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From the soaps to Broadway. It's enough to make a girl say "Leapin' lizards." Which is just what Search for Tomorrow's Andrea McArdle, age 13, does in her new role as Little Orphan Annie. The Broadway-bound musical Annie, now playing at Washington's Kennedy Center, also stars Actor Reid Shelton as the magnanimous Daddy Warbucks and Unknown Canine Sandy as Annie's faithful mutt. Making his production debut with the play is Actor and Director Mike Nichols, who saw it in summer stock and was smitten. "It's a sweet show but not saccharine, and it's touching because Annie is a tough little girl who doesn't ask anything from anybody," says Nichols, adding that "all my life I've wanted to be a producer. To me, a producer is the guy who comes in once every three weeks or so and says the shoes are wrong. It's the ideal job."