Annie Get Your Gun

[EvelynOakleigh]

Posted: 5/1/11 at 10:25am

I'm going to be in a production of Annie Get Your Gun, I don't know if we are doing the original or the Bernadette Peters revival version.

I was just curious about what the main differences between the two shows are

[SondheimFan5]

Posted: 5/1/11 at 12:08pm

The difference between the 2 is apples vs. dumptrucks.

The Bernadette version has a completely new book (by Peter Stone), new orchestrations, some different songs/cut songs, new keys, is very feminist, changes the order of some songs, and makes it a little more politically correct by cutting the Indian number. Charlie Davenport has no song in the revival version and Frank has one less song. Tommy & Winnie have one more.

[musicalfan3]

Posted: 5/1/11 at 12:10pm

Also, the revival version is a "show within a show", while the original is a more traditional book musical. I have to say I p-refer the revival's version, but that's just my preference.

[frontrowcentre2]

Posted: 5/1/11 at 12:35pm

Look at the credits for the authors: Peter Stone is credited with book revisions for te 1999 revival.

The original book (1946) by Herb and Dorothy Fields is seldom used now. Mostly when groups request this show from R&H they are given either the 1999 or the 1966 revision (which deletes the secondary characters Tommy and Winnie and and their songs - "Who Do You Love, I Hope" and "I'll Share it All WIth You" and adds a new duet for Annie and Frank "An Old Fshioned Wedding.")

The Stone version cuts the Overture, the original opening number "Colonel Buffalo Bill" and replaces these with "There's No Business Like Show Business." It also eliminates many of the jokes deemed offensive to Indians, and the song "I'm an Indian Too." Unfortunately much of the humour of the original is lost and Stone doesn't find anuything to replace it with.

Compare the song line-up in your script with the one on the 1966 OCR: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000002W1O/ref=dm_dp_cdp?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1304267688&sr=8-8


or the 1999 (Peters) OCR: http://www.amazon.com/Annie-Your-1999-Broadway-Revival/dp/B00000ID42/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1304265530&sr=8-3

Updated On: 5/1/11 at 12:35 PM

[SondheimFan5]

Posted: 5/1/11 at 12:56pm

The STone version still has an overture, it's just slightly revised (Since they no longer have I'm An Indian Too)

[Pit Monger]

Posted: 5/2/11 at 4:13pm

The 1966 Lincoln Certer Revival is my favorite with a sparkling new set of orchestrations by Robert Russell Bennett and Ruth Anderson AND one of my favorite Overtures NOT written by Ralph Burns or Robert Ginzler.

[EvelynOakleigh]

Posted: 5/2/11 at 8:16pm

Thanks so much for the info
I just found out I will be doing the '99 version :)

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 5/3/11 at 1:12am

I thought the original book no longer existed and isn't even lisenced.

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 5/3/11 at 1:20am

husk, I believe it's because most people don't realize that the "original" script that is licensed is actually the version that was revised for the 1966 revival. So when they say "original" versus the Peter Stone/Bernadette Peters 1999 revival what they really mean is the 1966 version versus the 1999 version.

[Jon]

Posted: 5/3/11 at 12:42pm

The '66 version completely eliminated Tommy and Winnie. No great loss. Their songs suck.