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Annie Get Your Gun

Annie Get Your Gun

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Annie Get Your Gun is a 1946 musical with lyrics and music by Irving Berlin and a book by Dorothy Fields and her brother Herbert Fields. The story is a fictionalized version of the life of Annie Oakley (1860–1926), a sharpshooter who starred in Buffalo Bill's Wild West, and her romance with fellow sharpshooter Frank E.

Opened
1946
Performances
1,147
Type
Musical
Era
Golden Age
Music: Irving BerlinLyrics: Irving BerlinBook: Dorothy Fields & Herbert Fields

Productions4 on Broadway

1946 Imperial Theatre Original. May 16, 1946 · Joshua Logan 1,147 performances
1947 Transfer Theatre not recorded. June 7, 1947
1966 Broadway Theatre Revival. September 21, 1966 · Jack Sydow 78 performances
1999 Marquis Theatre Revival. March 4, 1999 · Graciela Daniele 1,045 performances

Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.

Licensing 4 entries

US Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals available
US Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals available
UK Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals available
UK Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals available

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In the literature41 passages

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. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-green-stanley-green-kay-5th-ed-rev-and-updated-by#p154

The London run of Annie Get Your Gun ran for 1,304 performances, which was longer than the New York production. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p196

Atkinson played Frank Butler in the 1958 New York City Center Light Opera Company revival of Annie Get Your Gun . book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p370

the February 1958 Annie Get Your Gun opened three months after the television production was aired; book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p533

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… book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p686

Ethel Merman in the 1966 revival of Annie Get Your Gun introduced Irving Berlin’s show-stopper “An Old-Fashioned Wedding.” book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p861

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