The run closed February 12, 1949
- Opened
- May 16, 1946
- Closed
- February 12, 1949
- Performances
- 1,147
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Imperial Theatre
Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 9th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Annie Get Your Gun 3 more that season
| 1947 | Transfer Transfer | |
| 1966 | Broadway Theatre Revival · Jack Sydow | 78 perf. |
| 1999 | Marquis Theatre Revival · Graciela Daniele | 1,045 perf. |
Who was in it120 named
Franca Baldwin
Truly Barbara
Art Barnett
Jack Beaber
Harry Bellaver
Leon Bibb
Janice Bodenhoff
Bernice Brady
Jack Byron
Marlene Cameron
Pete Civello
Victor Clarke
Marjorie Crossland
Camilla de Witt
Robert Dixon
John Garth Iii
Mary Ellen Glass
Mary Grey
Bernard Griffin
Vincent Henry
Ray Hyson
Walter John
Don Liberto
Ostrid Lind
George Lipton
Roslynd Lowe
Elizabeth Malone
Roy Milton
Duncan Noble
Edward Pfeiffer
Jack Pierce
Nancy Jean Raab
Nellie Ranson
Dorothy Richards
Fred Rivett
Harriet Roeder
Alma Ross
Clifford Sales
Bernice Saunders
Earl Sauvain
Rob Taylor
Clyde Turner
Katrina van Oss
Marietta Vore
Ruth Vrana
William Weslow
Ken Whelan
Mary Woodley
Helen Wysatt
Barbara Barlow
Wes Bowman
Tessie Carrano
Lloyd Cole
Joseph Cunneff
Art Davenport
Sandra Deel
Madeleine Detry
Pat Dexter
Charles Dickson
Andrea Downing
Jane Earle
Rose Marie Elliott
Bert Freed
Gerald Fries
Cyprienne Gableman
Barbara Gaye
Evelyn Giles
Gloria Gordon
Harold Gordon
Noel Gordon
Gilbert Green
Clarence Hall
Henry Hamilton
Betty Lou Holland
Bobby Hookey
Eddie Howland
Jack Konzal
Martin Kraft
Christina Lind
Michael Maule
Phil Mceneny
Kam Moran
Robert Nash
Fernand Nault
James Newill
Doreen Oswald
Ralph Patterson
Jean Robles
Beverly Sales
Claire Saunders
William Skipper
Jean Spelvin
Clifford Tatum Jr
Frances Taylor
Susan Taylor
Arthur Ulisse
Jean Weeks
Elaine Baker Welch
Gordon West
Helene Whitney
Parker Wilson
Stanley Zompakos
22 of these 120 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 98 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Characters9 roles recorded
Ethel Merman Annie Oakley
Ray Middleton Frank Butler
Lea Penman Dolly Tate/Davenport
William O'Neal Buffalo Bill
Harry Bellaver Chief Sitting Bull
Kenneth Bowers Tommy Keeler
Marty May Charlie Davenport
Betty Anne Nyman Winnie Tate
George Lipton Pawnee Bill
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- Joshua Logan
- Choreographer
- Helen Tamiris
- Producer
- Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II
- Orchestrations
- Philip J. Lang
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Around this production
The score was originally meant to be written by Jerome Kern, who died suddenly. Berlin was so intimidated by the assignment that he nearly turned it down, then wrote one of the greatest scores in Broadway history.
- Annie Get Your Gun was the first of two shows Irving Berlin wrote for Ethel Merman (the other was Call Me Madam). The third longest running musical of the Forties, it was also the biggest Broadway hit of their respective careers. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Green Stanley Green Kay 5th Ed Rev and Updated By, p. 154
- The London run of Annie Get Your Gun ran for 1,304 performances, which was longer than the New York production. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 196
- Atkinson played Frank Butler in the 1958 New York City Center Light Opera Company revival of Annie Get Your Gun . Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 370
- the February 1958 Annie Get Your Gun opened three months after the television production was aired; Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 533
- Irving Berlin’s Annie Get Your Gun was his biggest hit, running for 1,147 performances and offering a number of popular standards, including “There’s No Business Like Show Business,” “They Say It’s Wonderful,” “The Girl That I Marry,” “Anything You Can Do,” “Doin’ What Comes Naturally,” and “I Got the Sun in the Mornin… Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 686
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No recording is held for Annie Get Your Gun at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.