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ANNIE GET YOUR GUN

Music and Lyrics by IRVING BERLIN

Original Book by HERBERT & DOROTHY FIELDS

 As Revised by PETER STONE

ANNIE GET YOUR GUN IS PRESENTED THROUGH SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT WITH ORiGiN THEATRICAL
ON BEHALF OF R&H THEATRICALS www.rhs.com

Show dates

Rehearsals started 7 February 2017.  The production ran from 19 May to 3 June 2017. Fridays at 8pm, Saturdays at 1pm and 7pm.

Production Team

Director: Emma Sedlak
Music Director: Stephen Lee
Production Manager: Bec Kimpton
Choreographer: Bronwyn Carroll
Assistant Director: Bec Forbes
Assistant Production Manager: Rochelle

 Boulden
Makeup Director: Megan Carroll
Decor Director: Karen Swancott

Wardrobe: Megan Reddel & Beth Virzi

Principal Cast

Annie Oakley: Suzanne Chin

Frank Butler: Clive Hobson

Buffalo Bill Cody: Adam Wilson

Winnie Tate: Alex Page

Tommy Keeler: David Forbes

Dolly Tate: Caroline Reddel

Chief Sitting Bull: Bess Yager

Charlie Davenport: Andrew Yager

Foster Wilson: Kieran Gilkes

Pawnee Bill: Michael Clewes

 

“Annie” Kids Cast

Little Jake: Lang Wilson

Nellie: Rebecca Wilson

Jessie: Elsie Wilson

‘Little Anakin’: Josh Wilson

“Frank” Kids Cast

Little Jake: Benjamin Desjardins

Nellie: Abigail Moyes

Jessie: Gracie Moyes

‘Little Anakin’: Patrick Carey

Minor Principals

Mrs Sylvia Potter-Porter: Kerri-Ann
Wilson

Mrs Schyler Adams: Karen Swancott

Featured Dancers

Phoebe Atkins

Skye Hodges

Amelia McCann

Juliet Smith

Joanna Swaddling

Karen Swancott

Kerri-Ann Wilson

Featured Singers Trio

Hayley Cooper

Analise Kay

James Ogg

Ensemble

Guy Burge, Megan Cooper, Albert Drake, Rachael Foreman, Hannah Leary, Melody Newberry, Linda Newman, Megan Reddel, Allyson Turner and Beth Virzi

 

About the Show

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 theatre's enduring triumphs."

From the Director

Irving Berlin’s musical Annie Get Your Gun is a gun-toting fictionalised version of the life of Annie Oakley, a sharpshooter who ousted her romantic partner Frank Butler as the star of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West travelling show. Annie transitions from her small-town life (delivering game that’s not filled with buckshots to the local hotels) — and has virtually no idea how to translate her unusual skills of precision into the world at large.

This is a show full of love and conflict (with the bruised egos and fantastic expectations that go with it!), toeing the line of opposing paradigms. What is conventional? What is traditional? What is normal? I’m excited to forewarn you: we will be asking all of these questions, and creating a new context for this wonderful show -- that is literally out of this world!

 

Emma Sedlak, Director

Annie Get Your Gun 2017