Gettysburg Community Theatre's ANNIE GET YOUR GUN to Run 11/6-15

Gettysburg Community Theatre, the non-profit 501c3 organization located in the original Elks Lodge building at 49 York Street within the first block of Lincoln Square in historic downtown Gettysburg, will present the Irving Berlin classic musical Annie Get Your Gun with performances Fridays and Saturdays at 7pm and Sundays at 2pm November 6-15, 2015.

This Tony Award-winning musical, which recently enjoyed a Broadway revival starring Bernadette Peters and then Reba McIntyre, tells the fictional love story of Annie Oakley and Frank Butler. The two unlikely lovers meet as Buffalo Bill's traveling Wild West Show comes to town. Annie quickly falls for the dashing Mr. Butler, but he is a little put off by her pistol prowess. In classic Broadway fashion, the couple ultimately falls head over heels for each other when Annie learns she "can't get a man with a gun." The play features some of musical theatre's best show-stopping musical numbers such as "Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better", "Doin' What Comes Naturally", "I Got Lost In His Arms", and of course, "There's No Business Like Show Business". Long considered Irving Berlin's greatest theatrical achievement, Annie Get Your Gun is one of the greatest American love stories.

Bruce Moore, a veteran from such Broadway productions and Broadway national tours as Gypsy, Grease, and My Fair Lady, is directing/choreographing the GCT production of Annie Get Your Gun, which stars Kate Sainer of Hanover as Annie Oakley, Sean Mott of Biglerville as Frank Butler, and Ed Riggs of Gettysburg as Col. Buffalo Bill. Jane Johnston of East Berlin is music directing and piano conducting the live volunteer band for the show. Others in the volunteer cast of children and adults from Pennsylvania and Maryland include: Mikaela Benoit from Biglerville, Jordan Blackburn from Westminster, Edward Gobrecht, Julianna Hazlett, Lucy Heaton, Benjamin Incaprera, Madison Melton, Savannah Stein, Diane Chamless, Hailey Brownley, Betty Brownley from Gettysburg, Linden Carbaugh from Carroll Valley, Andrew Maher and Julie Maher from Thomasville, Curtis Oviatt from East Berlin, Ann Walsh and Steve Huete from Orrtanna, Marc Kleinman and Michelah Wilson from New Oxford, Samantha Haskell from Shippensburg, Jess Shelleman from Fayetteville, Emily Smallwood from Thurmont, Megan Cox, Donald Grannini, Tori Keefauver, Jordyn Keefauver, Alyssa Meyers, and Brenna Yingling from Hanover.

"Annie Get Your Gun stands as one of the most popular musicals from the Golden Age of Broadway", says Director/Choreographer Bruce Moore. "Ethel Merman, the Queen Of Broadway, starred in the title role of Annie in1946 and revived her role as 20 years later in 1966. Through the decades, Annie Get Your Gun has earned its status as one of the great musicals in the American Musical Theatre. I was thrilled to receive my Actor's Equity Card during a production of Annie Get Your Gun at Pennsylvania Civic Light Opera in 1981. I am so proud to direct this show now right here in my home town of Gettysbug."

$18 Limited reserved seating tickets can be purchased online today at www.GettysburgCommunityTheatre.org or by calling 717-334-2692. Coming up at GCT December 3-13, 2015 will be A Charlie Brown Christmas.

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