Annie Get Your Gun

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION


Annie Get Your Gun - 1986 London Cast is an album from the first London revival of Irving Berlin's musical Annie Get Your Gun, starring American rock musician Suzi Quatro as Annie Oakley and Eric Flynn as Frank Butler.

The revival was a David Gilmore Chichester Festival Theatre production. It toured in the UK and then moved to the Aldwych Theatre in London's West End.

The musical Annie Get Your Gun is based on a book of the same name, written by Herbert and Dorothy Fields. The story covers Oakley's romance with Butler while they were exhibition shooters in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show. In real life, Butler became Oakley's manager when she became the star attraction in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show. Oakley then became the first American female superstar.

Tracklisting:

1. Overture
2. Colonel Buffalo Bill
3. I'm A Bad Bad Man
4. Doin' What Comes Naturally
5. The Girl That I Marry
6. You Can't Get a Man With a Gun
7. There's No Business Like Show Business
8. They Say It's Wonderful
9. Moonshine Lullaby
10. My Defences Are Down
11. Wild Horse Ceremonial Dance
12. I'm an Indian Too
13. I Got Lost in His Arms
14. I Got the Sun in the Morning
15. Old Fashioned Wedding
16. Anything You Can Do
17. They Say It's Wonderful
18. There's No Business Like Show Business



AMAZON
This is a treat. Irving Berlin's joyous musical comedy has been subject to stage cuts each time it has been revived in New York and London since its pre miere in 1946. Here we have all the score on a single CD, a treasure-trove of mu sical abundance given a standout performance under the direction of John McGlinn . The recording gets off to a cracking pace with one of Buffalo Bill's outriders announcing his arrival in town. We then meet the down-to-earth Annie Oakley ("D oin' what comes natur'lly"), who reveals her backwoods upbringing under her bras h exterior in the touching song "They Say It's Wonderful" ("I can't recall who s aid it / I know I never read it"). Annie famously celebrates her camaraderie wit h Frank Butler and Buffalo Bill in "There's No Business Like Show Business", and her subsequent rivalry with Frank in "Anything You Can Do" ("You couldn't beat me in long distance spitting!"). Kim Criswell's portrayal occasionally borders o n the strident, yet there is never any doubt of her commitment to the role, nor that of baritone Thomas Hampson as Frank Butler who gives a terrific performance of "My Defences Are Down". The lesser-known Berlin numbers are all gems, too, f rom Annie's hymn to illicit liquor ("Moonshine Lullaby") to the often cut duets between Tommy and Winnie. A classic all round. --Adrian Edwards.