The play that I am doing is 'Annie Get Your Gun'.
It was written by Irving Berlin, produced by Leslie Asplund, & directed by Richard Jones.
I saw the performance on October 20th at the Young Vic in Waterloo. This play is a musical.
'Annie Get Your Gun' is set back in the days and about how one young lady (Annie) is a excellent shooter. She falls in love with a man (Frank Butler) who just so happens to be a famous shooter himself. When these two meet for the first time, Annie and Frank make a bet. The bet was: whoever can shoot the most targets without missing a single one that person gets $100. Annie is the winner of the bet. Not only did she get $100, but she got to become Frank's partner and go with him on roadshows.
However whether or not both of them want to acknowledge it, Annie is a way better shooter than Frank. Frank also falls in love with Annie, but not before getting jealous of her fantastic shooting. Yet Frank lets his jealousy overcome his love for Annie so he ends up quitting his job. Annie, getting very excited about going to different cities and not wanting her talent to go to waste, she still continues with the roadshows. Unfortunately, her success was her downfall, causing her show to be in debt.
She decided that she wanted to see Frank and by this time Annie had tons of medals for her shooting skills. So when Frank saw them, he got extremely jealous. They end up starting to do the betting thing all over again. This time however, Annie let all the love she felt for Frank come rushing back, so they never did it. Instead, they got hitched!!
My favorite characters were Annie Oakley, played by Jane Horrocks and Frank Butler played by Julian Ovenden. The scene I liked best was when it was towards the ending when everyone was there and Annie and Frank were redoing the bet and they sung 'Anything you can do I can do better'. I like this scene the best because there was so much determination and cockiness towards each other and the lyrics were funny!! Ultz was the set designer and Nicky Gillibrand was the costume designer. My favorite costume was Annie's because they had a lot of thought put into them. Like for example when she was famous, she didn't have a modern dress like the ones you see now-a-days, she had on nice, sparkly, glamorous dresses that people in those times would have worn.
Even though Frank was one of my favorite characters, I didn't like it when he got jealous because I was thinking if you love someone, you shouldn't get jealous when that person is good at something. I also didn't like it when Annie was very cocky about her shooting.
I think this play would appeal to mostly females (since it has romance in it). The females would have to young (17 and below) or older females (45 and up). It would mostly attract females with an ethnicity of British White or American White.
Tuesday, 17 November 2009
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