Boiler Room Theatre to Open 11th Season with Annie Get Your Gun 2/11-3/12

The Boiler Room Theatre (BRT), Williamson County's resident professional theatre company, opens its 11 th season with Irving Berlin's classic musicalAnnie Get Your Gun opening February 11, 2011 at the theatre, located in the historic Factory at Franklin, 230 Franklin Rd., Building Six, in Franklin, Tenn. for a run through March 12.

This classic musical scored a bulls-eye when it returned to Broadway in 1999 sporting a revised libretto by Tony and Oscar winner Peter Stone.

As Newsday reported, Stone's revisions "are sweetly ingenious, and the show is a dream." Stone reshaped the1946 book to create a Wild West show-within-a-show that frames the ageless love story of sharpshooters Annie Oakley and Frank Butler.

The book has been updated in ways thatpass politically-correct muster without losing all the fun. With its amazing Berlin scoreand lyrics, Annie Get Your Gun will always be a musical for the ages and one of the Broadway theatre's most enduring triumphs. The original book was written by HerbertFields and Dorothy Fields.

"Annie Get Your Gun is about as classic as a musical gets. It contains some of themost familiar songs in musical theatre history," said Director and Musical Director Jamey Green.

"Annie Oakley is one of the most beloved 'musical theatre' characters as well asone of the true great American characters. Of course the musical does play with historicalfacts a bit, but certainly the feel for the period of time certainly comes through. There's awonderful balance in the music between authentic rural American foot-stomping Western and sophisticated Broadway.

The 1999 revival version we are doing is noted for being more 'p.c.' than the original. But what I really like about this version is that it was nicely streamlined, focusing on the love stories without losing any of the feel or scope of thetime period. The new vocal arrangements are sensational, very jazzy. It's great fun. Nothing too deep. And of course, BRT has specialized, since it began, in shows aboutputting on a show and this is one of the very best.

"Annie Get Your Gun stars Nashville theatre veteran Corrie Miller in the title roleof Annie Oakley. Previously at BRT, Miller has starred in a vast array of roles including the Baker's Wife in Into The Woods, Betty Rogers in The Will Rogers' Follies, SisterRobert Anne in Nunsense, and Luisa Contini in Nine. Matt Baugher stars opposite Miller as Frank Butler.

The cast also includes David Arnold, Annette Delatorre, Ara Vito, Brandon McCabe, Marc Mazzone, Phil Perry, Fred Mullen, Joe Levitt, Lindsay TerrizziHess, Dan Ziegler, Laura Amond, Will Sevier, Melissa Silengo, Bryce Conner, Cat Arnold, Scott Stewart, Erica Cantrell, and Lucas Phillips.Performances will be held on Tuesday, Thursday (March 10 only), Friday and Saturday evenings at 8 p.m., with discount Sunday matinees at 2 p.m. on Feb. 20 and March 6. A special Valentine's Day show will be offered on Mon., Feb. 14 at 8 p.m.(special pricing applies; no discounts offered; see website for pricing and details).

Ticket prices are $27 for adults, $25 for seniors (age 60 and up) and students (age13 through college with valid ID, and $21 for children ages 3 through 12. Matinee pricesare $2 less respectively. All Tuesday shows are two-for-one ($27 for two tickets; no other discounts apply).

Tickets may be purchased by calling the Boiler Room Theatre at 615-794-7744 or ordered online at BoilerRoomTheatre.com.

BRT's 2011 season also includes Crimes of the Heart, I Do! I Do!, A Streetcar Named Desire, The 25 th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, The Rocky Horror Show, and Oliver! Season passes are available by calling the Box Office or may be purchased online at BoilerRoomTheatre.com.

 

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