| Author | Message: AGYG (another review with a color photo) | Posted by: "L"
On: 1/8/1999 at 7:23:42 PM GMT
Message #: 537
See headers | this review is from the Baltimore Sun. It is also a positive.
http://www.sunspot.net/cgi-
bin/editorial/story.cgi?section=features&storyid=1000000231351
| | Author | Message: Re: AGYG (another review with a color photo) | Posted by: Eric
On: 1/8/1999 at 7:44:03 PM GMT
Message #: 539
See headers | Could you send that link again? I'm too lazy to type it in. -eric
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> this review is from the Baltimore Sun. It is also a positive.
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| | Author | Message: Re: AGYG (another review with a color photo) | Posted by: CaitlinSD
On: 1/8/1999 at 7:41:42 PM GMT
Message #: 540
See headers | I tried to go, but you have to register for it.......I guess...I could be
wrong, I had trouble getting in.
| | Author | Message: Re: AGYG (another review with a color photo) | Posted by: Eric
On: 1/8/1999 at 7:51:53 PM GMT
Message #: 541
See headers | I couldn't get in either. -Eric
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> I tried to go, but you have to register for it.......I guess...I
could be
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| | Author | Message: Re: AGYG (another review with a color photo) | Posted by: Unison212
On: 1/8/1999 at 8:54:01 PM GMT
Message #: 544
See headers | In a message dated 1/8/99 7:45:03 PM EST, CaitlinSD@a... writes:
> I tried to go, but you have to register for it.......I guess...I could be
> wrong, I had trouble getting in.
>
I was able to get into the site, so here's the article for those of you who
couldn't read it:
Revival: Still no biz like show biz
Review: 'Annie Get Your Gun' takes aim at a musical classic and comes
close to mark. Bernadette Peters brings spunk to `Annie' role
By J. Wynn Rousuck
Sun Theater Critic
Musical: In this revival of "Annie Get Your Gun," it's Bernadette
Peters packing the six-shooters.
It makes perfect sense -- take a musical whose most famous song is
"There's No Business Like Show Business" and accentuate the show-biz
angle.
In revising the 1946 Irving Berlin classic "Annie Get Your Gun" --
currently playing a pre-Broadway run at Washington's Kennedy Center --
librettist Peter Stone has turned the original plot into a
play-within-a-play.
This isn't the only improvement in the revival, which stars Bernadette
Peters as an adorably spunky, love-struck but hard-headed Annie Oakley
(and one who is not only in excellent voice, but performs a remarkably
athletic stunt just before intermission).
"Annie Get Your Gun" started out as a vehicle for Ethel Merman, with a
book by Herbert and Dorothy Fields that was as hokey and old-fashioned
as its sappy love story.
That love story focuses on Oakley and rival sharp-shooting champion
Frank Butler, played here by a gruff Tom Wopat, who admirably holds his
own against Peters, musically and at the trigger.
In its original form, the musical also had a secondary love story, which
disappeared from most subsequent productions. Stone has not only
restored it, but by making the male half of this second couple part
Native American, he has added a touch of political correctness to a show
that once treated the cowboys as good guys and the Indians as bad guys.
(With such correctness in mind, the song "I'm An Indian, Too" is one of
two excised from the production, which also changes the order of some of
the songs.)
The subplot restores two charming numbers, "I'll Share It All With You"
and "Who Do You Love?", the latter given an especially amusing rendition
by the young lovers (winsome Nicole Ruth Snelson and agile, handsome
Andrew Palermo).
But back to the show-biz angle. The musical is now entirely set within
the tent of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, where, as Ron Holgate's
Buffalo Bill explains, he is presenting the story of Oakley and Butler.
The production begins with the Wild West Show's company manager, Charlie
Davenport (a "Hee Haw" hammy Peter Marx) raising the curtain and
subsequently introducing the characters and announcing the scenes.
Fitting as this format may be, it is inexplicably dropped at the end of
the production, which would come to a more satisfying and consistent
conclusion if, for instance, we saw the roustabouts folding up the tent,
just as we saw them raise it at the beginning. (The ending, despite
lacking this reference to the show-within-a-show, does benefit from a
new, less chauvinist resolution to Oakley and Butler's relationship.)
There are other problematic elements. Graciela Daniele's direction drags
at points, such as the coda attached to Peters' opening song, "Doin'
What Comes Natur'lly" -- a coda that merely prolongs the excessively
cute interplay with her character's three young siblings.
In addition, some of the choreography, by Daniele and Jeff Calhoun, is
just plain odd, particularly an overly long military drill performed
with dummy wooden rifles and a hoop dance that exists solely to fill
time between scene changes.
So does "Annie Get Your Gun" hit the bull's-eye? Or, to borrow the title
of one of the many Berlin hits in the show, can "They Say It's
Wonderful"? Not yet, but it's on its way.
Originally published on Jan 8 1999
| | Author | Message: Re: AGYG (another review with a color photo) | Posted by: bernadotp
On: 1/9/1999 at 11:09:10 AM GMT
Message #: 545
See headers | Did anyone see the morning show that Bernadette was supposed to be on? I
was getting ready for school on Thursday morning and I heard them say (I
think it was on Good Morning America, but I'm not sure) that they would
be talking with her later on. Sooo, I put in a tape, but she never came
on. It could have been the morning show on CBS and my dad changed the
channel before I got in there.
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| | Author | Message: Re: AGYG (another review with a color photo) | Posted by: ChloeMiles
On: 1/10/1999 at 9:59:27 AM GMT
Message #: 546
See headers | In a message dated 1/8/99 8:55:18 PM Eastern Standard Time, Unison212@a...
writes:
> This isn't the only improvement in the revival, which stars Bernadette
> Peters as an adorably spunky, love-struck but hard-headed Annie Oakley
> (and one who is not only in excellent voice, but performs a remarkably
> athletic stunt just before intermission).
>
Bernadette doesn't dothe stunt herself! I can't believe this critic was
fooled! And the stunt isn't that amazing - I could it!
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