Auditions are set for, "Annie Get Your Gun" at the Memorial Opera House in Valparaiso.
The NEW PETER STONE VERSION!!!!! This classic has been reworked and is no longer just a one woman show. There are many great principal and featured parts for all the character actors and actresses out there!!!! It is so great ...you definitely don't want to miss your opportunity to be a part of this show!!!!!
ANNIE GET YOUR GUN scored a bullseye when it returned to Broadway in 1999, starring Bernadette Peters and sporting a revised libretto by Tony, Oscar and Emmy winner Peter Stone. As Newsday reported, Stone's revisions "are sweetly ingenious, and the show is a dream." Stone reshaped the 1946 book to create a Wild West show-within-a-show that frames the ageless "Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better" love story of sharpshooters Annie Oakley and Frank Butler. Stone has added a secondary romance between the younger sister of Frank's bothersome assistant Dolly, and a boy who is (to Dolly's horror) part Native American. "The book has been updated in ways that pass p.c. muster," reported Time Magazine, "without losing all the fun." Joined to the new book, of course, is that amazing Irving Berlin score, featuring hit after hit after hit. "Irving Berlin's greatest achievement in the theater," wrote the New York Post, ANNIE GET YOUR GUN "will always be a musical for the ages, one of the Broadway theater's enduring triumphs."
Great songs like: There's No Business Like Show Business, You Can't Get A Man With A Gun, Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better, Doin' What Comes Natur'lly.
Casting 12 Men, 1 boy (Age 8-12) 9 Women, 2 Girls (Ages 8-14) Please bring a prepared song with sheet music. An accompanist will be provided. No a capella or taped music is allowed. There will be a dance audition so bring comfortable clothes to dance in.
The auditions will be held at the Memorial Opera House, 104 Indiana Ave., Valparaiso, at the following dates and times: Monday, April 21st and Tuesday, April 22nd at 7pm.
If you have any questions about the auditions, please contact The Memorial Opera House, 219-548-9137 or email mcraig@mohlive.com . Performances dates are: June 6, 7 8, 13, 14, 15, 20, 21 & 22.