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9 hrs ago | Daily Sun News - Sunnyside, Washington

Annie Oakley comes to life at SHS

Students at Sunnyside High School this week have been auditioning for the 1999 revival version of the musical 'Annie Get Your Gun.' Irving Berlin wrote the masterful classic, featuring the song 'Anything You Can Do,' popular in commercials as well as the musical.

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Related Topix: Jazz

22 hrs ago | Comox Valley Echo

Three decades of music with 'Ford 7'

Dynamic band "The Ford 7" will entertain audiences with the music of the 1940's, 50's & 60's. At its core, "The Ford 7" features local Victoria musicians Don Leppard - Drums, Joey Smith - Bass, Heather Burns - Piano, Tom Ackerman - Horns, Jimmy Armstrong - Horns and Angela Ireland Ford - Vocals.

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Related Topix: Jazz, Cole Porter

Fri Nov 27, 2009

Hometown News

'Piano' celebrates famed songwriter

When songwriter Irving Berlin died in 1989 at 101, Haley Swindal was 3. She grew up loving the old standards, not knowing how many of the wonderful songs she loved were written by Mr.

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Related Topix: Jazz

Thu Nov 26, 2009

The Independent

First Impressions: Annie Get Your Gun, Imperial Theatre, New York

'Annie, in short, is an agreeable evening on the town.' enlarge A good professional Broadway musical.

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Related Topix: Western, Comedy Movies, Musical Movies, Annie Get Your Gun, Jazz, Ethel Merman, Vocal

Fri Nov 20, 2009

Pepperell Free Press

Harvard Friends of the Arts presents

The Harvard Friends of the Arts presents "Irving Berlin: The Voice of Everyman," featuring vocalists Bobbi Carrey and Will McMillan with Doug Hammer on piano.

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Related Topix: Harvard, MA, Berlin, MA, Drama Movies, Musical Movies, There's No Business Like Show Business, Jazz, Boston, MA

Sat Nov 14, 2009

MediaGuardian.co.uk

Harry Allen: New York State of Mind | CD review

Eleven pieces on a New York theme, to follow up last year's sparkling Hits by Brits album.

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Related Topix: Harry Allen, Jazz

Sun Nov 08, 2009

Jacksonsun.com

Gibson County High School will present 'Annie Get Your Gun'

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.

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Related Topix: Western, Comedy Movies, Musical Movies, Annie Get Your Gun, Theater, Arts, Ohio, Jazz, Education Etc., Belmont University

Fri Nov 06, 2009

Reinbeck Courier

Annie Get Your Gun

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

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, Musical Movies, There's No Business Like Show Business, Jazz, Reinbeck, IA

Wed Nov 04, 2009

New York City's Hometown Newspaper - ...

Johnny Mercer biopic shows golden-age songwriter at his best

Johnny Mercer is the subject of a biopic on TCM that shows why the songwriter belongs among the greatest of the golden age.

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Related Topix: Jazz, Johnny Mercer, Cole Porter, Entertainment, Television

Mon Nov 02, 2009

Tampa Bay Newspapers

Playhouse presents 'Annie Get Your Gun'

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

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Annie Get Your Gun, Western, Musical Movies, Drama Movies, There's No Business Like Show Business, Jazz, Ethel Merman, Vocal, Mary Martin, Opinion

Sun Nov 01, 2009

Village Soup

Sunday WRFR LP radio rpogram schedule for *You*

ROCKLAND : Sunday WRFR LP 93.3fm in Rockland 99.3fm in Camden/Rockport stretching as far as Northport, offering our Program Schedule for you, today.

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Related Topix: Rockland, ME, Camden, ME, Rockport, ME, Jazz, Union, ME

Sat Oct 24, 2009

Daily Express

Annie shoots from the hip

THERE'S no business like show business', runs the classic refrain in Irving Berlin's score to his 1946 Broadway musical Annie Get Your Gun, and the new production of that tunefully terrific show at London's Young Vic is doing business like no show this theatre has had before, opening to its highest advance sale yet.

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Related Topix: Jazz

Fri Oct 23, 2009

The Independent

David Lister: Annie get your (politically correct) gun

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

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, Musical Movies, There's No Business Like Show Business, Jazz, Opinion

Tony's Kansas City

Dave Stephens Jazz Circus Countdown

I don't like much about Kansas City but I'm damn sure that the Dave Stephens Jazz Circus at Jardine's just might be the best thing coming to town this weekend.

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Related Topix: Jazz, Duke Ellington, Arts, Ballet

Wed Oct 21, 2009

The Independent

Annie Get Your Gun, Young Vic, London

The evening generates a certain degree of warmth at moments, so I didn't have what you would call a bad time though, given the following list of objections, this must count as quite an achievement.

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Tue Oct 20, 2009

Variety

Annie Get Your Gun

A Young Vic presentation of a musical in two acts, with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin, book by Herbert and Dorothy Fields, with additional dialogue by April de Angelis.

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Annie Get Your Gun, Western, Musical Movies, Jazz, Little Voice, Music!, Drama Movies, Jane Horrocks, New York

Mon Oct 19, 2009

MediaGuardian.co.uk

Annie Get Your Gun

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.

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Annie Get Your Gun, Western, Musical Movies, Drama Movies, There's No Business Like Show Business, Jazz, Family, Kids

Fri Oct 16, 2009

Commercial Appeal

'Annie' gives actors better shot at stage

When DeSoto Central High School's new production of the Irving Berlin musical "Annie Get Your Gun" opened Thursday night, longtime supporters of the school's award-winning theater program may have noticed some unfamiliar faces in the show's sprawling 30-member cast.

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Related Topix: Short, Comedy Movies, Family, Annie, Musical Movies, Annie Get Your Gun, Western, Theater, Arts, Jazz, Education Etc., Mississippi

Film Threat

the Bootleg Files: Annie Get Your Gun

BOOTLEG FILES 305: 'Annie Get Your Gun' . LAST SEEN: In its one-and-only 1957 telecast.

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Annie Get Your Gun, Western, Musical Movies, Mary Martin, Drama Movies, There's No Business Like Show Business, Jazz, Banking, Broadway Financial, Financial Services, Ethel Merman

Thu Oct 15, 2009

Peace Arch News

Bring on the Broadway hits

Canadian organ/piano wizards Dorothy Watson and Hal Logan will be back at the stage of the Mount Baker Theatre in Bellingham this Sunday with another scintillating revue of 20th century musical gems.

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Related Topix: Family, Comedy Movies, Musical Movies, Hello, Dolly!, Jazz

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