Annie Get Your Gun

Productions4 on Broadway

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Recordings 20 albums held

Licensing 4 entries

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41 passages naming Annie Get Your Gun, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.

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