2012 Performance dates:
July 18, 21, 25, 27
August 3, 8, 11, 14, 17, 21, 24, 29
September 1
8:00 p.m. Hatchery Park
There’s no business like show business! Saddle up for a Wild West adventure. Ride along with Annie Oakley, a backwoods gal with a sure-shot and quick wit, as she challenges striking marksman Frank Butler to be the star of Buffalo Bill’s traveling show. Sparks fly faster than bullets as the competition and romance heat up. Featuring some of Broadway’s greatest songs: “There’s No Business Like Show Business,” “Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better,” and “You Can’t Get A Man With A Gun.” This Irving Berlin classic hits the bulls-eye every time!
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Please note that infants and children under 5 are not admitted to LST shows.
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FAMILY GUIDE
As a parent, you are the only person qualified to determine what is appropriate for your child. The following information is provided to help you make the decision that is right for you and your family.
SYNOPSIS
Annie Get Your Gun is an exciting Wild West spectacular full of romance, show-stopping sharpshooting and timeless Irving Berlin hits. In this show-within-a-show (based on a true story) Buffalo Bill Cody tells the tale of the legendary romance of Annie Oakley and Frank Butler. The time is the late 1800s, and handsome, womanizing sharpshooter Frank Butler is starring in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show as it travels across the United States. In Cincinnati, Ohio, he discovers the plain-spoken, tomboyish Annie Oakley, whose skills with a rifle rival even Frank’s. Annie is instantly enamored with Frank and agrees to join the Wild West Show so she can be with him. Although she is very different from his idea of the perfect woman, Frank slowly begins to fall for Annie’s simple, honest charm. Love is also in the air for other members of the troupe, including the young couple of Winnie Tate and Tommy Keeler, but their romance is thwarted by the disapproval of Winnie’s older sister, Dolly Tate, who is desperate for a man of her own. As Annie’s star in the entertainment world rises, Frank and Annie’s stubborn and competitive natures drive them apart, but their undeniable attraction and a little bit of clever scheming brings them back together again. Ultimately everyone discovers that love really does conquer even the biggest obstacles and most stubborn egos. Annie Get Your Gun is a fun, lively classic that will entertain and delight audiences.
MATURE CONTENT/CONTROVERSIAL SUBJECTS
Frank and Annie’s relationship is passionate and volatile. They are alternately madly in love and in fierce competition with each other. Their fights mostly involve bruised egos and hurt feelings, but never real malice or violence. Tommy and Winnie’s relationship is wholesome and sweet. They elope when Winnie is still a minor but are then forced apart by Winnie’s older sister Dolly, only to marry again after Winnie reaches the age of majority. Dolly’s desperate attempts to woo Frank are more comical than seductive.
There are some jokes and humorous song lyrics with mild sexual innuendo, particularly in the song “Doin’ What Comes Natur’lly” and in the comical squabbling between the characters Dolly Tate and Charlie Davenport.
The interactions between some characters of different races demonstrate negative racial stereotyping that was an unfortunate reality during the time period in which the show takes place, specifically stereotyping of Indians (Native Americans). For example, Dolly’s animosity toward Tommy stems, in part, from her disapproval of the fact that he is a half-Indian “savage”.
LANGUAGE
Although there is no excessive profanity in the show, some of the characters do repeatedly use mild curses such as ‘hell’ or ‘damn’.
DRUGS/ALCOHOL
Some characters may appear to drink “alcohol” onstage but drugs and alcohol are not a significant part of the show.
Annie Get Your Gun is an exciting Wild West spectacular full of romance, show-stopping sharpshooting and timeless Irving Berlin hits. In this show-within-a-show (based on a true story) Buffalo Bill Cody tells the tale of the legendary romance of Annie Oakley and Frank Butler. The time is the late 1800s, and handsome, womanizing sharpshooter Frank Butler is starring in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show as it travels across the United States. In Cincinnati, Ohio, he discovers the plain-spoken, tomboyish Annie Oakley, whose skills with a rifle rival even Frank’s. Annie is instantly enamored with Frank and agrees to join the Wild West Show so she can be with him. Although she is very different from his idea of the perfect woman, Frank slowly begins to fall for Annie’s simple, honest charm. Love is also in the air for other members of the troupe, including the young couple of Winnie Tate and Tommy Keeler, but their romance is thwarted by the disapproval of Winnie’s older sister, Dolly Tate, who is desperate for a man of her own. As Annie’s star in the entertainment world rises, Frank and Annie’s stubborn and competitive natures drive them apart, but their undeniable attraction and a little bit of clever scheming brings them back together again. Ultimately everyone discovers that love really does conquer even the biggest obstacles and most stubborn egos. Annie Get Your Gun is a fun, lively classic that will entertain and delight audiences.
Some characters may appear to drink “alcohol” onstage but drugs and alcohol are not a significant part of the show.
