Published: August 16, 2007 12:59 pm            

Wohlfahrt to welcome 'Annie Get Your Gun'

Wohlfahrt Haus Dinner Theatre is excited to bring “Annie Get Your Gun” to Wytheville, Va., from Aug. 30 through Oct. 28.

Irving Berlin’s “Annie Get Your Gun” has won multiple awards, including an Academy Award for Best Music and Scoring of a Musical Picture, and a Tony Award for Best Revival. The production is structured as a show-within-a-show, featuring Colonel Buffalo Bill’s traveling Wild West Show that visits the high-spirited sharpshooter Annie Oakley’s home town. Annie enters a shooting competition, is a “dead-eye” shot, and is asked to join the show.

Annie meets her great rival, Frank Butler — the arrogant marksman with whom Annie is left to realize a man isn’t always interested in a woman who can beat him at his own game. Frank insists that the gal he dreams of will “wear satin…and smell of cologne,” but despite himself becomes enamored with the tomboyish Annie.

After a variety of circumstances which keep Annie and Frank apart, they come together again only to have one last shooting duel. Annie realizes there are choices to be made if she wants to win the man she has grown to love.

The show’s score features “No Business Like Show Business,” “Anything You Can Do,” “You Can’t Get A Man With A Gun,” “They Say It’s Wonderful” and “The Girl That I Marry.”

Marrisa Martinez, Shain Fike, Justin Jewell, David Craven, Mathew Frusher, Keith Richards, Clifton Cuddington, Shane Terry, Morgan Rudolph, Heather Camper, Kerry Lambert, Ryan Smith, Elizabeth Gussick, Melissa Hagy, Josiah Blount and Lindsey Nale return to the Wohlfahrt Haus stage in “Annie Get Your Gun.” New to Wohlfahrt Haus are Melina Camille, Shavey Brown, Lindsey Faulkner, Lauren Faulkner, Carrie Lynn Wolford, Joshua Mullins, Kate Feuchtenberger and Austin Harris.

Jill Godfrey lends her years of personal theatrical experience to “Annie Get Your Gun” as director and choreographer. Godfrey also plays Dolly Tate in her Wohlfahrt Haus stage debut.

The musical director is Patrick Nugent, from Florida. Dillon Cody, on loan from the Broadway Dinner Theatre in Wisconsin Dells, Wis., is the stage lighting director, and George Bailey, Mark Webb and Dillon Cody offer sound direction. The set designers and technicians are Jason Beam, Chris DeHart and Rocky Bilbrey, while prop technicians are Justin Jewell and Jessica DeHart.

The menu for the show is a cheese assortment with crackers, fresh garden salad, oven-baked chicken, country-style steak, scalloped potatoes, vegetable medley and peach cobbler.

Wohlfahrt Haus will offer “The Music Man” through Aug. 26.

Performances at Wohlfahrt Haus begin at 8 p.m. on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. Sunday matinees begin at 3 p.m. Dinner is served two hours prior to show time. Select matinees also are offered during the week.

Group rates — including student group rates — are available to any performance. For reservations or more information, please call (888) 950-3382 or (276) 223-0891. Wohlfahrt Haus is online at www.wohlfahrthaus.com.

        

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