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The music in "Annie Get Your Gun" is vintage Irving Berlin and the show opens with "There¹s No business Like Show Business." But the main reason to see the show is Bernadette Peters. She won the Tony for Best Actress in this role and she¹s dynamite, a bundle of energy in one small package, lighting up the stage. The rest of the show seems flat without her, but the good news is that she¹s there most of the time. Tom Wopat as Frank Butler projects little sex appeal and appears a bit worn out. Despite his reputation with the ladies, it¹s hard to understand Annie¹s immediate attraction to him.
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Annie Get Your Gun is a 1950 American musical film loosely based on the life of sharpshooter Annie Oakley. The Metro Goldwyn Mayer release, with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin and a screenplay by Sidney Sheldon based on the 1946 stage musical of the same name, was directed by George Sidney. Despite some production and casting problems (Judy Garland had to withdraw from the film due to ill health), the film won the Academy Award for best score and received three other nominations. Star Betty Hutton was recognized with a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress.
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In the history of Broadway, Irving Berlin’s “Annie Get Your Gun” is right up there with the legendary, being one of the four longest running musicals of Broadway’s Golden Era. The show’s gigantic success assured it productions around the world, and Bayview is now pleased to couple for the first time, original cast recordings from three of those productions, London, Paris and Australia. Dolores Gray, London’s “Annie” had the greatest success of her illustrious career when the show ran 1,304 performances at the London Coliseum, likewise Evie Hayes, the Australian “Annie” who toured Australia and New Zealand with it for six years. Highlights from the London and Paris productions were recorded commercially and have now been newly remastered. The Paris tracks were the only show recordings ever made by the show’s French star, Lily Fayol. Although the show was a bit hit ‘down under’ the Australian cast were not recorded.
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Adapted from the popular Broadway musical starring Ethel Merman in the title role, Annie Get Your Gun tells the story of the backwoods sharpshooter (Betty Hutton) who rose to stardom in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show. Recruited for a shooting match with the show's star Frank Butler (Howard Keel) when a local innkeeper spies the bedraggled, tomboyish Annie Oakley's rifle-slinging prowess, she falls in love with her rival. When she replaces Frank as Buffalo Bill's (Louis Calhern) main attraction, though, she soon realizes the bitter truth of one of her show-stopping numbers: "You Can't Get a Man with a Gun." It's a shotgun wedding made in Heaven for the battling couple, though, as Annie, with the help of adopted pa Sitting Bull (J. Carroll Naish) and Wild West show manager Charlie Davenport (Keenan Wynn) realizes that to win the prize it's sometimes necessary to come in second.
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Annie Get Your Gun was first staged on Broadway at the Imperial Theater on May 16, 1946 and ran for 1,147 performances. Directed by Joshua Logan, Ethel Merman starred as Annie Oakley with Ray Middleton in the leading male role as Frank Butler. Foster Wilson was played by Art Barnett, Chief Sitting Bull was Harry Bellaver, Tommy Keeler was Kenneth Bowers, Charlie Davenport was Marty May, and Buffalo Bill Cody was William O'Neal.
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It was an event when MGM’s "Annie Get Your Gun" was announced for an isolated telecast in 1973, but this was exactly the wrong time to reintroduce to a new generation his greatest work. The movie had not wholly met his expectations to begin with. Chopped up with commercials as it was in pasty 70s NTSC color, it was a bad way to see it as well. To add insult to injury, the national telecast’s sound was out of synch with the picture. It was a disaster.
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