REVIEW: Annie Get Your Gun, Union Theatre ✭✭✭✭
Mark Ludmon reviews Annie Get Your Gun at the Union Theatre – “As the song goes, everything about it is appealing and you can’t help leaving with “that happy feeling”.
Mark Ludmon reviews Annie Get Your Gun at the Union Theatre – “As the song goes, everything about it is appealing and you can’t help leaving with “that happy feeling”.
Sheffield Theatres have announced casting for Paul Foster’s new revival of Irving Berlin’s Annie Get Your Gun. Sharp shootin’, smart talkin’ Annie Oakley is a force to be reckoned with. But when she’s pitched against the charming, fiercely competitive Frank Butler, has she finally met her match? Anna-Jane Casey stars as Annie Oakley and Ben Lewis as Frank Butler, with Nicolas Colicos (Buffalo Bill), Mike Denman (Pawnee Bill), Lauren Hall (Winnie Tate), Matthew Malthouse (Foster Wilson), Timothy Quinlan (Charlie Davenport), Cleve September (Tommy Keeler), Maggie Service (Dolly Tate), Karl Seth (Chief Sitting Bull), and completing the ensemble, Josh Andrews, Ronan Burns, Emma Caffrey, Matthew Croke, Omari Douglas, Rosie Fletcher, Melissa James, Jasmine Kerr, Natasha Mould, Jak Skelly, Leah West and Emma Woods (ensemble and Dance Captain). Originally written for Broadway legend Ethel Merman, Irving Berlin’s score is considered a classic, featuring songs including There’s No Business Like Show Business, Anything … Read more
At interval, a local Wimbledon woman, clutching her near comatose husband, as they fled to the the streets said: “It’s shit. He can’t act or sing and there is no point looking at him anymore. She’s good but it is not enough. Not for £30. This is nothing like show business”.
This is first-rate family entertainment. This Annie is a great night in the theatre and comes highly recommended.