Considering America's gun problem, is ANNIE GET YOUR GUN incapable of being revived responsibly? — Page 2

"You are either playing to an audience who feels squeamish, or you are playing to right wing gun lovers, and there’s not much grey area."

That is not a remotely true statement - it's your opinion, and a vastly inaccurate generalization. For example, there are plenty of left wing "gun lovers", or as they are more commonly known, gun owners.

When you make statements like this, positing them as fact, then yes, I'd say you are over-reacting. AGYG does not glorify guns. It's a true story (for the most part) of a real woman who took up a gun in order to feed her family, and later came to fame for her skills.

The gender politics of the show as-written are definitely one of the show's problems!

RE: the Merm of it all, I'd love to jump into the time capsule, because her recorded versions of "Lost In His Arms" never work for me. The voice is just too powerful for that lovely, delicate song.

Mr. Wormwood said: "I think it sort of depends on the type of theater group and the community. I don't think it's necessarily irresponsible to perform it. But I do think, for many of the reasons you mentioned, that it will fade more and more into obscurity as the years go on. There are former staples of HS & community theater like Lil' Abner, The Pajama Game, Barnum, No No Nanette, etc that have dropped off big time in terms of numbers of productions mounted. I think Annie Get Your Gun has already headed in that direction and will continue to."

I've actually recently had an idea of revising The Pajama Game; updates and refocusing to give it a stronger pro-labor spin, and some rewrites to modernize the central romances that would make it all less chauvinistic & cringe. There's still a pro-labor message underneath it all, fluffy as it is, and that could work in today's context.

This thread has me thinking if there's a way to do it with Annie Get Your Gun too...sure it's riddled with problems but is there a way to maintain the spirit of the piece while giving it an honest feminist outlook that doesn't require Annie giving her power away? and also to correct the racial stereotypes throughout? Both shows have such great scores and it would be tragic to lose them to time.