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 Annie
Get Your Gun is a story based on fact. The circuses
of Buffalo Bill and Pawnee Bill really did exist in
America, so too did Annie Oakley. Fiction takes over
thereafter to provide a popular musical and gives the
happy ending audiences so enjoy.Annie is a "hick" from Darke County, making a living shooting "quails, wild ducks and grouses," and selling them to boarding hotels. In a township on the outskirts of Cincinatti, in the state of Ohio, she happens along at the same time Buffalo Bill's Circus is visiting the vicinity. Frank Butler, the world's foremost sharpshooter, challenges the local shot to a contest - the local shot in this case is Annie. The show tells the trials and tribulations which follow that meeting right through to its conclusion.
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May we thank Tod Cody very much indeed for kindly loaning us some of his costumes, for which we are most grateful. Thanks also to the passengers and crew of the MV 'Dumaris' for "feather-hunting" on the Hebridean island of Canna in June 1976, thus enabling Chief Sitting Bull to have a decent headdress. |