Annie Get Your Gun - October 18 - October 20, 2013
Childress Theatre Company
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Childress Theatre Company & Childress ISD present
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| Irving Berlin's |
| ANNIE GET YOUR GUN |
Music & Lyrics by IRVING BERLIN
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Original Book by HERBERT AND DOROTHY FIELDS As revised by PETER STONE |
October 18 & 19, 2013
7:30 p.m.
October 20, 2013
2:30 p.m.
Childress Jr. High Auditorium
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Directed by Linda Gooch |
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Co-Directed by Ramona Garcia
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| Show Synopsis: ANNIE GET YOUR GUN scored a bulls eye when it returned to Broadway in 1999, starring Bernadette Peters and sporting a revised libretto by Tony, Oscar, and Emmy winner Peter Stone. As Newsday reported, Stone's revisions "are sweetly ingenious and the show is a dream." Stone reshaped the 1946 book to create a Wild West show-within-a-show that frames the ageless "Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better" love story of sharpshooters Annie Oakley and Frank Butler. Stone added a secondary romance between the younger sister of Frank's bothersome assistant, Dolly, and a boy who is (to Dolly's horror) part Native American. "The book has been updated in ways that pass p.c. muster," reported Time Magazine, "without losing all the fun." Joined to the new book, of course, is that amazing Irving Berlin score, featuring hit after hit. "Irving Berlin's greatest achievement in the theater," wrote the New York Post. "ANNIE, GET YOUR GUN will always be a musical for the ages, one of the Broadway theater's enduring triumphs." |
| ANNIE GET YOUR GUN |
| is presented through special arrangement with R&H Theatricals: www.rnh.com |
