SHOTGUN FORMATION : GROUP STAGING `ANNIE GET YOUR GUN'.Byline: Bhavna Mistry Daily News Staff Writer A musical with a country-western theme comes to the Lancaster Performing Arts Center A performing arts center, often abbreviated PAC, is a multi-use performance space that can be adapted for use by various types of the performing arts, including dance, music and theatre. as Cedar Street Theatre presents ``Annie Get Your Gun'' in the 50th year since its Broadway debut. ``It originally opened May 16, 1946, on Broadway,'' said director Perle Tropp. ``This year will be its 50th anniversary.'' ``Annie Get Your Gun'' is based on the true story of exhibition sharpshooter Annie Oakley An·nie Oak·ley n. A free ticket or pass. [After Annie Oakley (from the association of the punched ticket with one of her bullet-riddled targets).] Noun 1. and her husband, Frank Butler. In the story, Annie, a poor but happy country girl, is spotted shooting birds in the woods. She shoots each with one bullet, directly in the head. She has a match off with Frank - also a famous shooter - and beats him. Her victory gains her a part on Buffalo Bill's Buffalo Bill's is a hotel and casino located in Primm, Nevada, near the California-Nevada stateline. It has 1,242 guest rooms and suites. The hotel is home to the Desperado roller coaster, one of the tallest (225 foot drop) and fastest (80 mph) roller coasters in the world, as Wild West Show, where Annie and Frank fall in love and eventually get married. The musical portrays their courtship courtship paying attention to a member of the opposite sex with a view to mating; occurs in farm animals but is not highly developed other than estral display by the female and seeking by the male, activities that are rather more pragmatic than implied in the definition. and how they learn to give and take. ``It's a show that I've always loved and wanted to do,'' Tropp said. ``It's never been done in the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley , but its western theme is very appropriate.'' The musical will be presented today, Saturday and June 15 at 8 p.m., and June 16 at 2 p.m. at the Lancaster Performing Arts Center, 750 W. Lancaster Blvd. Cost is $16. The cast of 43 - from a 7-year-old to 70-year-old - includes 12 dancers. The show features such musical numbers as ``There's No Business Like Show Business,'' ``Moonshine moonshine Toxicology Illicitly distilled whiskey. See Lead poisoning, Saturnine gout. Lullaby,'' ``I'm a Bad, Bad Man'' and ``They Say It's Wonderful.'' ``This is going to be new to a lot of people,'' said Tricia Randell, 37, of Palmdale, who portrays Annie in the production. ``This isn't seen every day.'' Since taking on the role, Randell has been reading up on Annie Oakley. ``She was a nice lady,'' Randell said. ``A simple country girl who never said a bad word about anyone. Real modest and charming.'' CAPTION(S): 3 Photos Photo: (1--color) Cast members from the Cedar Street The atre production ``Annie Get Your Gun'' rehearse re·hearse v. re·hearsed, re·hears·ing, re·hears·es v.tr. 1. a. To practice (a part in a play, for example) in preparation for a public performance. b. a scene on stage Thursday at the Lancaster Performing Arts Center. (2--color) Tricia Randell, left, as Annie Oakley, and her character's brothers and sisters sing ``What Comes Naturally.'' (3) Lawrence Caird, as Charlie Davenport, manager of the Wild West show, works the crowd from a platform in ``Annie Get Your Gun.'' Jeff Goldwater/Daily News |
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