There's No Business Like Show Business News

Welcome to BWW's New Daily ON THIS DAY Series celebrating theatrical birthdays, openings and special events that took place on this day in theatre history! Today in 1946, Annie Get Your Gun opened at the Imperial Theatre, where it ran for 1147 performances.

The supremely talented teens in Naugatuck Teen Theatre have done it again. Last year their two productions tied for the top spot on my list of top ten productions by young actors.

A "meat and potatoes" selection of audience favorites and a bonus musical community collaboration - Irving Berlin's beloved "Annie Get Your Gun" - will be highlights of the 2013-14 season for the Las Cruces Symphony Orchestra at New Mexico State University.

From the vault of 20th Century Fox, the 1953 musical classic "There's No Business Like Show Business" will be splashed on the big screen once again Saturday night, giving a new generation the chance to enjoy Ethel Merman, Donald O'Connor and Marilyn Monroe.

Annie Get Your Gun, one of America's most celebrated musicals and composer Irving Berlin's biggest Broadway hit, will come to life again this weekend at the Little Theater at Arkadelphia High School.

On Friday, Aisha Tyler and Rob Schneider will host the 14th annual Golden Trailer Awards at the Saban Theater ; the pre-party starts at 6:30 p.m. Don your cocktail-party attire for a night that honors those who have the power to make crappy movies look amazing: the movie trailer makers.

The 81-year-old, who broke through in 1950s Fox musicals as a blonde bombshell who could act, sing and dance, reflects on a career that is still going strong today.

Naugatuck Teen Theater sings in the spring with one of musical theatre's spunkiest leading ladies with Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun , playing May 4, 5, 10, 11, 12 at Saint Michael's Church Hall at 210 Church Street Naugatuck.

The new partnership of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II changes the face of Broadway forever, beginning with the record- breaking Oklahoma! in 1943, featuring a landmark ballet by Agnes De Mille.