AUBURN – Auditions for “Annie Get Your Gun,” the concluding show of Lewiston-Auburn Community Little Theatre’s 67th season, will be held at 7 p.m. Sunday and Monday, June 3-4, at Great Falls Performing Arts Center.
David Lock is director with Kathleen Cutler as music director and Vincent Ratsavong as choreographer. The show will run Aug. 10-19.
“Annie Get Your Gun” scored a bull’s-eye when it returned to Broadway in 1999, starring Bernadette Peters and sporting a revised libretto by Tony, Oscar and Emmy winner Peter Stone.
The show runs Aug. 10-19.
Stone reshaped and adapted the 1946 book by Herbert and Dorothy Fields 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. He added a secondary romance between the younger sister of Frank’s bothersome assistant Dolly and a boy who is 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 Irving Berlin’s famous score, featuring 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.”
Roles to be cast include the following:
Annie Oakley, strong alto with comic acting ability, 12 vocal numbers
Frank Butler, strong baritone, 7 numbers
Buffalo Bill, baritone, one vocal number
Dolly Tate, Frank’s assistant, minimum vocal
Minnie Tate, Dolly’s sister, two vocal duets with Tommy, her boyfriend
Tommy, part Native American and Minnie’s boyfriend, two vocal duets with her
Charlie Davenport, business manager of the Wild West Show, one vocal
Jessie and Nellie, Annie’s sisters with singing parts
Little Jake, Annie’s brother with a singing part
Pawnee Bill, Buffalo Bill’s rival
Sitting Bull, an Indian Chief who befriends Annie
Cowboys, cowgirls, Indians and Society Women round out the cast. Auditioners who choose to sing a selection not from the show should bring a copy of the music. Wear comfortable clothes for choreography auditions.
The theater is at 30 Academy St., Auburn.
For more information, call 783-0958; or access the theater Web site at www.laCLT.com.
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