25 Jul Annie Get Your Gun set to ride into town at Frinton Summer Theatre
Whip-cracking musical Annie Get Your Gun will bring down the curtain on a brilliant programme of productions by Frinton Summer Theatre.
The show, with its glittering score of toe-tapping songs, is a musical interpretation of the life of sharp shooter Annie Oakley who starred in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West extravaganza.
Irving Berlin’s classic songs There’s No Business Like Show Business and Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better) are just two of the well-known numbers which will delight audiences at the Big Top Tent on Frinton Greensward from August 20th to September 1st.
Frinton Summer Theatre producer and artistic director Clive Brill said: “Once again we’re playing on a traverse stage and this year the big top tent will be bigger and better than ever before.
“Ethel Merman and Dolores Gray initiated the role of Annie in the US and the UK and it has since been played by the likes of Bernadette Peters and Suzi Quatro.”
Tracy Collier is taking over the directorial reins for the family show this year. Annie will be played by Alex Constandinidi with two young local actors, Betty and Albert Miller due to be appearing as Annie’s younger siblings.
The production in the big top will complete this year’s summer season at Frinton Summer Theatre. There is still the chance to catch the The Winslow Boy from July 23rd to 27th, before a double bill when Constellations, the Olivier award-winning West End hit by Nick Payne, partners up with Tim Whitnall’s dark comedy The Sociable Plover between July 30th and August 3rd.
From August 6th to 10th, the theatre will stage Fanny’s Burning, the world premiere of Anton Burge’s bittersweet portrait of the original TV chef Fanny Craddock and her eccentric last days at the BBC. The McGrigor Hall season is concluded between August 13th and 17th with the famous hilarious West End hit Noises Off by Michael Frayn.
Tickets are available now and can be purchased online at Frinton Summer Theatre’s website -frintonsummertheatre.org or by calling the box office at 07946 480071.
