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Music and Lyrics by
Irving Berlin
Book by
Herbert & Dorothy Fields
Adapted by
Peter Stone
April 28,29,May 5,6,12&13
Friday & Saturday 8:00PM
Evening Performance
April 29,30,May 6,7,13&14
Saturday & Sunday 2:00PM
Matinee Performance
@Walter C. Young Resource
Center's. Jim Davidson Theatre
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 has 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
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."
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