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Arts & Entertainment

SVPA Presents Annie Get Your Gun

9/29/2011


Show runs Sept 29 to Oct 16. Sept 29 Preview night, Friday and Saturday 7:30, Sunday matinee 2PM.

Bethany University Theater. www.svpaa.org for tickets and info.

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Annie Get Your Gun is a shining example of two of America’s greatest story lines; the "rags to riches" tale, and the tale of the glory of show business. Within its familiar songs, its larger than life characters, and its assertive portrayal of turn-of-the-century America is a tale of two people who battle to overcome their own egos within the harsh spotlight of fame.

Together they manage find a love for each other which was already destined to become legend twenty years before it hit the Broadway stage. This show is the closest thing we have to an American fairy tale and is as much a part of the fabric of Americana as apple pie and baseball.

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Annie Get Your Gun is about the glimmer of the marquee, the heat of the lamp lights, the roar of the crowd, the rustle of the costumes, the thunder of the drum roll, and the spectacle of a love story set against the great American backdrop of the traveling Western show.

The fable of Annie Oakley and Frank Butler is not a fable at all, and here is the chance to see for yourself.

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