Annie Get Your Gun (musical)

This article is about the 1946 Broadway musical. For the 1950 film, see Annie Get Your Gun (film). For the 1986 West End revival cast recording, see Annie Get Your Gun – 1986 London Cast.

Annie Get Your Gun
Broadway 1946 Original Cast Album
MusicIrving Berlin
LyricsIrving Berlin
Book
Productions
List
  • 1946 Broadway
  • 1947 West End
  • 1947 U.S. Tour
  • 1947 Melbourne
  • 1950 Film
  • 1958 Broadway revival
  • 1966 Broadway revival
  • 1975 México
  • 1986 UK tour and London revival
  • 1992 West End revival
  • 1999 Broadway revival
  • 2000 U.S. Tour
  • 2009 London revival
  • 2014 UK Tour
  • 2021 UK Outdoor Revival
  • 2023 London Palladium Concert
Awards1999 Tony Award for Best Revival

Annie Get Your Gun is a musical with lyrics and music by Irving Berlin and a book by Dorothy Fields and her brother Herbert Fields. The story is a fictionalized version of the life of Annie Oakley (1860–1926), a sharpshooter who starred in Buffalo Bill's Wild West, and her romance with sharpshooter Frank E. Butler (1847–1926).[1]

The 1946 Broadway production was a hit, and the musical had long runs in both New York (1,147 performances) and London, spawning revivals, a 1950 film version and television versions. Songs that became hits include "There's No Business Like Show Business", "Doin' What Comes Natur'lly", "You Can't Get a Man with a Gun", "They Say It's Wonderful", and "Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better)".

  1. ^ A number of Internet sources claim that the musical is based on Walter Havighurst's book Annie Oakley of the Wild West, but the book was written in 1954, eight years after the musical was first produced.