CU, Town Hall Productions to present ‘Annie Get Your Gun’

By Joan C. McKinney | 06/11/2013

Campbellsville University’s Theater Department and Town Hall Productions are presenting “Annie Get Your Gun”

June 11, 2013
For Immediate Release

By Joan C. McKinney, news and publications coordinator

CAMPBELLSVILLE, Ky. - Campbellsville University's Theater Department and Town Hall Productions are presenting “Annie Get Your Gun” for five showings July 4-7 at CU's Russ Mobley Theater in the Alumni Building at 114 University Drive, Campbellsville.

The show will be at 6 p.m. July 4; 7 p.m. July 5; 2:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. July 6 and 2:30 p.m. July 7. General admission is $10, but a special price of $7 will be offered from now until Sunday, June 16.

Seniors, military and CU faculty/staff (with ID) will be admitted for $7 and children 12 and under will be $5. You can make reservations by going to campbellsville.edu/theater or call (270) 789-5266.

Irving Berlin's “Annie Get Your Gun” is presented at CU through special arrangement with R & H Theatricals. Peter Stone, Tony, Oscar and Emmy winner, has revised the production from the 1946 book by Herbert and Dorothy Fields.

The Wild West show-within-a-show 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.

Berlin's score features hit after hit, and the New York Post said “Annie Get Your Gun” will “always be a musical for the ages, one of the Broadway theater's enduring triumphs.”

Don Franklin Motors is sponsoring the production.

Campbellsville University is a widely acclaimed Kentucky-based Christian university with more than 3,600 students offering 63 undergraduate options, 17 master's degrees, five postgraduate areas and eight pre-professional programs. The website for complete information is campbellsville.edu.