Irving Berlin 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 Park City Singers, conducted by Debra Cook, will perform the works of Irving Berlin, George Gershwin and Cole Porter at St.

When Leon Redbone first came along in the mid-1970s, his laconic performances of vintage blues, jazz, ragtime, country and vaudeville songs struck some folks as campy - at least when viewed through the prism of '70s-era pop music.

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.

Willie Nelson just turned 80 years old in April and Let's Face the Music and Dance was released to celebrate his birthday. It proves two things: A) Willie Nelson can still sing anything, and B) anything Nelson sings will sound like it was always meant to be a Willie Nelson song.

You will have to forgive Hot Club of Cowtown's Elana James. She can create a campfire by playing her fiddle.

At 93, Pete Ferno is as old as jazz and just as cool. Once a month, you'll find him behind a set of drums laying down the rhythms for his performing partner, Art Houle.

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.

Diana Krall has built a memorable career as an interpreter of the music of George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter and their contemporaries, their heyday lasting roughly from the 1930s to the 1950s.

Live music in the evenings, a beautifully-designed venue and a Champagne and cocktail bar will add to the vibrant atmosphere and ensure the Jazz Kitchen is the social hub of the festival.

ANNIE GET YOUR GUN Ouachita Little Theatre 4/18-4/29/2013 ANNIE GET YOUR GUN scored a bulls eye when it returned to Broadway in 1999, starring Bernadette Peters and sporting a revised libretto by Tony, Oscar and Emmy winner Peter Stone .

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.

Raritan Valley Community College's Student Jazz Ensemble will perform in concert Thursday, May 2, at 8 p.m., in the Welpe Theatre at the College's Branchburg Campus.