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Article: `Annie' get your sensitivity training: an updated version.(Arts & Literature)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- July 27, 2006
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Byline: Bob Keefer The Register-Guard
STAGE PREVIEW Annie Get Your Gun What: The 1946 musical about Annie Oakley, updated in 1999; presented by the Oregon Festival of American Music Where: Hult Center's Silva Concert Hall, Seventh Avenue and Willamette Street When: 7:30 p.m. Aug. 5, 8, 9 and 11; 2:30 p.m. Aug. 6 Tickets: $24 to $28; 682-5000
Irving Berlin's musical story of the real-life Annie Oakley has a certain cringe factor for 21st century audiences.
The show, which premiered in 1946 on Broadway and was made into a movie by MGM in 1950, has those cliched redskins whooping it up.
It's got crack shot and uber-feminist Annie Oakley ...