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Artist: VA
Album: Annie Get Your Gun – The New Broadway Cast Recording (Staring Bernadette Peters)
Genres: Musical, Music
Released: 1999
℗ 1999 Angel Records
Editorial Reviews
This 1999 revival of Irving Berlin’s timeless 1946 musical fantasy depicting the love affair between Wild West sharpshooting stars Annie Oakley and Frank Butler has been somewhat updated for modern times. Not only has Peter Stone made revisions to Herbert and Dorothy Fields’s original book (the story is now a show within a show, namely Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show), but there have been revisions to Berlin’s original score as well. Some of it relates directly to late-’90s political correctness-”I’m an Indian, Too” joins “Colonel Buffalo Bill” and “I’m a Bad Bad Man” among the exclusions. But the tunes that made the cut remain some of the greatest moments of American musical theater, which is especially ironic when one considers that Berlin had to be coaxed into writing the show after original composer Jerome Kern suddenly died. Many of these songs-”They Say It’s Wonderful,” “Doin’ What Comes Natur’lly,” “I Got the Sun in the Morning,” “The Girl That I Marry,” “Anything You Can Do”-have become standards on their own, and the revival thankfully retains the wonderful “An Old Fashioned Wedding,” which Berlin wrote for the 1966 Lincoln Center revival of the show, with original Annie Ethel Merman reprising the role. Years after the fact, Merman remains a tough image to follow. But while she lacks Merman’s brass and crassness, Bernadette Peters stands as the prettiest and sexiest Annie to date, even in the shadows of Mary Martin and Betty Hutton (the latter in the 1950 film version), not to mention probably the greatest singer of the bunch-her “You Can’t Get a Man with a Gun” is an instant Broadway classic. They overdo “There’s No Business Like Show Business” just a tad in this new version; it’s seemingly reprised endlessly early in the CD. But, hey, if you’re going to overdo it, what a song to overdo it with. -Bill Holdship
Product Description
Track List
1. There’s No Business Like Show Business 5:07
2. Doin’ What Comes Natur’lly Bernadette Peters/ 2:14
3. The Girl That I Marry 2:25
4. You Can’t Get A Man With A Gun 4:04
5. There’s No Business Like Show Business (Reprise #1) 1:43
6. I’ll Share It All With You 1:44
7. Moonshine Lullaby Bernadette Peters/ 3:58
8. There’s No Business Like Show Business (Reprise #2) 1:36
9. They Say It’s Wonderful 3:42
10. My Defenses Are Down 3:52
11. Finale Act I: You Can’t Get A Man With A Gun (Reprise) 1:05
12. Entr’acte: The European Tour 1:35
13. I Got Lost In His Arms 4:12
14. Who Do You Love, I Hope? 2:24
15. I Got The Sun In The Morning 4:30
16. An Old Fashioned Wedding 2:32
17. The Girl That I Marry (Reprise) 0:46
18. Anything You Can Do Bernadette Peters/Tom Wopat 3:18
19. Finale Act II: They Say It’s Wonderful (Reprise) 1:09
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