2008 – Annie Get Your Gun
Annie Get Your Gun is a musical with lyrics and music written by Irving Berlin and a book by Dorothy Fields and her brother Herbert Fields. The story is a fictionalised version of the life of Annie Oakley (1860–1926), a sharpshooter who starred in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, and her romance with sharpshooter Frank Butler.
The 1946 Broadway production was a hit, and the musical had long runs in both New York (1,147 performances) and London, spawning revivals, a 1950 film version and television versions. Songs that became hits include “There’s No Business Like Show Business”, “Doin’ What Comes Natur’lly”, “You Can’t Get a Man with a Gun”, “They Say It’s Wonderful”, and “Anything You Can Do.”
Cast
Frank Butler – Chris Head
Buffalo Bill Cody – Keith Reynolds
Dolly Tate – Alex Gamble
Tommy Keeler – Sam Hutchinson
Winnie Tate – Emma McEnaney
Charlie Davenport – Steve Cox
Foster Wilson – Keith Youles
Chief Sitting Bull – Gordon Fletcher
Annie Oakley – Karen Jamieson
Jessie Oakley – Rachel Vickers
Nellie Oakley – Melissa Wood
Little Jake Oakley – Sean Horobin
Running Deer – Deb Wilson
Eagle Feather – Janet Lees
Pawnee Bill – Eric Coxon
Mrs Sylvia Potter-Porter – Carole Youles
Mrs Schuyler Adams – Elizabeth Harris
Ensemble
Shirley Bettison, Angela Bithell, Sandie Clark, Ann Dawson, Cathy Field, Betty Halsall, Philippa Heaton, Lisa Higginson, Laura King, Brian Lees, Peter Meadows, Wilma Mulgrew, Helen Parker, Julie Rimmer, John Sedgley, Bill Sherwood, Hayley Smith
Crew and Techs
Ian Bishop, Lloyd Davis, Tim Fantom, Michael Head, John Horobin, Alan Jamieson, Howard Rogerson, Jane Thomas – Crew
Paul Muller – Lighting
Simon Birchall, Lesley Mitchell – Sound
Winnie Meadows, Jeanette Wood – Wardrobe
Rosemary O’Brien – Props
Yvonne Hutley – Prompt
Production Team
Samantha Marshall
David McKnight
Andrew Goff
Nick Head
Gordon Fletcher
Cowboy Band
Paul Bennett, Judith Casterton, Peter Cresswell, Sarah Cresswell, Rosie Curtis, Karen Evenson, George Fletcher, Hailey Gibbs, Anne Grant, Bob Greenlees, Tony Mortimer, Paul Raybould, Eve Stokoe