*EDMT performed the 1999 revival version of Annie Get Your Gun*.

ANNIE GET YOUR GUN scored a bullseye when it returned to Broadway in 1999, starring Bernadette Peters and sporting a revised libretto by Tony, Oscar and Emmy winner Peter Stone. As Newsday reported, Stone's revisions "are sweetly ingenious, and the show is a dream." Stone reshaped the 1946 book to create a Wild West show-within-a-show that frames the ageless "Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better" love story of sharpshooters Annie Oakley and Frank Butler. Stone has added a secondary romance between the younger sister of Frank's bothersome assistant Dolly, and a boy who is (to Dolly's horror) part Native American. "The book has been updated in ways that pass p.c. muster," reported Time Magazine, "without losing all the fun." Joined to the new book, of course, is that amazing Irving Berlin score, featuring hit after hit after hit. There were several major dance numbers added, also, especially one for "I Got the Sun in the Morning". "Irving Berlin's greatest achievement in the theater," wrote the New York Post, ANNIE GET YOUR GUN "will always be a musical for the ages, one of the Broadway theater's enduring triumphs."

The story is a fictionalized version of the life of Annie Oakley, who was a sharpshooter from Ohio, born in 1860, and her husband, Frank Butler. In the musical, when a traveling Wild West show visits her town, Annie Oakley enters a shooting contest, wins, and is asked to join the show. She has fallen in love with the star of the show, Frank Butler, and agrees to join, although she has no idea what "show business" is--she is informed with the classic song, "There's No Business Like Show Business". Over the course of the musical, Frank, although insisting that the girl he wants will "wear satin..and smell of cologne" ("The Girl That I Marry"), becomes enamoured of the tomboyish Annie. Unfortunately, his ego is bruised and he becomes jealous when Annie becomes a star, and he walks out on her. After various complications, Annie and Frank come together again, only to have one last shooting duel in the finale -- "Anything You Can Do". In the original production and all subsequent versions up until the 1999 revival, Annie deliberately loses to Frank to soothe his ego, and they go off together. In the 1999 revival, the match ends in a tie.

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Cast of Characters

Character		Actor's Name
Annie Oakley		Katherine Sorgea
Frank Butler		Tyler Milliron
Buffalo Bill Cody		Andre Mercer
Charlie Davenport		Matt Provencal
Dolly Tate		Brooke Mercer
Tommy Keeler		Brian Farmer
Winnie Tate		Krista Mackin
Sitting Bull		Jacob Marks
Foster Wilson		Dominic Cardinale
Pawnee Bill		Braiden Wells
Jessie Oakley		Carly Abney
Nellie Oakley		Olivia Kaufmann
Jake Oakley		Cassidy Cagney
Running Deer		Gabe Dubin
Eagle Feather		Stefan Sorgea
Messenger		Sam Dubin
Mrs. Schuyler Adams		Heather Clark
Mrs. Potter-Porter		Bri Lynaugh
Cowboys, Indians, Young Men and Ladies, Kings and Queens of Europe, Dancers, Debutantes, Socialites, Porters, Waiter, Band Leader, and the Singing Cowboy Trio, will be cast from the Ensemble!
		Braiden Wells
		Kyra Wells
		Madelyn Frey
		Renee Beckwith
		Madeleine McConnell
		Laura Finmand
		Monica DiNocco
		Brittany Jones
		Pallavi Nemali
		Stefan Sorgea
		Heather Clark
		Dominic Cardinale
		Ayesha Mazumdar
		Brandon Meyer
		Danielle Badger
		Amy Foulk
		Samuel Dubin
		Miriam Dubin
		Gabriel Dubin
		Asher Dubin
		Jenna Lillywhite
		Amanda Ward
		Jordan Jost
		Caroline Nalewaja
		Kaitlyn Tinsley
		Shane Rush
		Tooka Zokaie
		Savannah Tennyson
		Patrick Nast
		Sarah Gross
		Tiana Murry
		Krista Unverferth
		Sherrika Darnell
		Rachel Parkhurst
		Leah Parkhurst
		Brady Link
		Alexanne Thomason
		Shannon Clavere
		Yara Zokaie
		Michelle Nadra
		Bri Lynaugh
		Aly Chavez
		Alex Levy
		Stephanie Siino
		Courtney Siino
		Sydney O’Brien