arguing. Molly is just waking up from a dream and crying out for her mother. The Orphans, including Molly, Kate, Tessie, Pepper, July and Duffy are sleeping in the girl's annex of The New York City Municipal Orphanage. The scene opens on a morning in early December 1933.
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