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Annie Oakley wasn't just good with her guns. She was "feisty" and "a charismatic go-getter," says Madison Morris, 17, Gibson County High School senior who's playing the role Nov.

"Annie Get Your Gun" was written in 1946 by Irving Berlin and was the very first Broadway show to run for over 1000 performances.

Irving Berlin's "Annie Get Your Gun" is coming to the Francis Wilson Playhouse Wednesday, Nov.

The Irving Berlin musical revue, 'I Love A Piano,' will be performed Friday, Oct.

Those who like musicals will know that Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun has one of the great scores.

Jane Horrocks, front, plays Annie Oakley as a ragamuffin and delivers Berlin's songs with the same accuracy as her marksmanship Photograph: Tristram Kenton Irving Berlin's great musical has been marginalised of late for obvious reasons: its apparently patronising attitude to Native Americans and its dubious sexual politics.

London, Annie Get Your Gun Fiona Mountford's rating Reader rating Description: Richard Jones directs Jane Horrocks and Julian Ovenden in Irving Berlin's musical comedy.

The songs of Irving Berlin, George Gershwin and Cole Porter will come to life when the Opera Company of the Highlands presents "The Great American Songbook" at 3 p.m. today.

Give Irving Berlin 88 keys and a half hour, and he'd come up with a song that would soon have America singing.

With leaden pacing, uninspired direction, clumsily executed choreography and the lack of chemistry among the cast's principals, Annie Get Your Gun --now onstage at the Senior Center for the Arts' Nashville Dinner Theatre--may well be one of the season's biggest disappointments.

Ryan Lammer's grandmother sowed the seeds for his interest in theater. The first Broadway show he actually attended back in the 1980s sealed his fate that theater would be his career.

This slim, attractive performer made a huge hit in the 1961 musical "West Side Story", but was never able to capitalize on his success.

Broadway legend Ethel Merman was famous for a voice that could peel paint off the back wall of a large theater.

That noise you hear coming from the Midwest is an approximation of Ethel Merman's brassy voice.

This blonde dancer and light actress appeared in Hollywood musicals beginning in the early 1950s.

Hugh O'Brian starred in "The Life and Times of Wyatt Earp," which ran on ABC from 1955 to 1961.

The Regional Theatre of the Palouse knows that 'There's No Business Like Show Business,' as it opens its theatrical season in Beasley Coliseum.

Many concertgoers braved the heat to hear Torrance Symphony's annual pops concert at Wilson Park in Torrance Sunday afternoon.

Wrote Jennifer Schuessler in last Sunday's New York Times Book Review, " Pynchon's novel ... comes with an entire soundtrack.

Wrote Jennifer Schuessler in last Sunday's New York Times Book Review, " Pynchon's novel ... comes with an entire soundtrack.