Berlin's Great "Book Show": Annie Get Your Gun (1946)
Class Preparation
- In Broadway :The American Musical, read pp. 208-211
- Handout of Class 4 slides
- Class 4 Selected Lyrics
YouTube Links & Playlists
Playlists:
- Annie Get Your Gun (1955 recording of 12 songs with Ethel Merman members of the 1946 cast)
- Annie Get Your Gun (1957 Recording with Mary Martin & John Raitt--made in conjunction with a live NBC-TV telecast)
- NOTE: The entire 1957 broadcast--105 minutes--is available on YouTube at THIS LINK. This is a black and white kinescope of the broadcast (so not in color as it was shown live). Martin and Raitt are in great voice, and their acting is terrific.
- Annie Get Your Gun (1966 Revival Cast starring Ethel Merman)--if you only have time to listen to one recording this week, listen to this one.
- Annie Get Your Gun (1991 Studio Recording)--Kim Criswell (Annie) and Thomas Hampson (Frank) with the London Sinfonietta and the Ambrosian Chorus, John McGlinn, conducting. Complete recording with original orchestrations.
- Annie Get Your Gun (1999 Broadway Revival Cast Recording)--Bernadette Peters (Annie) and Tom Wopat (Frank)
- Class 4 Videos (shown during class--except for Martin/Raitt telecast, which is available in its entirety above)