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"ANNIE GET YOUR GUN"

RETURNING TO SYDNEY

The popular and beloved Irving Berlin musical comedy, "Annie Get Your Gun", will commence a short return season at the Empire Theatre on Thursday, 13 July, 1950.

This scintillating musical triumph, since its premiere in Australia at His Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne, in July, 1947, has surpassed all Australian Theatrical records, having played continuously for three years.

"Annie Get Your Gun" is one of the greatest Rodgers-Hammerstein triumphs, and has broken records in every country where it has been staged, including New York, London, Paris, New Zealand and Australia.

"Annie" has already played brief return seasons in Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, and will be staged in Sydney for a short season only, after its season in Melbourne, with a cast headed by Evie Hayes still playing the role of the lovable "Annie Oakley", the sharp-shooting girl from "Dark County".

Sydney audiences will welcome back the case which made "Annie" such an outstanding success at the Theatre Royal; it includes Earl Covert as "Frank Butler", Carl Randall, Sydney Wheeler, Marie La Varre, Donald Kirk, Ann Donald, Beth Dean, Victor Carell, Charles Crawford, and Graham Bent, supported by a full ensemble of Singing and Dancing Boys and Girls.

This farewell season as the Empire Theatre will be the final appearance of "Annie Get Your Gun" in Australia, and will undoubtedly add another triumph to the greatest musical show in the history of the contemporary stage.