ANNIE GET YOUR GUN . Songwriter Irving Berlin’s masterwork was one of the most successful musicals of its time and has remained a classic of the American musical theatre.
Dorothy Fields (see Fields Family), after seeing a soldier bragging about the prizes he won at a shooting gallery in coney island, came up with the idea of a musical version of sharpshooter annie oakley’s life. she and her brother herbert first contacted producer mike todd , but he turned...