Annie Get Your Gun

Annie Get Your Gun is a stage musical loosely based on the life of sharpshooter Annie Oakley.

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Stage musical - Annie Oakley

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The music and lyrics were written by Irving Berlin with a book by Herbert Fields and Dorothy Fields. Berlin had taken on the job after the original choice, Jerome Kern, collapsed and died suddenly. It is said that the showstopper song, "There's No Business Like Show Business", was almost left out of the show altogether because Berlin, wrongly, got the impression that his sponsors, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, did not like it.

Related Topics:
Irving Berlin - Herbert Fields - Dorothy Fields - Jerome Kern - Richard Rodgers - Oscar Hammerstein II

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